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Ashley Judd is opening up about discovering her mother Naomi after her suicide in April.

Judd, 54, described “the most shattering day of [her] life” in a personal essay in the New York Times , recalling finding her mother still alive and holding her.

“The trauma of discovering and then holding her laboring body haunts my nights,” Judd wrote.

While all Judd wanted to do was comfort her mom, law enforcement officers began interviewing her and kept her away from Naomi during the last moments of her life, leaving her feeling “cornered and powerless.”

“I wanted to be comforting her, telling her how she was about to see her daddy and younger brother as she ‘went away home,’ as we say in Appalachia,” Judd said. “Instead, without it being indicated I had any choices about when, where and how to participate, I began a series of interviews that felt mandatory and imposed on me that drew me away from the precious end of my mother’s life.”

Judd felt as though the officers were making her out to be a “possible suspect” just moments after she found her mother’s body.

“The men who were present left us feeling stripped of any sensitive boundary, interrogated and, in my case, as if I was a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide,” she recalled.

Naomi died by suicide at 76 years old from a self-inflicted gun wound on April 30 after years of struggling with mental illness.

In the months since Naomi’s passing, many details of her death have been released to the public, including videos, images and family interviews, and Judd is now fighting to get her family privacy. 

“I don’t know that we’ll be able to get the privacy we deserve…I do know that we’re not alone,” Judd said in her essay. “We feel deep compassion for Vanessa Bryant and all families that have had to endure the anguish of a leaked or legal public release of the most intimate, raw details surrounding a death.”

While Judd acknowledged that there is a need for law enforcement to investigate, she believes there’s no way to justify the release of certain materials .

“Not only does making such material public do irreparable harm to the family; it can act as a contagion among a population vulnerable to self-harm,” she said.

“When we are allowed time to process trauma and heal and to disclose its causes at our discretion, we can become effective public advocates. But people should never have to share their wounds with the public before they are ready — if ever,” she added.

An autopsy report from the Nashville medical examiner’s office said Naomi had a medical history of struggling with “significant” anxiety, as well as depression, bipolar disorder, chronic idiopathic pneumonitis, hepatitis C, hypertension and hypothyroidism.

“Naomi lost a long battle against an unrelenting foe that in the end was too powerful to be defeated. I could not help her. I can, however, do something about how she is remembered,” Judd wrote.

“She should be remembered for how she lived, which was with goofy humor, glory onstage and unfailing kindness off it — not for the private details of how she suffered when she died.”

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 1-888-NYC-WELL for free and confidential crisis counseling.

If you live outside the five boroughs, you can dial the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention hotline at 1-800-273-8255 or go to  SuicidePreventionLifeline.org .

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Ashley Judd Explains Family's Legal Petition for Privacy in Wake of Mother Naomi Judd's Suicide

"I felt cornered and powerless as law enforcement officers began questioning me while the last of my mother's life was fading," Ashley Judd wrote in an essay for The New York Times on Wednesday

Ashley Judd is calling for change following the death of her mother Naomi Judd .

In a guest essay for The New York Times on Wednesday, the Double Jeopardy star, 54, opened up about how the aftermath of her mother's suicide has made her take legal action to protect grieving families from unwarranted intrusion into their private lives.

"The trauma of discovering and then holding her laboring body haunts my nights," Ashley wrote in The New York Times about her mother's April 30 death, adding that it was "the most shattering day of my life."

"Naomi lost a long battle against an unrelenting foe that in the end was too powerful to be defeated. I could not help her," she continued. "I can, however, do something about how she is remembered. And now that I know from bitter experience the pain inflicted on families that have had a loved one die by suicide, I intend to make the subsequent invasion of privacy — the deceased person's privacy and the family's privacy — a personal as well as a legal cause."

Ashley continued by recalling the moments after her mother's death when the actress was taken to four separate interviews with law enforcement.

"In the immediate aftermath of a life-altering tragedy, when we are in a state of acute shock, trauma, panic and distress, the authorities show up to talk to us," she wrote, adding that she was too shaken to think through her answers or even begin to consider her own questions about privacy.

"I felt cornered and powerless as law enforcement officers began questioning me while the last of my mother's life was fading," she added. "I wanted to be comforting her, telling her how she was about to see her daddy and younger brother as she 'went away home,' as we say in Appalachia."

Ashley added that she was also trying to "decode" what had happened to herself as well, and so "shared everything" with law enforcement in a way to piece it all together.

The actress acknowledged that it wasn't the police officer's fault that this happened, saying the "police were simply following terrible, outdated interview procedures." Yet she added that the experience left her feeling interrogated, stripped of sensitivity and even considered a possible suspect in her mother's suicide.

The Bug star then explained her family's decision to file a petition to seal the death investigation on Aug. 12 in a Tennessee court.

The petition, which was obtained by the Associated Press , says the release of the records — which includes interviews with family members following Judd's death — would cause "significant trauma and irreparable harm."

The filing was made on behalf of the late musician's husband Larry Strickland and both Ashley and her sister Wynonna Judd .

"This profoundly intimate personal and medical information does not belong in the press, on the internet or anywhere except in our memories," Ashely explained in The New York Times .

