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Wynonna and Ashley Judd admitted in their new docusary that they had a complicated relationship with their late mom. Naomi Juddhe also dealt with her own trauma on the road to success.
In A&E Docuseries, “The Judd Family: Mr. Truth,” the sisters were opened up about the first three episodes of growing up with a young mom, the abuse they experienced from one of their mothers’ exes as children, and went home to Kentucky, dealing with how Wynonna and Naomi treated Superstardom in country music.
“I loved her more than I loved myself, but my mother was afraid of me because she was in love with me and expressed her inability to control things I didn’t know,” Winona said at the beginning of the docusary.
Wynonna believes Naomi Judd’s “generational trauma” was likely never fixed
Winona said she believes her mother’s suicide will blame the “intergenerational trauma” her mother has experienced.
Wynonna Judd recalls her final performance with mom Naomi: “She was very vulnerable.”
Seen here with her mother in 1992, Winona and Ashley Judd acknowledged in their new docusary that they had a complicated relationship with Naomi Judd. (Ke.Mazur/WireMage)
“One of the reasons why Mom decided she left this world is because of trauma, generational trauma, families that were not healed or corrected,” Winona said in the first episode of the show.
Growing up, Naomi Judd had a judgemental mother. Her younger brother died as a child of Hodgkin lymphoma and was a teenage mom when she gave birth to Winona.
Winona called her closeness with her mother “blessings and burdens.”
“As a child, she didn’t get what she needed,” Winona said. “That’s true.”
However, she admitted that she was “not allowed to be a child.”
“I was an adult,” Winona said of her relationship with her mother.
Ashley added that she lived with a “constellations of suffering,” whose mother was caught up in severe depression before her death.
“I loved her more than I loved myself, but my mother was in love with me and was afraid of me because it represented things I couldn’t do and couldn’t control anything I didn’t know.”
Winona said that from a young age, Naomi had always sought approval from her mother. He judged her as a child by loving the audience.
“It wasn’t about ego, grandeur and self-importance,” Ashley revealed. “It was actually much more humble than that. It was about basic self-worth.”
Naomi He died of suicide April 2022.
In 2002, his mother, Ashley and Winona. (Kevin Winter/Imageddirect)
Naomi’s ex-boyfriend once hung Ashley through the bedroom window with her ankles
After splitting from her father, her mother met a man Winona described as “creepy,” Ashley and Winona said.
“Mom had a really, really healthy boyfriend,” she explained. “She saw him as James Dean. The reality is that he’s not James Dean. He’s a creepy guy.
“I was old enough to know something was wrong, and I remember very much knowing this guy was watching us in the bathtub.
Winona said her mother is often not at home, and she “protects Ashley incredibly and incredibly.”
Ashley said at one time that the live-in boyfriend discovered that the girl had written on the wall, “and he was wandering around the bedroom window with my ankles.”
Ashley, Winona Judd and his stepfather, Larry Strickland, weeks after Naomi Judd’s death in 2022. (Mickey Vernal/Getty Images)
Naomi wrote in her memoirs about how they moved from them to an apartment across the street after breaking up with him so he could steal her.
One night she says she discovered someone was inside her house. As she entered, she grabbed her with a deep anger and demanded that she know if she was with another man.
“When he was raping me, I prayed that he wouldn’t kill me because he wasn’t killing me,” she wrote.
Ashley says she petted herself for many of her childhood.
Ashley added that “no one had to take care of me” because she felt “abandoned” by her parents as a child and everyone thought she was “a very capable child.”
Naomi’s widow, Larry Strickland While he toured the road with Naomi and Winona, Ashley said he was left alone.
“Ashley, I certainly felt left out. You know, she suffered, she suffered for that. It changed her,” Strickland said in the docusary.
She moved with her father in her third year of high school, but she said he wasn’t home much and was also taking drugs.
Winona called her closeness with her mother “blessings and burdens.” (A&E)
“My prophecy is a valid reason to abandon me from this belief that I was this very capable child. So no one needed to care for me, and both my parents had those beliefs.”
She also recalled working with chicken pox in her motel room when she was a young girl.
“Mom was working and I was out at night so I was in this strange place with Chicken Pox. I was always asleep,” Ashley said.
Naomi was back in Kentucky with the girls of the time, but before she and Winona found success in music, she still struggled with a 9-5 job.
