Naomi Judd.Jonathan Leibson/WireImage
The autopsy reportedly found in Judd’s system several prescription drugs used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder.
The findings come weeks after Ashley Judd, her sisterWynonna Juddand Naomi’s husband Larry Stricklandfiled a petition in Tennessee asking to seal police reports and recordingsfrom the investigation into the country star’s death.
Strickland reportedly stated in the petition that he didn’t know his interviews with police were being recorded and therefore provided personal information, while Ashley said she does not want her interviews made public because she was in “clinical shock, active trauma and acute distress” at the time.
Larry Strickland, Ashley Judd and Wynonna Judd.Mickey Bernal/Getty
TheBerlin Stationactress recentlyopened up about her grief journeyon theHealing with David Kesslerpodcast, and said she has learned to understand that her mother’s pain was a product of her disease.
“I look back on my childhood and I realize I grew up with a mom who had an undiagnosed and untreated mental illness,” Judd said. “And there are different behavioral expressions, interactions, flights of fancy, choices that she made that I understand were an expression of the disease and I understand that and know that she was in pain and can today understand that she was absolutely doing the best she could, and if she could have done it differently, she would have.”
Earlier in the conversation, Judd explained that something she’d learned over the years was that she “didn’t cause” her mother’s illness, “couldn’t control it” and also “couldn’t cure it.”
With that in mind, the actress said she hoped that Naomi’s death brought with it a sense of peace for the singer.
“My most ardent wish for my mother is that when she transitioned, she was hopefully able to let go of any guilt or shame that she carried for any shortcomings she may have had in her parenting of my sister and me. Because certainly on my end, all was forgiven long ago, all was forgiven long ago,” she said.
source: people.com