"We ask because privacy in death is a death with more dignity," she added.

"Though there will be inevitable questions about our decision to assert what we believe is our legal right to protect our privacy in this specific matter, we stand united as a family and hold fast to our belief that what we said and did in the immediate aftermath of Naomi's death should remain in the private domain — just as it should for all families facing such devastation."

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The Emmy-nominated actress also extended compassion for Vanessa Bryant , who was recently awarded $16 million in the trial surrounding Kobe Bryant's crash photos.

"We feel deep compassion for Vanessa Bryant and all families that have had to endure the anguish of a leaked or legal public release of the most intimate, raw details surrounding a death," she wrote. "The raw details are used only to feed a craven gossip economy, and as we cannot count on basic human decency, we need laws that will compel that restraint."

Ashley concluded by saying how she would like her mother to be remembered: "goofy humor, glory onstage and unfailing kindness off it."

She added, "I hope that leaders in Washington and in state capitals will provide some basic protections for those involved in the police response to mental health emergencies. Those emergencies are tragedies, not grist for public spectacle."

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or go to 988lifeline.org .

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Ashley Judd Calls For Change & Privacy In Heartbreaking Op-Ed

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Ashley Judd reflected on “the most shattering day of my life” in a heartbreaking guest op-ed in the New York Times published Wednesday (August 31). She opened up about why she’s calling for legal change to help other grieving families keep sensitive details from being made public. She also explained the family's decision to file a petition int he courts to keep information about the investigation into her mother's death private.

Ashley wrote about the day her mother, beloved country artist Naomi Judd , died unexpectedly in an essay titled The Right to Keep Private Pain Private . Ashley and her sister, Wynonna Judd — who sang with Naomi in the iconic country duo, The Judds — confirmed on April 30 that they “ lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness . We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory.” Naomi died of a self-inflicted wound from a gun. She was 76. Both the autopsy report — a public record in the state of Tennessee — and a tearful interview Ashley gave earlier this year confirmed the tragic cause of death.

Ashley wrote in her New York Times guest essay on Wednesday about the “trauma” she experienced on the day her mother died, which still “haunts my nights.” She shared what it was like to give police interviews, explaining her hopes of changing the “terrible, outdated procedures and methods of interacting with family members who are in shock or trauma…,” and in particular, families who have lost a loved one because of suicide. Ashley noted that, because of the law enforcement interview process, she even felt “as if I was a possible suspect” in her mother’s death.

The Judd family filed a petition this month to prevent the investigation file from public disclosure, including those interviews with police that were conducted “at a time when we were at our most vulnerable and least able to grasp that what we shared so freely that day could enter the public domain,” Ashley wrote in her New York Times op-ed. She explained:

“We have asked the court to not release these documents not because we have secrets. We have always been an uncannily open family, which explains part of the public’s love for my mother. Folks identified with her honesty about her mistakes, admired her for her ability to survive hardship and delighted in her improbable stardom. We ask because privacy in death is a death with more dignity. And for those left behind, privacy avoids heaping further harm upon a family that is already permanently and painfully altered.”

Ashley wrote that the family is united and believes that their privacy — and the privacy of other families facing similar losses of loved ones — should remain protected and out of the public eye. The Judd family is still waiting for a decision from the courts.

Ashley also called for a reform of law enforcement procedures when it comes to public information. Acknowledging the need for officials to investigate, Ashley states that “there is absolutely no compelling public interest in the case of my mother to justify releasing the videos, images and family interviews that were done in the course of that investigation. Quite the contrary.”

Naomi “should be remembered for how she loved, which was with goofy humor, glory onstage and unfailing kindness off it — not for the private details of how she suffered when she died,” her daughter wrote.

Read Ashley’s full op-ed in the New York Times here .

If you or someone you know is considering suicide or is in emotional distress, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go to  suicidepreventionlifeline.org .

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Entertainment | ashley judd felt ‘cornered’ by police as mother, naomi judd, lay dying, in an essay, ashley judd argues against the public disclosure of details about her mother’s death and criticizes the way police interrogate family members coping with a sudden violent suicide.

“I felt cornered and powerless as law enforcement officers began questioning me while the last of my mother’s life was fading,” Ashley Judd wrote in the essay published Wednesday . The 76-year-old country music legend, who died April 30 in her home southwest of Nashville, Tennessee, had long been public about her struggles with mental illness.

“I wanted to be comforting her, telling her how she was about to see her daddy and younger brother as she ‘went away home,’ as we say in Appalachia,” Ashley Judd said. Instead, the actor said she felt compelled to participate in a series of interviews “that drew me away from the precious end of my mother’s life.” Socially conditioned to cooperate with law enforcement, Judd said she “gushed” answers to many “probing” and personal questions.

The answers provided by her and other family members have ended up in a death investigation report that is likely to be made public under Tennessee law, Ashley Judd said.

The release of these documents is likely to add to the pain that Ashley Judd and her family have been living in since April 30. That’s why the family has filed a petition with the courts to prevent the public disclosure of the file, “including interviews the police conducted with us at a time when we were at our most vulnerable and least able to grasp that what we shared so freely that day could enter the public domain.”

