Posted: 13:35, 31 August 2022 | Updated: 14:42, 31 August 2022
Country star Naomi Judd was still alive when her daughter Ashley found her with a self-inflicted head injury.
In a harrowing essay in the New York Times, Ashley described how discovering her mother committed suicide in April was “the most overwhelming day of my life.”
“The trauma of discovering and then holding her working body haunts my nights,” she wrote.
But instead of being able to comfort Naomi in her dying moments, Ashley said officers questioned her harshly and kept her away from her mother.
“I felt crushed and weak as the police began to interrogate me while the last of my mother’s life faded,” she wrote, “I wanted to comfort her, telling her how she would see her dad and younger brother as she “I left home ,” as we say in Appalachia.
Ashley revealed the harrowing details as she announced she was taking on a “legal cause” to prevent the public from accessing police records in sensitive and personal situations.
“I intend to make the resulting invasion of privacy – the privacy of the deceased and the privacy of the family – a personal as well as a legal cause,” he wrote.
Naomi died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April 2022 at the age of 76, the Nashville medical examiner’s office confirmed last week.
According to the report, Judd struggled with “significant” anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder.
Ashley Judd (left) with her mother Naomi Judd (center) and sister Wynonna Judd (right)
The country superstar died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April 2022 at the age of 76
Ashley said she was in such a state of shock after finding her dying mother that she answered police questions “I would never have answered another day” and never thought to consider whether the public would later have access to it.
“Immediately after a life-changing tragedy, when we are in a state of acute shock, trauma, panic and anguish, the authorities show up to talk to us,” he wrote, “Because many of us are socially dependent, cooperate with law enforcement law, we are completely unguarded in what we say.’
“I never thought to ask my own questions, like: Is your body cam on? Record again? Where and how will what I share be stored, used and made available to the public?’
Ashley said she did not blame the officers on the scene for their approach, but did blame the “terrible, antiquated interview procedures and methods of interacting with family members who are in shock or trauma,” which she assumed they had been taught.
“The men present left us feeling stripped of all sensitive boundaries, interrogated and, in my case, like I was a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide.”
He argued that records of statements made in moments of distress, when people don’t have the capacity to think about whether they could be made public, should be kept private, saying current laws “de-victimize” family members.
“Family members who have lost a loved one are often re-victimized by laws that can expose their most private moments to the public.”
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title: “Ashley Judd Describes Mum Naomi When She Died Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-05” author: “Jessica Wallace”
Posted: 13:35, 31 August 2022 | Updated: 14:42, 31 August 2022
Country star Naomi Judd was still alive when her daughter Ashley found her with a self-inflicted head injury.
In a harrowing essay in the New York Times, Ashley described how discovering her mother committed suicide in April was “the most overwhelming day of my life.”
“The trauma of discovering and then holding her working body haunts my nights,” she wrote.
But instead of being able to comfort Naomi in her dying moments, Ashley said officers questioned her harshly and kept her away from her mother.
“I felt crushed and weak as the police began to interrogate me while the last of my mother’s life faded,” she wrote, “I wanted to comfort her, telling her how she would see her dad and younger brother as she “I left home ,” as we say in Appalachia.
Ashley revealed the harrowing details as she announced she was taking on a “legal cause” to prevent the public from accessing police records in sensitive and personal situations.
“I intend to make the resulting invasion of privacy – the privacy of the deceased and the privacy of the family – a personal as well as a legal cause,” he wrote.
Naomi died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April 2022 at the age of 76, the Nashville medical examiner’s office confirmed last week.
According to the report, Judd struggled with “significant” anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder.
Ashley Judd (left) with her mother Naomi Judd (center) and sister Wynonna Judd (right)
The country superstar died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April 2022 at the age of 76
Ashley said she was in such a state of shock after finding her dying mother that she answered police questions “I would never have answered another day” and never thought to consider whether the public would later have access to it.
“Immediately after a life-changing tragedy, when we are in a state of acute shock, trauma, panic and anguish, the authorities show up to talk to us,” he wrote, “Because many of us are socially dependent, cooperate with law enforcement law, we are completely unguarded in what we say.’
“I never thought to ask my own questions, like: Is your body cam on? Record again? Where and how will what I share be stored, used and made available to the public?’
Ashley said she did not blame the officers on the scene for their approach, but did blame the “terrible, antiquated interview procedures and methods of interacting with family members who are in shock or trauma,” which she assumed they had been taught.
“The men present left us feeling stripped of all sensitive boundaries, interrogated and, in my case, like I was a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide.”
He argued that records of statements made in moments of distress, when people don’t have the capacity to think about whether they could be made public, should be kept private, saying current laws “de-victimize” family members.
“Family members who have lost a loved one are often re-victimized by laws that can expose their most private moments to the public.”
