Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd, Wynonna Judd and several country music stars honored the late Naomi Judd in a CMT event Sunday night.

"The show must go on as hard as it may be.” As the at the emotional memorial came to a close, Wynonna revealed that she'll carry the songs forward on the 11-date Judds tour she and her mother announced back in April. Wynonna Judd, who shared the stage with her mother as one half of the successful duo The Judds, fittingly let music do the talking, following her sister's words with a performance of The Judds 1989 track "River of Time."

Naomi Judd's kids Ashley and Wynonna, as well as her husband, organized a memorial for the late star, who died by suicide in April — watch.

I mean, that is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her.” “And at this time when I am so forlorn, I say to my creator, I do not know who you are, and yet I do know who you are because you are the one who saved me. The five-time Grammy Award winner, the multi-platinum artist, the Hall of Famer who was lauded by millions and tonight we remember her in song.” And in the dark night of the soul, I say to myself, I do not know who I am because I am the one you saved.” “My mother, our mother, couldn’t hang on until she was inducted into the Country Hall of Fame [on May 1] by her peers. I’m so tired and so heartbroken,” Wynonna said.

Naomi Judd celebrated by daughters Ashley, Wynona and country music in CMT celebration, where Wynona confirmed The Judds tour to go on.

“She was a nurse. “She was every woman. She was traumatized by early childhood sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and rape, and she was fired by a boss when she refused to go away with him for a weekend. She was a single mom who sometimes relied on public assistance. “After a lot of thought, I’m going to have to honor her and do this tour. “I miss her so much.

Ashley Judd joined her sister Wynonna Judd and their stepfather Larry Strickland on Sunday to pay tribute to her mother, Naomi Judd, following her death in ...

Judd went on to recall how her mother went from the child who knew everyone's birthdays, to a teen mother, and eventually a member of the iconic mother-daughter music duo, The Judds. She also noted all of the difficulties her mother overcame in her life. She went on to share that her mother, born Diana Ellen Judd, took "her identity into her own hands" and changed her name to Naomi Judd, the famed country icon's daughter remembering her mother as "every woman. Thanking those in attendance, which included PopCulture.com, for gathering at "the mother church of country music," which Judd noted "is where mom wanted her public celebration to take place," the actress began by tearfully noting, "We are here tonight remembering an icon and a legend who left country music better than she found it."

"I was really scared to death about her flying alone all the way from Vienna back to Nashville cause I knew how fragile she was," Strickland said during ...

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Larry Strickland reflected on his "fragile" late wife Naomi Judd's final days, explaining how he has been finding "pleasure and comfort" since her death.

“The barrier between the regard in which [her peers] held her couldn’t penetrate into her heart, and the lie that the disease told her was so convincing.” “I have both grief and trauma from discovery.” “I’m going to have to honor her and do this tour. Rest assured she loved you and had no qualms about telling me, a stranger on a plane, that was so.” I’m just going to have to,” Wynona said. The event took place one day after her death.