“It was a childhood depression game,” Ashley said.
“I just watch the commercials, take out the advertised cleaning products and copy what I saw on TV,” Ashley recalls taking care of herself at the motel.
Ashley Judd said that the mother’s love for the audience is not about ego, and not about “basic self-worth.” (A&E)
When she was 14, Ashley was sent to a Japanese model where she said she was raped twice.
When her mother later learned about the attack from Ashley’s diary, Naomi mentions the man who raped her as “boyfriend” and says she “s” the idea.
“But I was a little girl. I was not a participant. I was a victim. I have no consent. Mama and I had a lot of conversations later in life,” Ashley said. “And her understanding of sexual assault and rape was not a perspective she grew up and evolved. She had no information and perspective.
“So her reaction came to me. I was closed. My own experiences and reality were invalid and denied.
“One of the reasons why I decided I left this world is because of trauma, generational trauma, and families that are not healed or fixed.”
But she added that Her mother’s experience “Explained, not explanation. Everyone was trying their best.”
Winona says she didn’t accept sexuality on stage as she was closed after being abused at age 12
Judd’s music director Dan Potter said he understood why Winona struggled with her weight in her singing career.
“She wanted it to be unattractive,” he told the documentary’s producer. “It happened to her that didn’t want to be attractive to her.”
“I was molested at 12 o’clock, so my sexuality was really engraved. “So I literally carried weight, and figuratively.”
She said her weight arrived because food became “slow” like drugs and alcohol, but it became a problem after she and her mom were successful as a country duo.
Naomi Judd is the father of her first husband, Michael Siminera, Winona, Center, Ashley, and the father of Ashley in the lower right. (A&E)
“Mummy was very hard on me,” she said. I remember that conversation very well. ”
Winona pointed out that it was similar to what her grandmother told her mother she grew up in.
“That’s why I’m going to get so mad because I knew it was handed down,” she added.
She said her mother’s sexuality “has made her sexuality on stage so much worse.
“She was 36. She was ready to go on fire,” Winona laughed. “She drips down as the kids today say, she was ready to squeal with her foxy.
She hoped that her bond with her mother would be in harmony like their music, but added that she had “a lot of dysfunction.”
Naomi and Winonajad performed in 1988. (Ebbett Roberts/Redferns)
Larry Strickland was “jealous of junk” Naomi’s success early on.
Strickland, a musician, admitted in the documen that he was “jealous of junk” early in Naomi’s success.
Naomi wrote Her memoir After she discovered that she was their song “Mama is crazy,” Strickland rose to her feet and walked out the door.
“I was jealous of her crap, you know,” the 76-year-old admitted his late wife.
Naomi took place in a docusary that “leave me” when she found out that “Mama is crazy.”
In her memoir, Naomi wrote that in 1979 he met Strickland when his gospel group Stamp Quartet entered the building where Nashville’s secretary was.
The group was touring with Elvis Presley for the last three years of his life.
“I mean, it was like love at first sight and almost love,” Strickland said of Naomi in the Docusary.
He said he had no money at the time, and he started his own band, Memphis.
“I was trying to find my way,” he said. “Naomi, she was a profiter. We were poor in dirt. It was a time to try and very try.”
Strickland said Naomi would work in her new job as a nurse in the middle of the night, and she knocked on the door to a music queue in Nashville during the day.
“So she was doing it all,” he said.
Naomi Judd and her husband Larry Strickland in 2005. (Harry Langdon/Getty Images)
“Only a handful of people can pass through it [into the industry]He added.
After years of hard work, Naomi and Winona met Nashville producer Brent Maher in nursing and then got a big break after signing with RCA Records in 1983.
“If you can imagine all the years of years in which Naomi fights, every meeting, every ‘no, it had to be phenomenal’, they said when they signed with the RCA.
Naomi wrote in her memoir that one night, while she and Winona were on the road, Strickland was called long distances.
“He wanted to change his life,” she wrote of Strickland. “I’m down the road. I love you, so I ask you to marry me. What’s your answer?”
“I was just funny, but I said, ‘How do you want my people to be buried?”,” Strickland told the producers at Docusary. “That’s an old proverb.”
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In her memoir at the time, Naomi wrote, “We didn’t have the best years of our lives, we had the best years not only professionally, but also personally.”
Strickland and Naomi married in 1989 and remained married until their death in 2022.
