Naomi Judd’s Suicide Note Revealed

Naomi Judd, a country music singer, committed suicide after leaving a post-it message stating that Wynonna was not wanted at her funeral.

Judd, aged 76, was apparently shot to death in her Tennessee home.

“Do Not let Wy come to my funeral. She’s mentally ill,” the post-it note — released by the  Williamson County Sheriff’s Department — read, with the word “not” underlined, Radar Online reported.

The day of Naomi Judd’s death, her daughter, actress Ashley Judd, reportedly sent frantic texts to Naomi’s therapist, Dr. Ted Klontz, saying her mother was having a manic episode. “She’s having an episode. Yelling and crying and pacing … Emergency … Please come to mom’s … Now,” She wrote. Naomi apparently calmed down. She then went upstairs, while Ashley Judd spoke and Ashley Judd listened. Ashley Judd discovered her mother suffering from a gunshot wound in her head and decided to tell Klontz. “She did it. She finally did it.”

A Williamson County Sheriff’s Deputy who responded to the scene wrote, “Didn’t like being alone/Larry in Europe … She threatened to kill herself a half a dozen times, guns were involved. She locked herself in her bedroom. She would threaten to shoot the people who took her [illegible.]”

Naomi Judd reportedly Wynonna and Ashley had been left out of her will. She also left everything to Larry Strickland, her husband of 33-years. “I nominate and appoint my spouse, Larry Strickland, as Executor of my estate. … In the event my spouse ceases or fails to serve, then I nominate and appoint my brother-in-law, Reginald Strickland, and Daniel Kris Wiatr as Co-Executors. I direct that no bond shall be required of my Executor,” She wrote.

Wynonna dismissed rumors that she and Ashley were fighting over their mother’s estate, telling People Magazine, “Someone told me while I was at Ashley’s house, ‘Hey, did you know that they’re saying this about you?’ I went, ‘Huh? I’m fighting with Ashley? Oh. Again?’ Fighting over what? I have such a great life. Ashley has a great life. Why would we be fighting over the will?”

“I am the last person in this family — and if Ashley was here, I’d hope she’d agree with me — who knows stuff like this,” She went on. “I’m not savvy enough to go, ‘I’m going to contest the will.’ It never occurred to me.”

Sources told Radar Online that Wynonna did indeed attend her mother’s funeral.

The Judds were the dominant group in country music during the 1980s. They won five Grammys and nine CMAs and sold tens of thousands of records.

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