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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Ashley Judd reveals vulnerable account of last moments with mother Naomi

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Actress Ashley Judd speaks in Beverly Hills, California, in April 2018. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Ashley Judd has delivered her most complete account yet of the heart-wrenching moments during which she personally discovered her mother’s suicide in 2022 – and sought to ensure her parent let go of “her guilt and her shame” over what she had done at the conclusion of a long struggle with depression.

“I … told her how much I loved her, and it’s OK to go,” the actor said on The Judd Family: Truth Be Told.

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