The Judds

Naomi and Wynonna's relationship reminds me of Candy and Tori Spelling's.

Ashley wrote a Mommie Dearest type book saying she was often left alone at home for weeks or days at a time while her mother and sister were out trying to launch their music career.

She described school counselors worrying about her mental health because she had gone a little crazy from the fear she felt being abandoned as a kid.

Her she and Naomi estranged now? didn't they all live on the same compound of land in their own separate houses?

The book Is Love Can Build a Bridge

Naomi mentioned in an interview in the last couple years that she hadn't spoken to Ashley in a while. She was on Oprah and when asked about Ashley said she wasn't really sure what she had been up to,, but had been traveling.

If they did nothing else but give the world "Why Not Me" I'd still love them.

Naomi and Wynnona, that is, Ashley's full of herself and a major fruit basket. Such a Marin County cliche'.

How many “farewell “ tours did Naomi do before she miraculously got well again.

R2, is that why she has done all of that shit to her face? She looks like she's wearing a silicon mask now.

I still remember how shocked I was to realize that Naomi was the mother and Wynonna the daughter. At the time (30+ years ago), Wynonna looked like the mother. Time has since caught up to Naomi.

I worked with all three Judds in the 90s and early 00s. Wynonna is terrific and fun; a great soul and a great singer, but a drama queen. She marries dumb guys to make her feel smarter. She's got a major food addition and her weight problem has basically ended her mainstream career.

Ashley is always and annoyingly the smartest person in the room and she loves to let you know it. Loves to "shock" rednecks with six syllable words. She was generally cool and fun back then, but I hear those days are long gone.

Naomi is, to put it lightly, a control freak with everybody, myself included. She rarely spoke to me but when she did it was always to challenge and to be contrary. Like if I mentioned something in the news about Bill Clinton and she was in earshot, she'd go out of her way walk over and suddenly tell me a story about flying on Air Force One with George H.W. Bush. Was she trying to convert me into a Republican? Ha!

It was during the time I worked with them that it was revealed that Wynonna and Ashley are only half-sisters. Apparently, Naomi (real name: Diana) had gotten pregnant from fucking this goober redneck that worked at her dad's filling station. She panicked and immediately turn her attention to a hot rich kid named Mike, began fucking him, passed off the due baby as his, and then eloped with him. A few years later, they had Ashley, which explains why she looks nothing like Wynonna and is pretty attractive. Mike raised Wynonna (real name: Christine) as his own.

When a reporter was about to expose the story of the deceit, Naomi was in a bit of a panic because her narrative was the gospel and she had written in her autobiography and in every press piece every written. When the truth was about to crash down, nobody could understand how anybody could withhold information like that from your daughter for so long. Wynonna was crushed and poor Mike was suddenly thrust into the spotlight. Naomi is a very icy and calculating person to have pulled off a scam like that for decades.

They were performing on a TV show I worked on in LA and I walked by their star trailer, which had an fake grassy area outside for them to lounge as they waited to go on. Both of them were smoking joints. Wonder if she toked up with H.W. on Air Force One.

All this aside, they're stellar performers, all three of them, but a WEIRD family.

Thanks R9... dish, dish, dish. Your post reminds me of a DL thread that was essentially hosted by "Nashville guy". Much of the posts were about songwriting, recording, touring, trying to make it in Nashville. That was a fun and informative thread, often interrupted by some obnoxious contrarian to everything Nashville guy wrote.

I've heard bits of all that before, R9, but you fleshed it all out beautifully-thank you.

"Nashville Guy" was fantastic, R10.

I'm sure Naomi and Ashley clash politically, and it would be difficult to be around a family member who has such drastically different opinions.

On that reality show a few years ago, Wynonna was brought by the motel in West Hollywood, she and Naomi had to stay at when Naomi was being abused by her boyfriend. Wynonna had to leave, and was upset that she was brought there.

I'm pretty sure it was the same Motel, the Alta Vista?, where Jim Morrison stayed when he wrote LA Woman.

r9, was that goober Naomi was fucking named Elvis Presley? Wynonna and Lisa Marie Presley bear more than a passing resemblance.

They're extraordinarily beautiful and talented people who have overcome immense adversity. I've loved their music for my entire life. I'm also very proud to be related to them.