“This profoundly intimate personal and medical information does not belong in the press, on the internet or anywhere except in our memories,” Judd added.

Earlier in the essay, Judd said she is still haunted by the memory of holding her mother’s “laboring body.” Naomi Judd died the day before she and her older daughter, Wynonna, were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. With Wynonna, Naomi Judd scored 14 No. 1 songs in a career that spanned nearly three decades.

“As my family and I continue to mourn our loss, the rampant and cruel misinformation that has spread about her death, and about our relationships with her, stalks my days,” Ashley Judd said, explaining that the horror “will only worsen” if new details surrounding her death are made public. She insisted that the family doesn’t have any dark secrets, given that they have always been “uncannily open,” and her mother was beloved by fans for opening up about her mistakes and struggles.

While Ashley Judd expressed anger and dismay about the way she was subjected to multiple interviews that day, she also said she understands that officers were following methods and interview procedures they had been taught.

However, Ashley Judd said she takes issue with those procedures, calling them “terrible” and “outdated” and saying that the authorities “left us feeling stripped of any sensitive boundary, interrogated and, in my case, as if I was a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide.”

Ashley Judd called for a reform of law enforcement procedures that “wreak havoc on mourning families and then exacerbate their traumatic grief by making it public.” She agreed that agencies need to investigate sudden violent deaths by suicide, but there is “no compelling public interest” to release details of her mother’ death. Doing so could “act as a contagion among a population vulnerable to self-harm,” Ashley Judd wrote.

“I hope that leaders in Washington and in state capitals will provide some basic protections for those involved in the police response to mental health emergencies,” Ashley Judd said. “Those emergencies are tragedies, not grist for public spectacle.”

Ashley Judd concluded by saying her mother should be remembered for how she lived, “which was with goofy humor, glory onstage and unfailing kindness off it — not for the private details of how she suffered when she died.”

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). People also can text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org .

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Ashley Judd Recalls Holding Mom Naomi's "Laboring Body" as She Died in Gut-Wrenching Essay

In an essay for the new york times , ashley judd got candid about the day she found her mother, naomi judd, in her dying moments after taking her own life..

Ashley Judd is reflecting on the devastating day her mother, Naomi Judd , died.

The  High Crimes  actress, 54, opened up about "the most shattering day of my life" in a harrowing essay for The New York Times ,  during which she shared that she found her mother in her dying moments after taking her own life .

"My beloved mother, Naomi Judd, who had come to believe that her mental illness would only get worse, never better, took her own life that day," Ashley wrote. "The trauma of discovering and then holding her laboring body haunts my nights."

But instead of being able to be with her mom as she took her last breaths, Ashley said she was bombarded with interviews that "felt mandatory and imposed on me" from the local police. 

"I felt cornered and powerless as law enforcement officers began questioning me while the last of my mother's life was fading ," she wrote. "I wanted to be comforting her, telling her how she was about to see her daddy and younger brother as she ‘went away home,' as we say in Appalachia." 

Ashley also wrote about the months following Naomi's death, where she, her sister Wynonna Judd , and the rest of their family had to file a "petition with the courts" to prevent the public from having access to police records surrounding the country star's passing.

"This profoundly intimate personal and medical information does not belong in the press, on the internet or anywhere except in our memories," the  Double Jeopardy  actress wrote. "We have asked the court to not release these documents not because we have secrets. We ask because privacy in death is a death with more dignity. And for those left behind, privacy avoids heaping further harm upon a family that is already permanently and painfully altered."

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Naomi died by suicide at the age of 76 on April 30, a day before she and Wynonna were set to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. 

Following the "Love Can Build a Bridge" singer's death, her husband Larry Strickland  and her daughters were granted a temporary order in Williamson County, Tenn. that prevents Williamson County Sheriff  Dusty Rhoades  from "disclosing certain records and other materials regarding the death of Naomi Judd pursuant to one or more Public Records Act requests," according to the legal documents. 

The family also requested an "emergency en parte restraining order" that would cease the sheriff from sharing any investigative materials because "not all persons needed for a just adjudication are currently before the court." 

The court will hear the family's motion on Sept. 12. 

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This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You can also text HOME to 741741 or visit  SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources  for additional resources.

Ashley Judd is opening up about how her "chosen family" has been caring for her since her mom Naomi Judd's death by suicide last year at age 76.

Speaking to the New York Times , the "Kiss The Girls" star, 55, said she has suffered with traumatic flashbacks of walking into her mother's bedroom on April 30, 2022, to find that she had harmed herself after a long struggle with mental illness . The country music superstar died later the same day.What has helped process the intrusive thoughts, Ashley Judd told the publication, was the comfort and care of her a group of loved ones consisting of her partner, various mental health professionals and close friends.

Over the past year, these special people in Ashley Judd's life have looked out for her in simple ways: Some simply hold her when she is sad. Others have made sure she had food to eat in her refrigerator.

“A lot of times, grieving people don’t know what they need,” she said. “To ask them, ‘What can I do?’ is sincere but overwhelming. It can be more helpful simply to act, and schedule yourself to take out the recycling or to show up to take the dog out every day at 10 a.m.”

