Naomi Judd

The salute to Judd's life will air live from Nashville's Ryman Auditorium commercial-free on Sunday, May 15, at 6p/5c with an encore presentation at 10p/9c ...

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Country music superstar Naomi Judd died of a self-inflicted firearm wound on April 30, daughter Ashley Judd said on ABC's Good Morning America today.

. @ashleyjuddto @dianesawyeron her late mother Naomi Judd: “Our mother couldn't hang on until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame by her peers. Judd said Naomi “couldn’t hang on until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame by her peers. If you are in crisis or know someone in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741. “When we’re talking about mental illness, it’s very important and — to be clear, and to make the distinction between our loved one and the disease,” she added. “There are some things that we would just like to retain as a family,” she said. “Mother used a firearm,” Judd told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an emotional interview this morning.

Sunday's public celebration for the life of Naomi Judd will feature tributes from family and friends, along with never-before-seen performances.

Carly Pearce and Cody Alan will serve as hosts for CMT, providing commentary throughout the celebration to be held at the former home of the Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. There will also be special messages from Bono, Morgan Freeman, Oprah Winfrey and Salma Hayek, according to a press release from CMT, which will broadcast the the event. "Good Morning America's" Robin Roberts, who is a close family friend to the Judds, will host the memorial for the famed country singer who died in April

The public memorial service for Naomi Judd has been set for this weekend and will air live on CMT, with a lineup of guests to be announced.

The Country Music Hall of Fame medallion ceremony that took place May 1 in Nashville ended up functioning in part almost as a preliminary memory service for Naomi, who died just a day before she and Wynonna were inducted as a duo into the hall. Carly Pearce and Cody Alan will host the CMT telecast. Bono, Morgan Freeman, Oprah Winfrey, Martina McBride and Salma Hayek will offer tributes, and Judd’s daughters Wynonna and Ashley Judd will appear.

Nashville royalty gathers Sunday evening inside the Ryman Auditorium to pay tribute to late country singer Naomi Judd.

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In an interview with Good Morning America, Ashley Judd said her family wanted to get ahead of any news, and that she didn't want her mother's death to ...

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"That is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her," Judd said. Judd said the family reluctantly shared the cause of death before it became public in some other way. "She used a weapon," Ashley Judd said.

Ashley Judd encouraged anyone who was having thoughts of harming themselves to reach out to The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.

Ashley Judd said that her mother shot herself with a gun, but asked for privacy on other details of the death. “So when I walked around the back of their house and came in the kitchen door and she said, ‘There’s my darling, there’s my baby.’ And she lit up. I mean, that is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her because the barrier between — the regard in which they held her couldn’t penetrate into her heart. And the lie that the disease told her was so convincing.” In an interview aired on “Good Morning America” on Thursday, the movie star said she wanted to address her mother’s struggle with depression. And, you know, my mother, our mother, couldn’t hang on until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame by her peers.

Ms. Judd's youngest daughter, the actress Ashley Judd, said in a television interview on Thursday that her mother was suffering from mental illness when she ...

In the interview on Thursday, Ashley Judd said she was visiting her mother at her home outside Nashville when she died. “And she was someone who suffered from mental illness, you know, and had a lot of trouble getting off the sofa, except to go into town every day to the Cheesecake Factory, where all the staff knew and loved her.” “Mother used a firearm,” Ms. Judd said. Go here for resources outside the United States. “So that’s really the impetus for this timing. “We’re aware that although grieving the loss of a wife and a mother, we are, in an uncanny way, a public family,” Ms. Judd said.