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Wynonna and Ashley Judd admit in a new documentary that they have developed a complex relationship with their late mom Naomi Judd, who also handles their own trauma on the road to success.

In the A&E documentary, "The Judd Family: The Truth", the sisters unveiled the first three episodes about growing up with a young mom, who experienced their abuse in one of their mothers when they were little, left Los Angeles, moved to Kentucky, moved to Kentucky, and how Wynonna and Naomi and Naomi dated Country Music with SutperStardom in Sutperstardom.

Wynonna said at the beginning of the documentary: “I love her more than I love myself, but my mother fell in love with me and was scared of me because I represented something she didn’t know and couldn’t control.”

Wynonna believes that Naomi Judd's "generational trauma" may lead to suicide.

Wynonna said she believes her mother’s suicide is attributed to the “generational trauma” she experienced.

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"I think one of the reasons why mom left the world is due to trauma, generational trauma, never getting healed or fixed household supplies," Wynonna said in the first episode of the show.

Growing up, Naomi Judd had a judgemental mother whose younger brother died of Hodgkin's lymphoma as a child, and she was a teenage mother who gave birth to Wynonna.

Wynonna calls her intimacy with her mother a “blessing and burden” because she feels “responsible to make herself feel better.”

"As a kid, she didn't get what she needed," Wynonna said. "It's true."

But she admitted that she "don't allow herself to be a child" to grow up.

"I'm an adult," Wynonna said of her relationship with her mother.

Ashley added that their mother lived in a "pain group" of severe depression before her death.

“I love her more than I love myself, but my mother both fell in love with me and was scared of me because I represented something she didn’t know and couldn’t control.”

- Wynonna Judd

Wynonna said that since she was a kid, Naomi had been looking for recognition from her mother who judged that she loved audiences as a kid, and that Ashley said continued to pursue her professional music career.

"It has nothing to do with self, grandeur and self-importance," Ashley revealed. "It's actually more modest than that. It's about basic self-worth."

Naomi died of suicide in April 2022.

Naomi's ex-boyfriend once hung Ashley in the bedroom window next to her ankle

Ashley and Wynonna said that after splitting from their father, their mother met a man whom he was called "creepy."

"Mom has a real, really not a healthy boyfriend," she explained. "She sees him as James Dean. The reality is that he is not James Dean. He is a creepy person.

“I’m old enough to know what’s wrong. I remember watching TV, I knew this guy very, very well in the bathtub.

Wynonna said their mother was often away from home and she became “incredible, incredible protection”.

Ashley said that once a boyfriend at home found a story about a girl writing on the wall, “He hung me on the bedroom window on my ankle.”

Naomi wrote in her memoir how he moved to an apartment across the street after breaking up with him so that he could track her.

She said one night she found someone at her home. When she goes in, her ex catches her jealously, asking her to know if she's with another man.

“When he raped me, I prayed that he wouldn’t kill me because my children needed me,” she wrote.

Ashley said she was left to herself for most of her childhood.

Ashley said she felt she was “abandoned” by her parents as a kid, adding that everyone thought she was a “very capable child” so “no one needed to take care of me.”

Naomi's W. Larry Strickland said Ashley was alone when he toured with Naomi and Wynonna.

"Ashley, I'm sure she felt forgotten. You know, she suffered, and she suffered, because of it. It changed her."

She moved in with her father in her junior year of high school, but she said he didn't have much and was using drugs.

"My intuition is that the reason for abandoning me comes from the belief that I am this powerful kid...so no one needs to take care of me. Both of my parents have those beliefs."

She remembers dealing with chickenpox alone in her motel room when she was young.

"Mom works at night and then goes out at night, so I'm in this weird place with chickenpox. I've been asleep all the time," Ashley said.

At the time, Naomi moved back to Kentucky with the girls, but she was still struggling for nine to five jobs until she and Wynonna got their musical success.

“That was a game of childhood depression,” Ashley said.