Ashley Judd and her step-dad, Larry Strickland, whom she calls Pop, have also leaned on one another in their grief, she said. The close pair cook together and discuss books they're reading about processing grief. When they drive together in the car, the two connect by singing "old mountain songs."

The "Barry" star also praised her sister, musician Wynonna Judd, who was her mother's bandmate in The Judds, for using music “as her vehicle for both her grieving and healing.”

Ashley Judd told the publication that she has long been a journal keeper. The practice of writing down her thoughts in fountain pen each day has been another form of therapy since her mother's death.

“I might tell her about my day,” she said of writing missives to her mom. “I might tell her how much I love her and miss her. It’s a way we stay very close.”

In April, Ashley Judd wrote an emotional essay for Time in honor of the one-year anniversary of her mother's death.

In the essay, the actor visualized the birthday card the late Country Music Hall of Fame member would have given her on her 55th birthday on April 19.

“I felt her love as I read the card I imagined she would have picked. A beautiful ouch,” she wrote. “And I remembered how every year on my special day, Mama would recount giving birth to me, sharing with the sweetest smile how she felt when she held me for the first time, what I smelled like, and what an easy baby I was.”

In the week after her birthday, Ashley Judd said she found herself sorting through her mom 's belongings.

“I have this week started to sit in sacred presence with her precious things, to look at her strands of red hair in her brush, to hold a pretty dress she left half-zipped, to chuckle at the folded tissues she kept in every single pocket,” she wrote. 

Ashley Judd also mentioned that she and Wynonna Judd would jointly accept the Lifesaver Award from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention later this year, an honor she has come to embrace.

“This is an award I would never have wanted to be given, yet one I will accept on my knees, bloody as they are from a year of falling, crawling, and getting back up again," she wrote.

Gina Vivinetto is a writer for TODAY.com.

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In a heartfelt new column for The New York Times , actor and activist Ashley Judd is calling for revisions to law enforcement and court practices that “wreak havoc on mourning families” coping with the deaths by suicide of loved ones.

Recalling the “most shattering day” of her life – April 30, 2022, when mother Naomi Judd “had come to believe that her mental illness would only get worse, never better” and “took her own life,” Ashley Judd says in “The Right To Keep Private Pain Private” that she “felt cornered and powerless as law enforcement officers began questioning me while the last of my mother’s life was fading.”

“I wanted to be comforting her,” Judd writes, “telling her how she was about to see her daddy and younger brother as she ‘went away home,’ as we say in Appalachia. Instead, without it being indicated I had any choices about when, where and how to participate, I began a series of interviews that felt mandatory and imposed on me that drew me away from the precious end of my mother’s life. And at a time when we ourselves were trying desperately to decode what might have prompted her to take her life on that day, we each shared everything we could think of about Mom, her mental illness and its agonizing history.”

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Earlier this month, Ashley Judd, sister Wynonna and Naomi’s husband Larry Strickland petitioned authorities in Tennessee to seal the police reports related to her death, with Strickland indicating he did not know the interviews were being recorded.

Writes Ashley in The Times , “At the beginning of August, my family and I filed a petition with the courts to prevent the public disclosure of the investigative file, including interviews the police conducted with us at a time when we were at our most vulnerable and least able to grasp that what we shared so freely that day could enter the public domain. This profoundly intimate personal and medical information does not belong in the press, on the internet or anywhere except in our memories.”

While Judd acknowledges “the need for law enforcement to investigate a sudden violent death by suicide,” she concludes that “there is absolutely no compelling public interest in the case of my mother to justify releasing the videos, images and family interviews that were done in the course of that investigation.” She calls on leaders in Washington and state capitals to “provide some basic protections for those involved in the police response to mental health emergencies. Those emergencies are tragedies, not grist for public spectacle.”

“The trauma of discovering and then holding her laboring body haunts my nights,” she writes. “As my family and I continue to mourn our loss, the rampant and cruel misinformation that has spread about her death, and about our relationships with her, stalks my days. The horror of it will only worsen if the details surrounding her death are disclosed by the Tennessee law that generally allows police reports, including family interviews, from closed investigations to be made public.”

Survivors of those lost to suicide “are often revictimized by laws that can expose their most private moments to the public,” Judd writes. “In the immediate aftermath of a life-altering tragedy, when we are in a state of acute shock, trauma, panic and distress, the authorities show up to talk to us. Because many of us are socially conditioned to cooperate with law enforcement, we are utterly unguarded in what we say. I gushed answers to the many probing questions directed at me in the four interviews the police insisted I do on the very day my mother died — questions I would never have answered on any other day and questions about which I never thought to ask my own questions, including: Is your body camera on? Am I being audio recorded again? Where and how will what I am sharing be stored, used and made available to the public?”

Judd says her family is “ waiting with taut nerves for the courts to decide” their request, adding that they feel “deep compassion for Vanessa Bryant and all families that have had to endure the anguish of a leaked or legal public release of the most intimate, raw details surrounding a death.”

“My mother was a small-town girl from eastern Kentucky, a woman who went on to change country music and is a member of its Hall of Fame,” Judd writes, adding, “She should be remembered for how she lived, which was with goofy humor, glory onstage and unfailing kindness off it — not for the private details of how she suffered when she died.”

