The Saddest and Most Shocking Deaths in Country Music: Jake Flint, Naomi Judd and More

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Gone, but not forgotten. The country music world has lost many of their biggest and brightest stars, from Naomi Judd to Loretta Lynn over the years.The Judds singer’s daughters, Wynonna and Ashley Judd, revealed that their mother died in April 2022 at the age of 76, after a long battle with depression. “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy.

We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” the sisters shared in a statement via Twitter. “We are shattered.

We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory.”Naomi’s death was especially tragic as it came just one day before she and Wynonna were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. “I’m sorry that she couldn’t hang on until today,” Ashley told the crowd at the emotional induction ceremony.The “No One Else On Earth” singer — who announced one month later that she will continue on with the Judds’ planned reunion tour — held back tears during the heartbreaking event. “I didn’t prepare anything tonight because I knew mom would probably talk the most,” Wynonna said at the time. “I’m gonna make this fast, because my heart’s broken, and I feel so blessed.

It’s a very strange dynamic, to be this broken and this blessed. … Though my heart’s broken, I will continue to sing, because that’s what we do.”Ashley later confirmed that Naomi died by suicide while discussing the tragic loss. “She used a weapon … my mother used a firearm,” the Heat star said on Good Morning America in May 2022. “So that’s the piece of information that we are very uncomfortable sharing, but understand that we’re in a position that if we don’t say it someone else is going to.”She continued: “When we’re talking about