Ashley Juddis paying tribute to her late mother,Naomi Judd.
Sharing a series of pictures and videos toInstagramfrom The Judds' induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday night — as well as some memorable family moments — Ashley, 54, thanked everyone for the outpouring of love following hermother’s death.
“Speechless,” she began her lengthy caption before explaining the images and clips in the post, which included “gazing at the new bronze plaque inducting@thejuddsofficial@wynonnajuddinto the@officialcmhof” and “my bereft Pop@larrystrickland7singing How Great Thou Art for me on my sleeping Porch (we are singing hymns this evening).”
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Ashley also included an old image of herself, her sisterWynonna Juddand Naomi “on Little Cat Creek in Lawerence County, Ky.”
Expressing gratitude for the support she and Wynonna, 57, received from fans, she continued, “Your outpouring is reaching me.”
“Thank you for every thought, prayer, message, text, email, post, expression,” she wrote. “We each are alone and we are in fellowship, broken and held, protected from nothing and sustained in everything.”
“It’s the beginning of an old story, life and death, loss and life,” she added. “Be free, my beautiful mother. Be free.”
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During the ceremony to celebrate the induction of the iconic mother-daughter duo into Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday, Wynonnaaccepted the honoron behalf of herself and her mother and gave a tearful but composed speech.
“I’m gonna make this fast because my heart’s broken — and I feel so blessed,” she told the 800 people gathered in Nashville’s CMA Theater for the ceremony. “I mean, it’s a very strange dynamic to be this broken and this blessed.”
An additional statement from Naomi’s husband of 32 years, Larry Strickland, read: “Naomi Judd’s family request privacy during this heartbreaking time. No additional information will be released at this time.”
Prior to her death, Naomi and Wynonna announced their first tour in over a decade, titled The Final Tour. The nearly sold-out 10-date arena tour was set to kick off on Sept. 30 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and would conclude in Nashville on Oct. 28.
A source told PEOPLE the family has nowplanned to discuss the fateof the scheduled fall tour.
“The family is meeting this week to talk about the state of the upcoming tour to see how and if it can proceed in an obviously different incarnation,” the insider shared. “They want to be respectful and representative of their legacy, but more importantly as to what Naomi would have wanted for her family and fans.”
source: people.com