Naomi is such a girly girl. I can't see her approving of Ashley's unladylike ranting.

Wasn’t Wynnona a terrible bully to Ashley when they were kids? She seemed like a disturbed child on her way to fire-starting and animal-torturing.

Wynonna was annoyed at her mom for bringing her by that motel, and she was driven off early. That showed the dynamic of their relationship.

"Is it Over Yet?".......Wynonna, Voice to break your heart.....

There was that time when Naomi and Wynonna run Oprah, and Naomi mentioned something about Wynonna struggling with her weight. Wynonna said to her, "And you had to bring it up!"

When the Oprah cable network started, one of the first shows on the network was a reality show about Wy and Naomi trying to launch a comeback tour.

Yikes. Hard to watch. So much dysfunction. No one got out of that show unscathed.

If I recall correctly, the tension between mother and daughter forced Naomi off the tour after only a few shows.

“Judd, Ashley. "A cold fish." Hypocrite who slept with anyone she thought would advance her career. Heavily surgically augmented; "gobbles more antidepressants than you can imagine." Neglects her pets. (Though I've received a few e-mails from her fans and friends which mention how kind and sweet she is.) Treated the staff of at least one hotel in an "unnecessarily incredibly evil" fashion. Deliberately (?) humiliated Jason Patric in front of Matt Lauer and the watching audience. Linked with Michael Bolton, Jim Carrey, Dario Franchitti, Robert De Niro, and Matthew McConaughey. Tends to be with her costars.

Judd, Wynona. Switch-hitter.”

“Name-Ashley Judd Dirt-self-involved; cursed out a reporter who dared to ask her a personal question; likes to remind the press of her degree from the University of Kentucky - like it is Yale or something; banged Robert DeNiro; according to someone who lives in her town, she likes to take her granny to her films, and then will loudly 'explain' the movie ”

Judd is not Ashley legal name. it is a stage name

Lols! "The Todds" come on at 13:00!

Oh the Judds, Wyoming and Nairobi, haven't thought of them in years.

A former manager from my record store days with ties to Nashville and the country music scene said Naomi used to cruise around town in vintage cars,decked out like a retro country music queen even before they reall6 broke into the business. Implied she screwed her way into their recording contract. At that time, Ashley was regarded as the “normal” one.

After Mom left the husband, I seem to remember that’s when the first names were changed along with the last name and they basically lived off the grid for a few years.

I saw them on tour circa their second or third album. Winona had the voice, Naomi the personality.

we need more voice, less "personality"

talk about an abysmal family dynamic your every fart documented, the sister, that mother,...oh.

Personality = T&A

All that dysfunction but they don’t have endless cubicle jobs, worries about finances, or trouble getting promptly seated at fancy restaurants

Naomi trapped a man in marriage claiming he was the father of her unborn child (Wynonna). After divorcing him, she badmouthed him in her book and the press.

But it was later revealed, Naomi lied, and he wasn't the father. And she knew it, but lied to him anyways for the money.

I live in Nashville, and have dealt with both Wynona and Ashley a few times. I used to wait tables, and have waited on Wy a bunch. She could not be sweeter. She holds your hand while she's talking to you, ran out to her car to get me a copy of her upcoming cd. She was not at all what I expected. Ashley is rather cold and you can tell she's pretentious as hell, or at least she was when she was the new star. I would like to assume that getting older has made her less pretentious. I have heard horror stories about Naomi. Even Gerry House, a former incredibly popular country disc jockey has written about how horrendous and cruel she is, especially to her daughters, and he is not the kind of guy who says anything bad about ANYBODY, so it has to be assumed that she is a monster.

After Ashley's book basically exposed Naomi as being a narcissistic climber who would step over anyone to get what she wanted (including trapping an unsuspecting young wealthy guy into thinking he was the father of her child + basically deserting Ashley while she/Naomi chased her dream of being famous), Naomi tried to do damage control by putting out a book last year on her painful childhood and battle with depression. It was so transparent what the real motive was behind Naomi's newest book...

IMO Naomi has a narcissistic personality disorder and is a pathological liar who is always embellishing or outright lying about facts. Both Wy and Ashley hAve paid a big price for having such a dysfunctional upbringing.

Naomi is very damaged based on what her daughters have shared publicly about her over the years. And I don't trust a word out of her mouth.