In Instagram responses to the column, singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile wrote, “This is beautifully written and could change everything about the way these things are conducted. really feeling for you today, well done as always,” while Katie Couric responded, “Beautiful, Ashley. Thinking about you so much. Thank you for writing this important piece.”

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988, or go to 988lifeline.org.

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Ashley Judd describes 'shattering' day she held mum Naomi Judd as she died in powerful essay

By Bronte Gossling | 2 years ago

Ashley Judd has opened up about the "most shattering day of [her] life" in a harrowing essay about grief, privacy and trauma.

On April 30, country music legend and Ashley's mother Naomi Judd died at the age of 76 , and Ashley, 54, wrote for the New York Times of her experience discovering her mother as she was dying.

"The trauma of discovering and then holding her labouring body haunts my nights," Ashley wrote for the publication. "As my family and I continue to mourn our loss, the rampant and cruel misinformation that has spread about her death, and about our relationships with her, stalks my days."

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Naomi, who had struggled with mental health issues, died by suicide, an official autopsy report confirmed over the weekend .

At the time of Naomi's death, no immediate cause was given, though in a statement, Ashley and her sister Wynona Judd attributed their mother's death to "the disease of mental illness."

"My beloved mother, Naomi Judd, who had come to believe that her mental illness would only get worse, never better," Ashley wrote in the essay of finding her mother as she was dying.

Following Naomi's passing, alongside heartfelt tributes from Naomi's fans and loved ones, reports about Naomi's death and relationships with her family members also emerged, such as court documents regarding Naomi's will and who was included in it .

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Ashley said that instead of being able to comfort her mother in her final moments, police officers interrogated her and kept her from Naomi. In her essay, Ashley does make it clear that she knows police were following their procedures, but she says the official methods are "outdated" and it left her feeling like she was a "possible suspect" in Naomi's passing.

"I felt cornered and powerless as law enforcement officers began questioning me while the last of my mother's life was fading," Ashley wrote. "I wanted to be comforting her, telling her how she was about to see her daddy and younger brother as she 'went away home,' as we say in Appalachia."

In her essay, Ashley also revealed she was undertaking steps to prevent the public from having access to police records in personal and sensitive situations.

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"I intend to make the subsequent invasion of privacy – the deceased person's privacy and the family's privacy – a personal as well as a legal cause," she wrote.

Ashley highlighted how for herself and her family, the "horror" of Naomi's passing will "worsen" if further details are disclosed to the public, as the law in Tennessee – where Naomi lived – in general allows police reports from closed investigations, including family interviews, to be made public.

Ashley wrote: "Naomi lost a long battle against an unrelenting foe that in the end was too powerful to be defeated. I could not help her. I can, however, do something about how she is remembered."

If you or anyone you know needs immediate support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or via lifeline.org.au . In an emergency, call 000.

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Ashley Judd Says She Felt Like a ‘Suspect’ in Mother’s Suicide

After finding her country star mother mortally wounded in late April, the actress is fighting for protections to keep “utterly unguarded” parts of police interviews private.

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Ashley Judd has called for greater privacy protections for bereaved families after she says she was left feeling like “a possible suspect” during police interviews after her mother’s suicide .

The Heat actor, 54, spoke out about the unimaginable torment she went through this spring when she found her mother, Grammy-winning country star Naomi Judd, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the singer's home in Nashville. In a powerful personal essay, published Wednesday in the New York Times , Ashley called April 30 “the most shattering day of my life.”

“The trauma of discovering and then holding her laboring body haunts my nights,” Judd wrote. Last week, a report from the Nashville medical examiner said that Naomi died from a gunshot wound to the head, and that she had lived with a “significant” history of anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder. The report added that Ashley found her mother while badly wounded along with a “note with suicidal connotations” and a gun nearby, The Guardian reports.

In her essay, Judd explains how the agony of losing a loved one has been compounded by intrusive law enforcement practices and statutes.

“As my family and I continue to mourn our loss, the rampant and cruel misinformation that has spread about her death, and about our relationships with her, stalks my days,” she wrote. “The horror of it will only worsen if the details surrounding her death are disclosed by the Tennessee law that generally allows police reports, including family interviews, from closed investigations to be made public.”

Bereaved family members are “often revictimized” by laws that permit the public disclosure of police files, she said, with “utterly unguarded” comments made during law enforcement interviews and other personal information ultimately made available for anyone to see.

“I felt cornered and powerless as law enforcement officers began questioning me while the last of my mother’s life was fading,” she wrote in the essay, adding that she was compelled to answer investigative questions instead of being with her mother in her final hours. She stressed that the police she dealt with were “not bad or wrong” to follow established procedures, but that the procedures themselves needed to be addressed.

“It is now well known that law enforcement personnel should be trained in how to respond to and investigate cases involving trauma, but the men who were present left us feeling stripped of any sensitive boundary, interrogated and, in my case, as if I was a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide,” she said.

Earlier in August, Judd said she and her family had filed a court petition to prevent the publication of the investigative file in her mother’s case, explaining that the family has “secrets” and a “legal right to protect our privacy in this specific matter.”

