Give me someone who has lived it," she said. Don't give me somebody who just talks that talk. "I've always said that if I had to go to a detox center for drugs or alcohol or whatever, I'd want a counselor who once was worse off than me. Meanwhile, the stars are expected - in a spotlight - to face their own angels and demons. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness, the statement provided to The Associated Press from singer Wynonna and actress Ashley said. ![]() ![]() ACTRESS GONE Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. "People sit on the edges of their seats waiting to find out what we had for breakfast, and they always ask, 'What do YOU think about THIS?'" Judd's family released a statement announcing her death on April 30. We worship celebrities instead of God," she said. "We don't have a royal family in America, so we've made celebrities our aristocracy. But there are millions of fans who view artists through a celebrity lens - period. Serious country music fans don't expect perfection, she added. More: Country star Naomi Judd took own life, daughter Ashley says in emotional interview More: Naomi Judd memorialized at Ryman Auditorium: '(She) left country music better than she found it' Her mother, Naomi, was a single mother at the age of 18 after her boyfriend Charles Jordan abandoned her. They've got to know that - living all over America like I did, with the two kids, during the U-Haul-it years - some pretty hairy things went down." ![]() "People know that Wynonna was conceived when I was 17 and unmarried. Leading the crowd through those familiar verses, Wynonna ended with her voice cracking but firm: "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever" - with the final word pronounced "FOR-EV-ER." And all the people said, "Amen."ĭuring that 1993 interview, Naomi Judd stressed that anyone who wants to grasp the appeal of country music has to understand that its artists are supposed to sing about all of life, good and bad, "about Sunday morning, as well as Friday and Saturday nights," she said. In her Hall of Fame remarks, Wynonna said a circle of family members had gathered around Naomi's body and recited Psalm 23.
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