The actress talks about her attempts to change the state statute that allowed media outlets access and the retraumatization she experienced after some news sources published pictures of the scene of her mother’s death.
The actor Ashley Judd would be having a hard time getting over her mother’s death last year, even if she could do it in secrecy and seclusion.
The Grammy-winning country musician’s daughter told the Guardian in an interview on Friday that a few sensational, insensitive, and — according to experts — dangerous tabloid media reports containing graphic details about Naomi Judd’s death forced her to “double down” on the trauma counseling work she had already been doing while grieving.