But she also called for a change in laws and legal procedures to protect the privacy of anyone who might be affected by the publication of grisly details surrounding a death. Judd specifically said she has “deep compassion” for Vanessa Bryant, who recently won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Los Angeles County after graphic photos leaked of the helicopter crash that killed her basketball star husband, Kobe, and their daughter, Gianna.

“I hope that leaders in Washington and in state capitals will provide some basic protections for those involved in the police response to mental health emergencies,” she added. “Those emergencies are tragedies, not grist for public spectacle.”

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New York Times journalist Jodi Kantor — one of the reporters who broke the story of sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein — and actress Ashley Judd — one of the first women to publicly speak out against the Hollywood mogul — talked about the making of the ground-breaking article and the #MeToo movement at a Harvard Institute of Politics forum Thursday evening.

Iris Bohnet, co-director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program, moderated the event. Kantor, along with co-writer Megan Twohey, exposed Weinstein’s decades of sexual misconduct in an October 2017 investigative article, which earned the reporters a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Twohey was also scheduled to join the panel, but could not make it.

Kantor and Twohey’s investigation helped popularize the #MeToo movement, which was first launched by activist Tarana Burke in 2006 to empower women to share their experiences with sexual misconduct and call for accountability

Days after The New York Times published the piece exposing Weinstein, actress Alyssa Milano tweeted a viral message asking women who had also been sexually harassed or assaulted to comment “me too.” Judd said Milano’s message touched millions of people, including her own mother.

“That is what the movement has done,” Judd said. “It’s allowed us to have our autonomy and be in our narrative, and that’s where it starts.”

The panel opened with a screening of the trailer for the movie “She Said,” which is based on the 2019 book of the same name that details Kantor and Twohey’s reporting process. The film is slated for theatrical release on Nov. 18.

Kantor explained that it was difficult to find women who would agree to go on the record and attach their names to their stories of sexual harassment and abuse.

Several women the reporters met had signed non-disclosure agreements, which prevented them from speaking out for fear of legal consequences. Kantor added that the uncertainty surrounding the article’s repercussions deterred some women from coming forward.

“Even you, Ashley, had serious deliberations about whether this was a safe thing to do because none of us knew at the time whether it ultimately was,” Kantor said to Judd.

“[Megan’s] and my goal was to do the investigative work to give the women a platform to stand on,” she added.

Both Judd and Kantor recalled that they had imagined the article would at best spark a protest outside of Weinstein’s apartment or inspire a joke at the Oscars. Kantor said she is “still flabbergasted” at the impact the story has had on Hollywood and beyond.

“Journalism was sort of the form of last resort because every other system had failed: HR, the law, the Weinstein Company board of directors,” Kantor said. “So it was left to these two mom journalists.”

In a Q&A session after the panel, Judd described some of the recent changes she has noticed both globally and within Hollywood in response to the #MeToo movement.

“I’ve been sexually harassed on set more times than I can count, and I never knew where to go or who to tell,” she said. “Now on my union card — proud union member — there is a sexual harassment hotline to call.”

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Ashley Judd Can Sue Harvey Weinstein for Sexual Harassment, Court Rules

The ruling reversed a lower court’s dismissal of one of the claims brought by the actress against the now-imprisoned movie mogul.

By Neil Vigdor

The actress Ashley Judd can proceed with a sexual harassment claim as part of a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein , the movie mogul imprisoned for sex crimes and a focus of the #MeToo movement, an appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

A three-judge panel of United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, Calif., reversed a lower court’s dismissal of the sexual harassment component of Ms. Judd’s lawsuit, which she filed in April 2018 against Mr. Weinstein.

Ms. Judd, who is known for her roles in “Double Jeopardy,” “Kiss the Girls” and “A Time to Kill,” accused Mr. Weinstein of undermining her movie career after she rejected his sexual advances in the late 1990s. She also sued Mr. Weinstein on claims of defamation and unfair business practices.

But Ms. Judd’s legal crusade hit a snag in January, when a U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles ruled that she could not claim sexual harassment under the law in California because she did not have a specific business relationship with Mr. Weinstein at the time that she said that misconduct took place.

The judge’s interpretation of the state’s sexual harassment statute was rejected on Wednesday by the appeals court.

“By virtue of his professional position and influence as a top producer in Hollywood, Weinstein was uniquely situated to exercise coercive power or leverage over Judd, who was a young actor at the beginning of her career at the time of the alleged harassment,” the judges wrote in the ruling. “Moreover, given Weinstein’s highly influential and ‘unavoidable’ presence in the film industry, the relationship was one that would have been difficult to terminate ‘without tangible hardship’ to Judd, whose livelihood as an actor depended on being cast for roles.”

Ms. Judd has declined to join a class-action lawsuit that was brought against Mr. Weinstein by dozens of women who accused him of sexual misconduct. She has long sought to have her day in court.

“This is an important victory not only for Ms. Judd but for all victims of sexual harassment in professional relationships,” Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., a lawyer for Ms. Judd, said in an email on Wednesday. “The court correctly holds that California law forbids sexual harassment and retaliation by film producers and others in powerful positions, even outside the employment context, and we look forward to pursuing this claim against Mr. Weinstein at trial.”