“I just watch ads, take out the ad-promoted cleaning products and copy what I saw on TV,” Ashley remembered when she was taking care of herself in the motel.

When she was 14, Ashley was sent to a Japanese model and she said she had been raped twice.

She said that when the mom later discovered the attack from Ashley's diary, Naomi "sneered" at the idea, referring to the man who raped her as "boyfriend."

"But I'm a little girl. I'm not a participant. I'm a victim. Things that didn't agree with, mom and I have a lot of conversations in life later," Ashley said. "And her understanding of sexual assault and rape is not her perspective of growth and development. She just doesn't have that information and perspective.

"So her reaction to me was a ridicule of me. I was shut down. My own experience and reality were invalid and denied, and today in her heart, it would be a very painful lament."

“I think one of the reasons why mom left the world was due to trauma, generational trauma, family stuff that never got healed or fixed.”

- Wynonna Judd

But she added that her experience with her mother was “description is not prosecution. Everyone does their best.”

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Judds music director Dan Potter said he understands why Wynonna struggled with her weight in her singing career.

"She wants to be attractive," he told the documentary producer. "What happened made her not want to be attractive."

"I was harassed at the age of 12, so my whole sexual behavior was indeed eliminated because I only had 12 points to really close," Wynonna revealed. "So, I took the weight literally and figuratively."

She said her weight was because of food turned into a "soother" like drugs or alcohol, and she became a problem after her and her mom succeeded in becoming a rural duo.

"Mom is hard on me because she's scared of losing me, but she never says that. Always like, 'OK,' Well, if you lose 20 pounds, you're going to be a pop star.' I remember the conversation very well."

Wynonna pointed out that this was the same thing her grandmother said to her mom.

She added: "That's why I'm so angry because I know it's been passed down."

She said the mother's sexual behavior on stage was "so serious".

"She's 36. She's ready to catch a fire," Wynonna said with a smile. "As the kids are going to say today, she drips with water. She's sly and ready to rumble. Man, her pattern is down, but then I feel very aggravated by her sexual behavior."

She added that she hoped her connection with her mom would be as harmonious as their music, but “there were a lot of dysfunction.”

Larry Strickland

Strickland, also a musician, admitted in the documentary that he was “jealous of the bullshit” early in his career.

Naomi wrote in her memoir that after she found out that their song "Mama He to Crazy" was number one, Strickland stood up and walked out of the door.

The 76-year-old admitted to his late wife, "So I was jealous of her bullshit, so we were a little broken."

Naomi described Strickland's "Leaving Me" documentary in a 1987 interview when he discovered that "Mom He's Crazy" had become No. 1.

Naomi wrote in her memoir that she met Strickland in 1979 when his gospel group stamp quartet walked into the building where she served as secretary of Nashville.

The group toured with Elvis Presley for the last three years of his life.

"I mean, it's almost love at first sight," Strickland said of Naomi in the documentary.

He said they had no money at the time and he set up his own band Memphis, which toured the country club.

"I'm trying to find my own way," he said. "Naomi, she's the breadwinner. We're very poor. It was a tough time, a very tough time."

Strickland said Naomi will be working as a nurse’s new job at night and she will knock on the door during the day.

"So, she's doing it all," he said.

He added: “Only a few people can pass (enter the industry).

After years of hard work, Naomi and Wynonna made a major breakthrough after meeting Nashville producer Brent Maher and signed with RCA Records in 1983.

"If you can imagine all those Naomi's years fighting against the battle, then all the meetings, all the meetings, must be shocking," Mach said during his signing with the RCA.

Naomi wrote in her memoir that one night, Strickland was called long distance while she was on the road with Wynonna.

"He wants to change his life," she wrote. "'I'm getting off. I love you, so I want you to marry me. What's your answer?'

Strickland told the documentary producer: "I'm just funny, but I said, 'Do you want to be buried with my people?' "It's an old saying. ”

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"The greatest year of our lives is not only professionally but also personal," Naomi wrote in her memoir of that time.

Strickland and Naomi married in 1989 until their death in 2022.