Naomi Judd, country icon, suicide with a firearm - Lifestyle

Naomi Judd, the country legend who died on April 30 at the age of 75, committed suicide.

She announced her daughter Ashley, in an interview with "Good Morning America".

"He used a gun. My mom used a gun," Ashley said. "Something that we as a family made it uncomfortable to reveal, but then we said to ourselves that if we didn't, she would. somebody else".

Actress and activist of the #MeToo movement, Ashley Judd is still in shock: it was she who found the lifeless body of her mother and she is still shocked by the trauma.

Ashley, with her sister Wynonna, is one of Judd's two daughters.

Wynonna sang with her mother in the popular duo The Judds.

Naomi suffered from depression and her daughters, announcing her disappearance, had mentioned the "mental illness" of her mother: "

Today we sisters have experienced a tragedy.

We have lost our beautiful mother to mental illness and we are devastated.

We are sailing in uncharted waters. "The statement did not, however, indicate a cause of death. Naomi's husband, Larry Strickland, had asked the public to respect the privacy of the family. Naomi, in turn, had spoken of her struggle with the 'dark evil'. in a 2016 memoir titled "River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope." As part of The Judds duo, Naomi and Wynonna had amassed 14 number one songs over the years including "Mama He's Crazy "," Why Not Me "," Girls Night Out "and" Rockin 'With the Rhythm of the Rain. "They stopped singing as a couple when Naomi, in 1991,

she had fallen ill with hepatitis, but had recently returned to the Nashville stage for the CMT Music Awards with a version of their 1990 hit "Love Will Build a Bridge," accompanied by a choir of gospel singers.

A few days ago Naomi was received posthumously in the Country Music Hall of fame: "She did not come to personally welcome this honor", said Ashley: "This is the level of catastrophe that was brewing inside her: the lies that the disease he said they were too convincing. "

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