Naomi Judd

Naomi Judd recorded and performed with daughter Wynonna. She was also the mother of actress Ashley Judd.

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"Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness. We are shattered," Ashley Judd said in a statement on ...

Their first single, "Had a Dream (For the Heart)," released in 1983, reached No. 17 on the Billboard country chart. After the birth of her two daughters, the family moved to Tennessee, where Naomi Judd worked as a nurse. a potentially chronic and deadly viral illness, forced Naomi Judd to retire from performing in 1990. "We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public," the statement added. during an appearance on "Good Morning America," saying she had been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety. "Today we sisters experienced a tragedy.

Naomi Judd — the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds, and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd — has died, aged 76.

She had been admitted to a psychiatric ward at a hospital and spent time in an outpatient treatment program. We are in unknown territory." "This is heartbreaking news! "Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. "We are shattered. Naomi Judd — the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds, and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd — has died, aged 76.

Her daughters Wynonna and Ashley announced her death in a statement.

After rising to the top of country music, they called it quits in 1991 after doctors diagnosed Naomi Judd with hepatitis. Because Naomi was so young looking, the two were mistaken for sisters early in their career. Born Diana Ellen Judd in Ashland, Kentucky, Naomi was working as a nurse in Nashville, when she and Wynonna started singing together professionally. They also made a return to awards shows when they performed at the CMT Music Awards earlier this month. The mother-daughter performers scored 14 No. 1 songs in a career that spanned nearly three decades. We are in unknown territory."

Updated April 30, 2022 at 5:56 PM ET. Naomi Judd, part of the Grammy-award winning country music duo The Judds, is dead at 76. Judd's daughters, country singer Wynonna and actress Ashley Judd, confirmed the artist's death in a statement on Saturday.

"The doctors all said that I was gonna die in three years, and that was in 1990," Judd told NPR in 2010. As a member of The Judds with her daughter Wynonna, Naomi Judd recorded and performed as one of the most successful mother-daughter acts in country music before the group stopped performing in the early 1990s. "I told them I wasn't gonna kick the bucket. Naomi Judd was born Diana Ellen Judd on January 11, 1946, in Ashland, Ky. and gave birth to Wynonna the week of her high school graduation. "All of a sudden, before I know what's going on, she has attached herself vocally to me, and it's as if it we're one voice." The group would go on to release six studio albums between 1984 and 1991, earning 20 Top Ten hits, five Grammy Awards and nine Country Music Association awards.

Naomi Judd, who topped the country music charts in the 1980s and early 1990s with her daughter Wynonna in the Grammy-winning singing duo the Judds, ...

She moved back to Kentucky in the mid-1970s as a single mother, encouraging her daughters in their artistic interests. “I literally couldn’t leave the house for weeks,” she told People magazine in 2016. At the height of their popularity, in 1991, the Judds stopped performing after Naomi Judd was diagnosed with hepatitis C, which she was believed to have contracted when she was a nurse. She chronicled her struggle in several books, including a candid 2016 memoir, “River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged With Hope.” After Naomi Judd’s first retirement in 1991, she had several television and film acting roles. She had her first child, Christina (who later changed her name to Wynonna) the week she graduated from high school at 18. We’d sit around the supper table and just sing to pass the time.” Ms. Judd, who later took the name Naomi from a favorite biblical character, grew up in a family marked by trauma, including murder and suicide. “When we got into country music, I was 35,” Ms. Judd told the Dallas Morning News in 1994. She and Wynonna periodically reunited as the Judds, including at a halftime performance of Super Bowl XXVIII in 1994. By the time I got into country music, I feel like what I did was just communicate.” The guy who got me pregnant left town when he found out I was pregnant.”

The Judds were to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday.

We are in unknown territory." The mother-daughter performers scored 14 No. 1 songs in a career that spanned nearly three decades. "We are shattered.

Naomi Judd, the singer for the country music duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died suddenly at age 76.

Youthline: 0800 376 633 (24/7) or free text 234 (8am-12am), or email [email protected] We are in unknown territory." Samaritans: 0800 726 666 (24/7) Depression Helpline: 0800 111 757 (24/7) or text 4202 "We are shattered. "Today we sisters experienced a tragedy.

We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” the daughters' statement said. “We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that ...

Our hearts go out to her husband Larry, daughters Wynonna and Ashley, and her legions of fans around the world during this difficult time.” They were scheduled to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame this weekend and announced a “Final Tour” to begin in September of this year. Alongside her daughter Wynonna, the two formed the country-music duo the Judds in 1983.

The death of Naomi Judd just one day before her induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame has cast a pall over Sunday's ceremony -- but the show will go ...

Between 1984 and 1991, The Judds won five Grammys and had 14 No. 1 singles, per the Hall of Fame. "We are in unknown territory." It's unclear how the ceremony might be changed or adjusted in the wake of Judd's passing.

The country music duo, made up of Naomi and Wynonna Judd, was to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday.

It was to begin in the fall. I’m too old to grow up now!’” The country music duo, made up of Naomi and Wynonna Judd, was to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday.

In the years before her death, Naomi Judd was candid about her battle with suicidal ideation, panic attacks and the ups and downs of her mental health.

Medications caused her face to swell and her hair to fall out, she said in 2016. The struggle eventually led her to advocate for others. I’m always afraid I’m going to leave my wig in the car or at home. And I’ll sew hair inside across the back of my hats, so it looks like real hair,” she told People. Naomi Judd also went through her own physical struggles while trying to manage her depression. Judd said that she was immobilized during her depression as her muscles atrophied from lack of movement. However, through the filming of the documentary, the pair grew apart, according to People. "I had to go into serious treatment, and it was a long road — an incredibly painful road. But what the crowds of adoring fans didn't see was the mental health struggles that followed when the tour ended. We’ve been through a lot of therapy together,” she said. Judd died on Saturday at the age of 76. We are in unknown territory," Judd's daughters in a statement on Saturday.

The Judds and Ray Charles among inductees in Nashville a day after singer dies at 76.

Bayers, a drummer in Nashville for decades who worked on 300 platinum records, is a member of the Grand Ole Opry band. “We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” her daughters, Wynonna and Ashley, said. Ray Charles was also to be inducted, in a showcase his genre-defying country releases.