Keeping it real, Wynonna then added with her typical tough humor, “ along with the other fans changed our relationship, because we had to get along for that two hours onstage. Your beautiful cards are getting through to us.” Wynonna also thanked their loyal fans, including one Utah woman named Anne sitting in the Ryman audience, who’d been a member of the Judds fan club since 1983 and was actually in the audience the first time Naomi and Wynonna sang onstage together. Ashley first sincerely thanked the Judds’ fanbase, telling them, “Mom loved you. The proceedings soon took a more comical turn once it was the Judd daughters’ turn to speak. Needless to say, it brought great, great pleasure and great comfort to me,” Strickland mused after reading the stranger’s kind message aloud, while Wynonna and Ashley stood beside him.
“Out of the blue, the email the day after she passed away. Strickland, who would have celebrated his 33rd wedding anniversary with Naomi on May 6, spoke first, sharing the sweet story of receiving an email from a man named David who once sat next to Naomi on a Chicago-to-Nashville flight and had fond memories of the 90-minute “entertaining, fascinating, and enlightening” conversation they had shared. Naomi’s older daughter and Judds bandmate, Wynonna Judd, described the Ryman crowd as her “family of choice,” but at the end of the emotional evening, when Wynonna, her sister Ashley Judd, and Naomi’s second husband Larry Strickland took the stage, they offered a glimpse into the complex but ultimately loving actual Judds family dynamic - moving the star-studded audience to both laughter and tears. Country stars like Ashley McBryde, Brad Paisley, Carly Pearce, Emmylou Harris & Allison Russell, Martina McBride, Jamey Johnson, and Little Big Town performed and/or spoke onstage at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, while celebrity friends like Bono, Morgan Freeman, Oprah Winfrey, Reba McEntire, Reese Witherspoon, and Salma Hayek sent video messages celebrating the 76-year-old singer’s life and legacy. On Sunday afternoon, CMT aired “Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration,” the live, commercial-free public memorial for the Judds’ icon, who died by suicide on April 30.
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