The funeral of Grammy-winning country singer and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Naomi Judd is set to be live on CMT this weekend.
“Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration” is the name of the event, which is inspired by the Judds’ fifth studio album and the song of the same name.
It will take place at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and is intended to “celebrate the incredible life and legacy of country music great Naomi Judd.”
CMT and Sandbox Live are collaborating with the Judd family to present Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration.
The public memorial ceremony will be shown as a commercial-free special on CMT on Sunday, May 15th at 6 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. CT.
According to PEOPLE, Naomi died on Saturday at the age of 76 following a long battle with mental illness. She was most known for being part of the Judds, a mother-daughter combo.
Ashley and Wynonna Judd, Judd’s daughters, revealed her death to the Associated Press over the weekend.
“Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to mental illness,”.
They added that “We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that she was loved by her public as we loved her. We are in unknown territory.”
Naomi Judd had been struggling with mental depression for many years before her demise.
In 2018, the legendary country music star also wrote an open letter about suicide for MentalHealth Awareness Week.
“To understand this issue better, we have to bring the study of suicide into mainstream neuroscience and treat the condition like every other brain disorder,” she wrote. “People who commit suicide are experiencing problems with mood, impulse control, and aggression, all of which involve discrete circuits in the brain that regulate these aspects of human experience, but we still don’t understand how these circuits go haywire in the brains of suicide victims.”
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