Phyllis Kupferstein, a lawyer for Mr. Weinstein, said in a statement that her client would be vindicated of the accusations made by Ms. Judd.

“We are glad that both Ms. Judd and Mr. Weinstein will have their day in court, where we expect the truth will come to light,” she said. “The most minimal investigation of the events will show that Mr. Weinstein neither defamed Ms. Judd, nor hindered or interfered with her career, and certainly never retaliated against her and indeed, had nothing to retaliate for.”

Ms. Kupferstein said that Mr. Weinstein “fought” for Ms. Judd as his first choice for the lead role in the 1997 film “Good Will Hunting” and arranged for her to fly to New York to be considered for the part. She did not get it.

Mr. Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison in March after he was convicted of rape and criminal sexual assault in a separate criminal case in Manhattan.

Ms. Judd contends that Mr. Weinstein invited her to the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills in late 1996 or early 1997 to discuss movie roles, but instead of meeting in a public place, Mr. Weinstein summoned her to his room. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Weinstein, who was wearing a bathrobe, asked Ms. Judd for a massage and to watch him take a shower.

After Ms. Judd declined, she contends, she was passed over for major roles, including being cast in the “Lord of the Rings” films, which made $2.5 billion in ticket sales and earned 30 Oscar nominations.

Ms. Judd filed the lawsuit after the director and producer Peter Jackson came forward and said that he removed Ms. Judd from a “Lord of the Rings” casting list “as a direct result” of what he now thought was “false information” provided by Mr. Weinstein.

Ms. Judd’s lawsuit contends that Mr. Weinstein told Mr. Jackson and a producer that Mr. Weinstein had a “bad experience” with Ms. Judd and that she was “a nightmare to work with.”

Ms. Kupferstein said that Mr. Weinstein had no authority over the “Lord of the Rings” franchise and that Ms. Judd was cast in two of Mr. Weinstein’s projects, the 2002 film “Frida” and the 2009 film “Crossing Over.”

Neil Vigdor is a breaking news reporter. He previously covered Connecticut politics for The Hartford Courant. More about Neil Vigdor

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Ashley Judd speaks out on the right of women to control their bodies and be free from male violence

FILE - Ashley Judd speaks during an event on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Judd, whose allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein helped spark the #MeToo movement, spoke out Monday, April 29, on the right of women and girls to control their own bodies and be free from male violence. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Actor Ashley Judd, whose allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein helped spark the #MeToo movement, spoke out Monday on the rights of women and girls to control their own bodies and be free from male violence.

A goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Population Fund, she addressed the U.N. General Assembly’s commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the landmark document adopted by 179 countries at its 1994 conference in Cairo, which for the first time recognized that women have the right to control their reproductive and sexual health – and to choose if and when to become pregnant.

Judd called the program of action adopted in Cairo a “glorious, aspirational document” that has been “imprinted into my psyche … (and) has guided my 20 years of traveling the world, drawing needed attention to and uplifting sexual and reproductive health and rights in slums, brothels, refugee and IDP (internally displaced) camps, schools and drop-in centers.”

The Cairo conference changed the focus of the U.N. Population Fund, known as UNFPA, from numerical targets to promoting choices for individual women and men, and supporting economic development and education for girls. Underlying the shift was research showing that educated women have smaller families.

While Cairo recognized sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights for women, it did not recognize sexual rights. That came a year later at the 1995 U.N. women’s conference in Beijing.

On one of the most contentious issues at the Cairo conference, delegates recognized that unsafe abortion is a fact that governments must deal with as a public health issue to save women’s lives. But it did not condone abortion as a method of family planning or mention legalization, and 30 year later the issue remains contentious.

Judd recalled some of her travels including to Madagascar, where she said she spoke to women being commercially exploited by men. She said they were all forced into that work by the same root cause: “The sexual, reproductive, legal, political, social and cultural inequality of girls and women.”

In Turkey last August, Judd said she met with both Turkish families and refugees living in tents and containers “with one semi-functioning latrine for hundreds of people.”

Many said they were in no emotional, mental or physical condition to bring another baby into the world and Judd expressed gratitude that UNFPA was doing all it could “to provide modern family planning choices to those who want them, in spite of the government removing their availability in the public sector.”

A UNFPA goodwill ambassador since 2016, Judd stressed the importance of women choosing when to have children and “the ability to say no to sex free from retaliation.”

Natalia Kanem, executive director of UNFPA which now calls itself the U.N.’s sexual and reproductive health and rights agency , cited tremendous progress over the last three decades on the Cairo platform at the commemoration.

Maternal mortality declined by a third between 2000 and 2020, the number of women using contraceptives has doubled since 1990, adolescent births have dropped by a third since 2000, and rates of child marriage have decreased globally, she said.

Kanem also pointed to more than 60 countries passing legislation against domestic violence, and punitive laws against LGBTQ+ individuals “falling more quickly than ever.”

“And yet today, progress is slowing,” she said. “Annual reductions in maternal deaths have flattened, inequalities, between and within countries, are widening. And the rights of women, girls and gender diverse people are the subject of increasing pushback.”

U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told the crowded General Assembly chamber that the great progress in 30 years “has been masked by those that have been left behind.”

