Sad details have emerged regarding the death of Naomi Judd.
An autopsy report from the Nashville Medical Examiner’s office and obtained by Page Six Friday confirms that Judd died by suicide after being found “unresponsive in his home by the family” at 10:57 a.m. local time on April 30. Went.
The document also said, “He had an apparently self-shot wound and was taken to Williamson Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.”
According to the autopsy report, the gunshot “pierced through the right side of the skull and entered the skull through an penetration-type gunshot wound.”
Judd’s cause of death was suspected to have been suicide within days of the nation’s superstar’s death given the public’s battle with mental health.
Toxicology reports provided by the Nashville Medical Examiner’s Office revealed that the 76-year-old musician had several different medications in his system at the time of his death, including drugs used to treat insomnia, anti-Parkinson’s, depression, and seizures.
According to the medical examiner, the award-winning country musician also had the words “suit case” written in “faint pen ink on the palm of his left hand”.
Judd had a medical history of battling “significant” anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, chronic idiopathic pneumonitis, hepatitis C, high blood pressure and hypothyroidism, the doctor says.
The report also said, “Per family, the deceased had prior suicidal thoughts and recent life stressors.” A weapon and a note bearing a suicide signal were found from the deceased at the spot.
His daughter Ashley Judd confirmed on “Good Morning America” that her mother had shot herself and that the actress was the one who “discovered” her deceased.
“She used a weapon. My mom used a shotgun,” the 54-year-old “Double Jeopardy” star told Diane Sawyer in May. “So this is the piece of information that we are very uncomfortable sharing.”
Earlier this month, surviving members of Judd’s family requested the “graphic” way in which records of his death be sealed.
Ashley, her sister, Winona Judd, and Naomi’s husband Larry Strickland said in court documents obtained by NBC that releasing investigative records may have caused them “emotional distress, pain and mental anguish.”
A representative for Naomi’s estate did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment on the findings of the star’s autopsy report.
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