Read my perfectly lined lips.

Naomi is quite the manipulative cunt. Her daughters deserve better.

As close to perfection as it can get. Gorgeous and heartbreaking.

Swoosie who?

Letterman once famously said Ashley was "the Judd they keep in the basement."

You have to respect Ashley for making a name for herself as an actress. You can't say that it was nepotism.

R22, I knew Wynonna had to be into women. She is/was a major Xena fan. I have never known any straight women be major Xena fans.

Here's Naomi at a Jeffrey Epstein pedophile Illuminati conference.

I wouldn't be surprised if she pimped her daughters, or got into pimping young girls later.

Check out the other photos of Naomi and the creepy friends of Jeffrey Epstein. You can even see two of Jeffrey Epstein's teen prostitutes posing with the billionaire types.

THE EDGE "BILLIONAIRES' DINNER" 2002

February 28, 2002

What preternatural power can prompt Rupert Murdoch, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Richard Dawkins, Neil Simon, Art Buchwald, Frank Gehry and Quincy Jones to sit for hours in a hot room contemplating the nano-sized split ends on gecko toes? ...

...Where else but at TED would Mr. Katzenberg, standing Armani-deep in sawdust with Spirit, his stallion and the namesake of his new animated film, be upstaged by Rex, a biologically inspired robot with springy legs and gecko-like feet capable of navigating the outer reaches of the Amazon — specifically, the leg of the Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos, a longtime Tedster?

It can get deep. Very deep. Steven Pinker, the eminent cognitive psychologist, found himself deep in conversation with the singer Naomi Judd about the role of the amygdala, the part of the brain that colors memory with emotion; something, he aptly noted, "that would not happen at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society."

John Brockman, Steven Pinker, Daniel C. Dennett, Katinka Matson, Richard Dawkins

Flying to the TED Conference in Monterey California with science philantropist Jeffrey Epstein

Steven Pinker, the eminent cognitive psychologist, found himself deep in conversation with the singer Naomi Judd about the role of the amygdala, the part of the brain that colors memory with emotion; something, he aptly noted, "that would not happen at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society."

Ironic thing is that Naomi is a Republican who supported Sarah Palin in 2008!

No matter what has gone on with these three, they have a bond that will not be broken. All three live on one thousand acres of land with three houses (one for each) nearby

What a beautiful clip of Is it Over Yet. She does have an incredible voice, and great pitch. It is a shame that songs like that are no longer recorded. To comment on a comment upstream that suggested Wynona's career sank because she gained weight: I think it was more because her music became uncommercial. She stopped recording songs like Is it over yet, and started singing more bluesy Bonnie Raitt-ish kind of songs, and they just aren't played on radio. Once she became more successful, she flexed her muscle a little more, and recorded what she wanted to, and her taste wasn't great or commercial.

MOMMA HAD SO MUCH FACELIFT SHE LOOK LIKE AN ALIEN

r40 Does that hair color exist in nature?

another really good Wynona performance, Song starts at 2:30-

I loved their music.

I'd never heard of Coca-Cola cake until Wynonna was on a food show and brought the host to one of her favorite local restaurants.

This is another fine Wynonna performance, and how cool that she got to perform it with the composer himself!

That said, I’ve always thought the Judds defined dysfunctional.

Wynonna's voice was very fine, so rich and strong and soulful. With a few voice lessons she could have been one of the greats. No time for that when Ma is pimping out her kids and driving round in cars with boys. The Judds are batshit crazy en famille. I admit I thought Ashley was very beautiful. Like Lindsay Lohan they have very classy noses, those Judds. They didn't buy em either.

Get out of my light mama.

I think Naomi and Wynona psychoanalyzed themselves into actual mental illness.

Her Touched By An Angel performance.

Ashley was definitely the It girl for awhile in the 90s

Ashley always strained so hard to come across as intelligent and well read. I saw that she recently attended a graduate program at Harvard so clearly she is smart but I've always found it fascinating that she felt such a huge need to indicate to others that she is articulate and well educated. She has always come across as very studied and artificial in her presentation. Always dropping in a $5 word when a standard 25¢ one would do. It's overkill and screams of insecurity.

