Naomi Judd's Family Petitions to Keep Private Investigation Findings From Public -- Why?
Naomi Judd's family is requesting the police to stop sharing information about the death of the singer-actress.
The said request has been filed in Williamson County Chancery Court.
It comes after media outlets in Tennessee requested for the records in relation to Judd's death investigation.
According to the petition given to the Associated Press to which the family's legal counsel filed on their behalf, if the police reports and recording were made to public it would bring "significant trauma and irreparable harm" to the family since the records contain video and audio interviews with relatives.
Judd died at the age of 76 on April 30 a day before she was supposedly inducted to the" Country Music Hall of Fame."
The painful cause of death of the star was revealed by one of her daughters in an interview. Ashley revealed that her mother suffered from mental illness which she lost in the fight.
Aside from the trauma that might arise when the records are made public is the fact that private information will also be revealed such as medical records of the singer and as well as the conversations family members had with the authorities during investigation.
According to the petition being submitted, Larry Strickland, husband of the late singer said that he had no knowledge that the conversation he had with the police was being recorded so as he assisted the police with their investigation, he shared private and personal information with them.
More so, Judd's daughter Ash also shared in a statement that she was in "clinical shock, active trauma and acute distress" when she had a conversation with the authorities. Adding that if the investigation records goes public it will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Meanwhile, in the "Healing with David Kessler," the struggles of the singer with mental illness was opened up by Ash in which she elaborated how it affects the childhood days of her and sister Wynonna.
"I look back on my childhood and I realize I grew up with a mom who had an undiagnosed and untreated mental illness and there are different behavioral expressions, interactions, flights of fancy, choices that she made that I understand were an expression of the disease."
She added that she understands the pain that her mother is feeling and experiencing at the time and admires how the singer managed her situation.
Ash also said that she hopes her mother was at peace as she left this place, that she was able to let go of any guilt or shame that she carried for any shortcomings she may have had in her parenting with her and Wynonna. Noting that she forgave her mother a long time ago.
