Naomi Judd’s household have condemned the publication of the singer’s suicide word.
Earlier this week, officers from the Williamson County Sheriff’s Workplace in Tennessee launched a collection of photographs from the scene the place The Judds star died in April 2022 aged 76.
On Thursday evening, her daughter, actress Ashley Judd, printed an announcement on Twitter in regards to the photographs on behalf of herself, her sister Wynonna, their mom’s husband Larry Strickland and different relations.
“Our household is deeply distressed by the galling, irresponsible publication of and ongoing requests for particulars and pictures of our beloved mom and spouse’s loss of life by suicide due to the trauma and injury it does to those that view such supplies and the contagion threat they pose to those that are weak to self-harm,” the assertion reads. “This so-called ‘journalism’ is merely the crudest monetization of a household’s struggling and despair, and a flagrant, cynical disregard for public welfare. It’s equally a deep violation of our proper to a modicum of decency and privateness in loss of life.”
One of many police pictures featured a yellow Publish-It word Naomi left behind in her room. Within the suicide word, she demanded her daughter and bandmate Wynonna not be invited to her funeral.
Addressing the headlines surrounding the message, the household wrote, “The word that was left got here from the advanced illness of psychological sickness and never from her mom’s coronary heart.”
The household concluded, “We hope the general public and elected officers now see, with us, the eager significance of strengthening and altering state privateness legal guidelines in order that police reviews within the occasion of loss of life by suicide aren’t, actually, public report. The consequence of the legislation as it’s presently serves solely the craven gossip financial system and has no public worth or good.”
Judd’s household filed a lawsuit to cease the police photographs from being launched publicly, however they dropped the case in December.
