Wynonna Judd’s CMT Awards tribute to late ‘mama’ Naomi: ‘You need to be here’
nypost.combelted out a rendition of Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” accompanied by superstar Ashley McBryde, 39. “Mama, you need to be here,” said Judd about midway through the performance. “And I miss you, and I love you, and I don’t understand.”The elder Judd died by suicide at age 76 on April 30, 2022, the day before she and her daughter were slated to join the Country Music Hall of Fame.“Today we sisters experienced a tragedy.
We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” Wynonna and her sister Ashely said in a statement at their mother’s passing. “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.”Wynonna later opened up about the pain she was feeling following her mother’s death. “There is so much happening in the world right now.
So before I sat down to write this, I thought, ‘No … I just don’t know what to say.’ Then, I heard the words from my life coach asking me, ‘What do you know?’ And I began to cry,” Wynonna said in an Instagram post.
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