I thought it was telling that, when they were interviewed before the most recent Oscars, Ashley referred to Mia Sorvino as something like "a fellow Harvard grad." People who are comfortable with themselves do not draw attention to their credentials. I used to work in advertising at a big fashion house, and it was always the most insecure models who wanted to impress you that they went to college and weren't just dumb pretty faces. I thought it was sad, because they thought people were judging them based on their intelligence. Ashley doesn't need to keep bringing Harvard up; she's accomplished what very few people accomplish. She should take delight in that.

Mama he's lazy. Lazier than me.

Ashley's best movie "Ruby in Paradise" (1993) is on youtube

In the beginning there was Wy's beautiful pure singing and sultry looks and her scene stealing creepy Ma.

Wow, you can really see how much Ashley looks like her mom in the clip in R63. They had some fantastic songs. Country music during that period was its best, I think. The songs were intelligent, thoughtful, and had beautiful folk-based melodies. I don't care for what is called country now; it celebrates a lifestyle I have no interest in celebrating.

MOma! MOma! Don' yew call me Christine no mo'! Fum now on, is WYYYYYY-nonna!

To me, Wynonna is the most talented of all of them. Her voice is incredible and she has an immediate connection with her songs (especially the good ones). I agree with r47 though that her music became very pedestrian. Her first solo album was fantastic - "My Strongest Weakness", "She is His Only Need", "No One Else on Earth". All great songs that complimented her voice.

Wynonna was also surprisingly funny when she appeared on Hope and Faith, Kelly Ripa/Faith Ford comedy. She appeared to have a better flair for comedy than her uptight sister.

I like watching this performance of "Blue Bayou" only because it's a testament to Linda Ronstadt's unique talent. Wynonna does her very best and it's good but nothing compared to Linda's.

r66 To everyone Wyn is the most talented one! Unless the talent is sucking the chrome off a tailpipe...

Naomi must have forced her Kewpie doll makeup on Ashley while she was growing up

I'm sure there's a lot of passive aggressive comments and eye-rolling during holiday dinners with the gals.

I love their song "Grandpa"...."tell me 'bout the good ol' days.."

I won a meet and greet { along with others } at a Wynonna concert in the Coachella Valley a few years back. I love Wy and the Judds since I was a teenager. They had this tent behind the stage all decked out in Arabian nights look with a glittery Wy banner for the photo area. Anyway, my husband and I walk up and greet her and she said to us " do you want the photo all together or do you want individual ? " I said, " no we are together. " She said, " are you a couple?" I said, " Yes, we got married recently. " She said, " that's fantastic. Congrats, boys." She said it in an Elvis/Mae West sorta way. It was fun.

Walking home one night in NYC some years back, I saw all three Judds getting out of an SUV on West 23rd Street--they were on their way to one of Ashley's film premieres. Those three ladies have incredible charisma.

"Deliberately (?) humiliated Jason Patric in front of Matt Lauer and the watching audience."

Deliberately?

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[quote]Ashley always strained so hard to come across as intelligent and well read. I saw that she recently attended a graduate program at Harvard so clearly she is smart but I've always found it fascinating that she felt such a huge need to indicate to others that she is articulate and well educated. She has always come across as very studied and artificial in her presentation. Always dropping in a $5 word when a standard 25¢ one would do. It's overkill and screams of insecurity.

I haven't seen her interviewed in a long time, but I remember also thinking it made her come across as eccentric. Love her as an actress though.

I like Wynonna's cover of Joni Mitchell's "Help Me".

I like this emotional country pop track from Wynonna.

I wouldn't have thought that Wynonna was a Joni fan, so I'm surprised she covered Help Me. It is in the wrong key for her, though; it's at least two steps above her sweet spot. The arrangement is also way too close to the original, even to the point of having the same drum entrance. You would think she would have changed the arrangement to make it sound more like her. It could have been slowed down, for instance, and been very effective as a Wynonna song. Now it just sounds like someone sang to the original track.

I wonder if all three of them hang out together.

Does anyone remember when Naomi was one of the judges on the Arsenio Hall version of Star Search? I loved the Judd's so she was a major reason I checked it out, but damn she drove me insane, and I have never respected her since. She would go on and on praising the person's performance really building them up and then give them a shitty score. I mean be a Simon and rip them to sheds and give a horrible score, or praise them and give them a great score, but praising them and then giving a horrible score just makes you look like a sadistic idiot.

