Ashley Judd opens up about her mom Naomi’s suicide: No ‘shame or guilt’
Ashley Judd got candid about her mother Naomi Judd’s recent suicide and how she’s trying to heal from the pain.
The “Divergent” star, 54, spoke with grief expert David Kessler on his “Healing” podcast Tuesday about her mental health and how she can “understand” what her mom went through.
“I look back on my childhood and I realize I grew up with a mom who had an undiagnosed and untreated mental illness,” Judd said.
“And there are different behavioral expressions, interactions, flights of fancy, choices that she made that I understand were an expression of the disease.”
Judd added that she knows “that she was in pain and can today understand that she was absolutely doing the best she could.”
She also explained how she knew she “didn’t cause” her mother’s sickness, and she “couldn’t control it” but also “couldn’t cure it.”
Naomi died on April 30 at the age of 76 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after years of battling mental-health issues.