Country music icon Naomi Judd dies at 76

The Hollywood Reporter

Judd, one-half of Grammy-winning country music duo The Judds with daughter Wynonna Judd and the mother to actress Ashley Judd, died Saturday, 19 days after her last performance on the CMT Music Awards and one day before The Judds' induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. "Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness," Naomi Judd's family said in a statement. "We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory." In addition to singing, Naomi Judd had some acting roles, lending her voice to Frasier, guest-starring on 3rd Rock from the Sun and Touched by an Angel and starring last year on Lifetime's V.C. Andrews' Landry Family.

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• Naomi Judd's death comes as Fox is developing a scripted Icon music legends series on The Judds: "The project, from producer Gail Berman and top country music manager Jason Owen, was announced in August 2020, with Naomi and Wynonna Judd as executive producers on the first season which tells their story," says Deadline's Nellie Andreeva, adding: "I hear Naomi Judd was very involved in the process, sharing her experience and providing input in a series of conversations with Milch. Multiple scripts have been written. While I hear Fox brass have been high on the project from the start and like what they have seen, a pickup decision was not expected to come before the upfronts next month when the broadcast networks present their fall lineups to advertisers. It is unclear whether that would change in light of Judd’s tragic passing, I hear that is a possibility."
• Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will proceed with its ceremony Sunday night honoring The Judds