They have a surprisingly interesting backstory.

R72: How sweet! I love your story.

Naomi is supposed to be as crazy as an outhouse rat.

Maybe Nashville Guy 1 has a story/stories?

Fab, r72!

I thought Naomi was just decorative.

I remember in the 90s my very straight suburban sister went to a Wynonna concert, I asked her what the crowd was like and she said there were a huge amount of lesbians there.

Their train wreck of an episode on Oprah was some great TV. Oprah didn't even try to referee the dysfunction. She just pulled up a chair like the rest of us and watched. It was basically Naomi and Ashley ganging up on Wynonna and tearing her little world apart. How she ever spoke to either of them after that I'll never know. It was mesmerizing. It ended with this. No one gives fake tears like Oprah.

[Quote] I asked her what the crowd was like and she said there were a huge amount of lesbians there.

Same as ALL Judds concerts. They had a massive Lesbo fan base.

that's because they had a massive lesbo on stage.

Yippee for Lesbos!

I just love that your very straight sister recognized the huge amount of lesbians in the audience. Weird.

^^^ duly noted, believe me.

YEARS ago, I used to go to lesbian night at the local gay country-western bar (with my lesbian friends), and whenever they'd play a Wynona song they'd go complete BONKERS.

Thanks for the heads up on the Naomi and Wynonna series on youtube.

You really get a sense of their relationship in it.

Ann Wilson and Wynonna should date each other. They could tour and record sapphic-laced, rhythm guitar heavy stadium anthems.

And not bother with so many weird, deadbeat dudes.

I want to spend Christmas at the Judd compound. Hayrides, Coca-Cola cake and staying up late under Wynonna's tree. Caroling, cookies, hot chocolate, and egg nog with Naomi. Presents and brunch at Ashley's.

Naomi is bat shit crazy

There is a Judds exhibit on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum in Nashville right now. Very interesting.

Has Naomi ever been recorded singing solo?

r101, in all actuality she cannot sing at all. She just moves her lips while Wynonna belts it out. Sly, huh?

Naomi shows how much of annoying mom should can be in the OWN series on youtube

I think Wynnona is an amazing singer and has amazing stage presence (very beautiful and charismatic). She was married to a child molester. Family is definitely dysfunctional but I think they live geographically pretty close to one another.

Not a great video, but gives a good perspective of how Naomi, Wynonna and Ashley all live next to each other in mansions.

Ashley is fucking notorious for being a batshit, constantly lying narcissist.

She inherited Naomi's crazy.

Naomi is indeed Nuts

Here is part 1 (of 6) of Oprah's docuseries about the Judds. Wynonna definitely comes off as more likable than Naomi. In part 5, they drive through Los Angeles with their therapist, reliving their time there. Wynonna says she remembers being both left alone and having random people at the house. Wynonna also says that Naomi had an abusive boyfriend and exposed them (W & Ashley) to domestic violence. At that point, Naomi needs to get out of the car and get a chicken wrap and won't talk about it.

I also watched the "Farewell Concert" and noticed that Naomi doesn't bring that much to the table, vocally. She's a glorified backup singer. Wynonna's voice is so powerful and amazing, Naomi is not necessary.

One of Wynonna's ex-husbands is a convicted child sex offender. Wynonna knew it when she married him but thought she could change him.

and everyone wondered why I was so crazy!

My brother is a kiddie-diddler, too. But it's pure coincidence - has NOTHING to do with deplorables and / or "Southern culture."

I love "Why Not Me"

The most lesbians I've ever seen in one place was at a Wynonna concert. Second most was at a Mary Chapin Carpenter concert.

Those were back in the 90s when I was into country music. The only artist I like today is Kacey Musgraves.

Taken during Ashley's ingenue phase

I miss Ashley Judd. Weinstein really fucked up her career.

I'm not into country music or a Judds fan, but I would be interested in watching a fly-on-the-wall docuseries based around the compound in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee where they live in separate houses. Different from the touring miniseries with Naomi and Wynonna, where Ashley appeared by name only.

There would be so many passive-aggressive comments, and you know Ashley rules the ranch and sets the overall vibe.

Christmas, summer nights, Sunday morning brunches and dinners would be reality TV gold.

Ashley still doesn't seem close with Naomi or Wynonna