Late country star Naomi Judd shot a gun at her husband after he cheated on her
Late Grammy Award-winning country singer Naomi Judd shot at her husband, Larry Strickland, after finding out that he was cheating on her, the widowed husband has confirmed.
On May 10th, the first episode of the new docuseries The Judd Family: Truth Be Told aired. In it, Strickland admitted that the ‘Girls Night Out’ singer once shot a gun at him after discovering the affair.
The docuseries painted a picture of the scene. One day in the 1980s, a woman called their home stating how much she “loved and missed” Strickland. When Strickland returned home, he found Judd ripping up photos of the two of them. She was throwing his items into a large garbage bag.
At one point during the episode, Strickland is watching a scene from the movie Love Can Build a Bridge. The actor playing Judd shoots the actor playing himself after discovering he cheated on her. Coyly, Strickland confirmed that the event wasn’t made up.
“Well, it really happened,” he said. “That’s all I can say. That’s all I’m gonna say. It happened.”
Naomi Judd, who is also the mother of actor Ashley Judd, met in 1979 and got married 10 years later. They remained together for 33 years until the star passed away from suicide in 2022.
Her daughters, Wynonna and Ashley Judd, confirmed their mother’s passing in a statement that read: “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness. 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.”
Wyonna spoke of this in the docuseries, speculating that it could be due to “generational trauma”. She said: “One of the reasons I have decided that Mom left this world is because of trauma, generational trauma, family stuff that never got healed or fixed,” she said.
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