Ashley Judd said her mother Naomi Judd fought an “untreated and undiagnosed mental illness” for years before she died by suicide on April 30, 2022.

The 56-year-old actor opened up about her mother’s story Tuesday while promoting the Biden Administration’s newly formed National Strategy for Suicide Prevention at the White House.

“I’m here because I am my beloved mother’s daughter and on the day she died, which will be the two-year anniversary in one week, the disease of mental illness was lying to her and with great terror convinced her that it would never get better,” Judd shared during an address to the panel, according to People.

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