Ashley Judd: Grief, Love and Naomi
Update: 2024-01-106
Description
When Naomi Judd died by suicide in 2022, after a long struggle with mental illness, her daughter Ashley found her. In this deeply moving, revealing, and insightful conversation Ashley Judd talks about the trauma she has worked hard to face, the grief she now feels, and how her mother’s spirit is still very much alive in her life.
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What Ashley said about trauma spoke to me. We found out my mother has terminal cancer and 6 months to live. "live" isn't the correct word. She slowly and painfully died for 5 months. Nothing prepares you for that horror. It was months of watching such pain and suffering. Ashley's words, about the trauma resonates with me. One of the difficulties I have is that unless you have experienced this type of suffering, people have no idea and can sometimes minimize it.