Ashley Judd called the authorities because they made her feel like she was “a suspect” when they questioned her while holding her dying mother after a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“I suppose they did what she was taught,” the actress, 54, wrote in an op-ed published in The New York Times, talking about the officers who showed up holding her mother’s “working body” and questioning her. started to set .
Ashley, who was the one who discovered her mother after her suicide attempt, continued: “It is now common knowledge that law enforcement officers need to be trained in responding to and investigating trauma cases, but the men present left us stripped of any sensitive boundary, questioned and, in my case, as if I were a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide.”
Upon discovering her, Ashley wrote that she just wanted to “comfort” her when the “musician’s life was fading.” However, she felt it was “mandatory” that she stay with the officers and answer their questions, adding that “many of us are socially conditioned to work with law enforcement.”
“I poured out answers to the many probing questions addressed to me in the four interviews police pressed for the day my mother died — questions I wouldn’t have answered on any other day and questions I never thought I’d have answered. to pose myself. questions, including: Is your body camera on? Will I be audio recorded again? Where and how is what I share, stored, used and made available to the public?” the “Double Jeopardy” star wrote.
Ashley was also adamant that the investigation file into Naomi’s death will remain private, including family interviews with authorities.
“This very intimate personal and medical information has no place in the press, on the Internet or anywhere else except in our memories,” Ashley wrote.
The singer passed away on April 30 after battling mental health issues for years, with Ashley and sister Wynonna Judd soon after confirming the sad news.
“We are broken. We are going through deep sorrow and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her audience. We are in uncharted territory,” they said in a joint statement.