She cited many developing countries whose child mortality rates remain too high and the 164 million women of reproductive age around the world with no access to family planning.

“We must remain vigilant and continue to address situations where sexual and reproductive health and rights are being rolled back,” Mohammed said. “We must respond and push back when women’s rights are being eroded .”

Ashley Judd Calls for New Privacy Laws Around Autopsies After Mom Naomi’s Death

In an op-ed for The New York Times, the actress explains the pain of having information about her mother’s suicide become public

Ashley Judd is advocating for more discretion when it comes to publicizing autopsies and toxicology reports, especially for families who have lost a loved one to suicide.

On Thursday, the actress shared an essay she wrote for The New York Times, where she explained the pain she felt seeing information about her mother’s suicide become public without her consent. In a series of tweets , she reflected on the interviews she was “given no choice in doing” the day that her mother Naomi died.

“We need better law enforcement procedures and laws that would allow suffering families and their deceased loved one more dignity around agonizingly intimate details of their suffering,” she wrote on Twitter, adding that both autopsies and toxicology reports are public record.

“We have shared our story so openly, to raise awareness, reduce stigma, to help people identify, and make sure we all know we face mental illness together. What more do folks want us to give of our grief?” she concluded.

Naomi died in April at the age of 76, just days before she and daughter Wynonna were to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as The Judds. In an emotional interview with “Good Morning America” in May, Ashley revealed that she discovered her mother during a routine daily visit to her Tennessee home.

“I went upstairs to let her know the friend was there, and I discovered her,” she said. “I have both grief and trauma from discovering her. My mother is entitled to her dignity and her privacy. And so there are some things that we would just like to retain as a family.”

Ashley said Naomi was dearly and openly loved by her peers, but that the severity of her illness was more powerful than any amount of adulation from the outside.

“When we’re talking about mental illness, it’s very important to make the distinction between our loved one and the disease. It lies. It’s savage,” Judd said. “Our mother couldn’t hang on until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame by her peers. That was the level of catastrophe that was going no inside … the regard they had for her couldn’t penetrate her heart.”

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Ashley judd calls for stricter privacy laws around police, autopsy reports in wake of mother naomi’s death.

In an op-ed published in The New York Times on Wednesday, the actress also urged for a change to how authorities interact with the families of the recently deceased.

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Ashley Judd says she is lobbying for a change to Tennessee law that allows police reports to become public after the Judd family was interrogated by authorities following mother Naomi’s death, leaving them traumatized and the actress a possible suspect in her mother’s death by suicide.

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“The trauma of discovering and then holding her laboring body haunts my nights,” Judd writes in the Times . “As my family and I continue to mourn our loss, the rampant and cruel misinformation that has spread about her death, and about our relationships with her, stalks my days.”

It’s a pain and horror, the actress says, that will “only worsen” if the police reports — which include currently undisclosed details around her mother’s death — are allowed to be made public in states. In the op-ed, she specifically points to Tennessee laws governing closed cases that allow details of toxicology reports and autopsies to become public record.

The Double Jeopardy actress says the family’s decision to petition the courts in early August to prevent the public disclosure of these police reports is to protect them from an invasion of privacy and retraumatization. But her call for new legislation in Washington, D.C. and across states in her op-ed is also about other families who have similar experiences. That includes Vanessa Bryant, whose husband L.A. Lakers legend Kobe and daughter Gianna, died in a helicopter crash — photos of which were published online without the family’s consent. (Bryant was recently awarded $16 million for emotional distress over the crash photos.)

“We have asked the court to not release these documents not because we have secrets,” Ashley says. “We ask because privacy in death is a death with more dignity. And for those left behind, privacy avoids heaping further harm upon a family that is already permanently and painfully altered.”

The invasion she and her family experienced was the result of four interviews in which she was questioned by police on the day of her mother’s passing — a time when they all were “utterly unguarded,” she says. The experience made her feel powerless and cornered. It also left little time to ask her own questions, including, “Where and how will what I am sharing be stored, used and made available to the public?”

The Heat actress says the family shared things about their country music legend mother, “her mental illness and its agonizing history” through “terrible, outdated interview procedures and methods of interacting with family members who are in shock or trauma.”

Authorities were simply following procedure, according to the actress, but that experience left the family “feeling stripped of any sensitive boundary, interrogated and, in my case, as if I was a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide.” As a result of the emotionally difficult experience, the Golden Globe and Emmy nominee is pushing for reform not just to laws governing the public nature of this information, but to the processes by which family members are questioned by authorities.

She says these interactions can “wreak havoc on mourning families and then exacerbate their traumatic grief by making it public.” The Time person of the year in 2017, for being a silence breaker amid Hollywood’s #MeToo movement, added the current process and ability for this kind of information to go public can remove an individual’s choice over when, how and if they share their traumas.

“I gladly chose to confront deeply personal wounds in the spotlight before. The stories I’ve told — about sexual assault and its aftermath — are my own. Through my demands for justice, I used them to help catalyze change. When we are allowed time to process trauma and heal and to disclose its causes at our discretion, we can become effective public advocates,” she writes. “But people should never have to share their wounds with the public before they are ready — if ever.”

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988 or go to  988lifeline.org .

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