Wynonna Judd shared a heartbreaking message to her late mother Naomi Judd on the 2023 CMT Music Awards.
Whereas performing a rendition of Foreigner‘s tune “I Need to Know What Love Is” with Ashley McBryde throughout the award show‘s tribute to the late Judds singer, Wynonna mirrored on her mom’s loss of life.
“Mama, it is advisable to be right here,” the singer, 58, mentioned throughout the April 2 occasion in Austin, Texas. “And I miss you, and I really like you and I do not perceive.”
It was an particularly emotional second because the final public occasion Naomi attended earlier than her loss of life was the 2022 CMT Music Awards final April. She died by suicide at age 76 later that month, at some point earlier than she and Wynonna were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame for his or her work because the musical duo The Judds.
“Properly, it is a 12 months,” Wynonna advised Entertainment Tonight backstage after her efficiency. “It is an anniversary and all of us have anniversaries. I am not terminally distinctive. All of us have one thing that we have a look at and go, ‘What the hell? What is going on on? I do not perceive.’ And that was my ‘I do not perceive.’ I went forwards and backwards between hitting a very excessive word and being a diva or saying what was on my coronary heart and it took over and so right here we’re.”