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title: “Ashley Judd Describes Mum Naomi When She Died Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-05” author: “Ronald Gutierrez”
Posted: 13:35, 31 August 2022 | Updated: 14:42, 31 August 2022
Country star Naomi Judd was still alive when her daughter Ashley found her with a self-inflicted head injury.
In a harrowing essay in the New York Times, Ashley described how discovering her mother committed suicide in April was “the most overwhelming day of my life.”
“The trauma of discovering and then holding her working body haunts my nights,” she wrote.
But instead of being able to comfort Naomi in her dying moments, Ashley said officers questioned her harshly and kept her away from her mother.
“I felt crushed and weak as the police began to interrogate me while the last of my mother’s life faded,” she wrote, “I wanted to comfort her, telling her how she would see her dad and younger brother as she “I left home ,” as we say in Appalachia.
Ashley revealed the harrowing details as she announced she was taking on a “legal cause” to prevent the public from accessing police records in sensitive and personal situations.
“I intend to make the resulting invasion of privacy – the privacy of the deceased and the privacy of the family – a personal as well as a legal cause,” he wrote.
Naomi died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April 2022 at the age of 76, the Nashville medical examiner’s office confirmed last week.
According to the report, Judd struggled with “significant” anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder.
Ashley Judd (left) with her mother Naomi Judd (center) and sister Wynonna Judd (right)
The country superstar died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April 2022 at the age of 76
Ashley said she was in such a state of shock after finding her dying mother that she answered police questions “I would never have answered another day” and never thought to consider whether the public would later have access to it.
“Immediately after a life-changing tragedy, when we are in a state of acute shock, trauma, panic and anguish, the authorities show up to talk to us,” he wrote, “Because many of us are socially dependent, cooperate with law enforcement law, we are completely unguarded in what we say.’
“I never thought to ask my own questions, like: Is your body cam on? Record again? Where and how will what I share be stored, used and made available to the public?’
Ashley said she did not blame the officers on the scene for their approach, but did blame the “terrible, antiquated interview procedures and methods of interacting with family members who are in shock or trauma,” which she assumed they had been taught.
“The men present left us feeling stripped of all sensitive boundaries, interrogated and, in my case, like I was a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide.”
He argued that records of statements made in moments of distress, when people don’t have the capacity to think about whether they could be made public, should be kept private, saying current laws “de-victimize” family members.
“Family members who have lost a loved one are often re-victimized by laws that can expose their most private moments to the public.”
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title: “Ashley Judd Describes Mum Naomi When She Died Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-19” author: “Barbara Young”
Posted: 13:35, 31 August 2022 | Updated: 14:42, 31 August 2022
Country star Naomi Judd was still alive when her daughter Ashley found her with a self-inflicted head injury.
In a harrowing essay in the New York Times, Ashley described how discovering her mother committed suicide in April was “the most overwhelming day of my life.”
“The trauma of discovering and then holding her working body haunts my nights,” she wrote.
But instead of being able to comfort Naomi in her dying moments, Ashley said officers questioned her harshly and kept her away from her mother.
“I felt crushed and weak as the police began to interrogate me while the last of my mother’s life faded,” she wrote, “I wanted to comfort her, telling her how she would see her dad and younger brother as she “I left home ,” as we say in Appalachia.
Ashley revealed the harrowing details as she announced she was taking on a “legal cause” to prevent the public from accessing police records in sensitive and personal situations.
“I intend to make the resulting invasion of privacy – the privacy of the deceased and the privacy of the family – a personal as well as a legal cause,” he wrote.
Naomi died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April 2022 at the age of 76, the Nashville medical examiner’s office confirmed last week.
According to the report, Judd struggled with “significant” anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder.
Ashley Judd (left) with her mother Naomi Judd (center) and sister Wynonna Judd (right)
The country superstar died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April 2022 at the age of 76
Ashley said she was in such a state of shock after finding her dying mother that she answered police questions “I would never have answered another day” and never thought to consider whether the public would later have access to it.
“Immediately after a life-changing tragedy, when we are in a state of acute shock, trauma, panic and anguish, the authorities show up to talk to us,” he wrote, “Because many of us are socially dependent, cooperate with law enforcement law, we are completely unguarded in what we say.’
“I never thought to ask my own questions, like: Is your body cam on? Record again? Where and how will what I share be stored, used and made available to the public?’
Ashley said she did not blame the officers on the scene for their approach, but did blame the “terrible, antiquated interview procedures and methods of interacting with family members who are in shock or trauma,” which she assumed they had been taught.
“The men present left us feeling stripped of all sensitive boundaries, interrogated and, in my case, like I was a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide.”
He argued that records of statements made in moments of distress, when people don’t have the capacity to think about whether they could be made public, should be kept private, saying current laws “de-victimize” family members.
“Family members who have lost a loved one are often re-victimized by laws that can expose their most private moments to the public.”
