Wynonna Judd talks with Anderson Cooper about feeling ‘broken and blessed’ with grief

0 October 15, 2026 21:00

Wynonna Judd is a country music superstar who got her first record contract at 18, singing with her mother Naomi. In this moving conversation, she talks with Anderson Cooper about her mother’s suicide in 2022, grieving the father she never knew about until she was 30, and her estrangement from her daughter.

0:00 Wynonna Judd releases new album on life’s highs and lows
2:49 Wynonna on living with grief since birth
5:46 Naomi’s search for fame through Wynonna’s voice
9:53 Wynonna learns the truth about her father
15:09 Wynonna shares a new song about her father
21:12 Naomi’s struggle with depression
25:06 The power of acknowledging you are ‘broken’
28:28 Wynonna on her daughter’s battle with drug addiction
32:59 Wynonna’s new song to her mother
34:59 Wynonna and Anderson on speaking to deceased parents

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