Ashley Judd reveals heartbreaking final conversation with mom Naomi as she lay dying

Ashley Judd is sharing new insight into her mom Naomi Judd’s tragic suicide.In the new docuseries “The Judd Family: Truth Be Told” that aired this weekend on Lifetime, Ashley, 57, opened up about the last conversation she had with Naomi as the country singer died by suicide at age 76 in April 2022.Ashley recalled that on the morning of her mother’s passing, Naomi sent her a text that said, “Please help.”“When I got there, Mom was very uncomfortable in her body, pacing around the kitchen and expressing that she didn’t want to be here anymore,” the “Missing” actress explained.“I put my hand on her leg and she patted me and she slowly softened and came back to herself and calmed down and shared a couple of things that I would say are private, between us, about why she chose to continue to live,” Ashley shared.Naomi went upstairs, Ashley said, but when the “Divergent” star checked on her, she discovered that Naomi “had harmed herself.”“And then I spent the next whatever it was — half hour — just holding my mother and talking to her, and the first thing I said to her was, ‘It’s OK, I’ve seen how much you’ve been suffering,'” Ashley said.“And we just breathed together,” Ashley added, “and I talked to her and told her how much I loved her, and it’s OK to go.”Ashley said that once her mom passed of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, “my most earnest wish was to make sure that she was relieved and absolved of her guilt and her shame.”“I was holding her hand.

I was kissing her,” Ashley recalled.“She was so soft.

She smelled so pretty.”She added of Naomi’s final moments, “It was like this final consummation of the love in the relationship that we had transformed.What an honor, to be born into this human life, to be chosen by her.

I got to hold space, I got to bookend.And I’m just so glad I was there.”Naomi struggled with mental illness for years before her death.The “Have Mercy” singer allege...