Both Ashley and Wynonna Judd provide new interviews as well as exclusive access and unreleased songs to four-part series out May 10
The Judd family — mother-daughter singing duo Naomi and Wynonna and actress Ashley — will be the focus of an upcoming Lifetime docuseries arriving next month.
The Judd Family: Truth Be Told, premiering May 10, “reveals the complex story of the Judds’ including their triumphs and tragedies across several decades,” Lifetime said in a synopsis.
“From Naomi’s beginnings in Kentucky as a young teen mom, then known as Dianna, struggling to survive with her young daughters, the doc illustrates how the famous country music mother-daughter duo of Naomi and Wynonna Judd came to be and where Ashley stood at the height of Naomi and Wynonna’s fame. Untold truths emerge, illustrating what tied them together, and what also drove them a part.”
Lifetime also shared the new trailer for the docuseries, which, in addition to new interviews with Wynonna and Ashley, features interviews with family and friends like Reba McEntire, who says in the trailer that the Judds made “heavenly music” together.
The Judd Family: Truth Be Told also boasts “exclusive access to rare family footage and photos, unreleased songs, and voicemails that the Judd women left for one another further illustrate the unique relationship between mothers and daughters, the cyclical nature of generational trauma and the strength of familial bonds,” Lifetime said.
Naomi Judd died in April 2022, with Ashley later revealing that her mother “used a firearm” and died by suicide. “My mother — our mother — couldn’t hang on until she was inducted into the [Country Music] Hall of Fame by her peers. That is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her,” Ashley said a few weeks later in a Good Morning America interview. “Because the barrier between the regard in which they held her couldn’t penetrate into her heart, and the lie that the disease told her was so convincing.”
Ashley specified “the lie” was “that you’re not enough, that you’re not loved, that you’re not worthy. Her brain hurt. It physically hurt.”