Ashley Judd is opening up about a moment when she claims her late mom, Naomi Judd, wrote President Donald Trump’s name on her inner thigh before a 2019 surgery.
“She wrote it in her Sharpie that she signed autographs in, and she wrote the word ‘Trump’ on her inner thigh,” Ashley, 58, claimed during the Thursday, November 12, episode of her “A Table Prepared” podcast with cohost and pastor Dan Scott. “This was right before the second election in which he ran.”
Ashley shared that she and her mom “talked about this a lot,” noting that she tried to convince her mother not to discuss politics in the operating rome where they might be an “orderly with immigration status or a person of color there to facilitate in this operation and this white woman with a lot of status and a lot of fame and a lot of prestige — she makes a big impact everywhere she goes, especially on Williamson County Hospital — had the word Trump written on her inner thigh.”
“And she didn’t take that position with me,” Ashley continued. “I won’t quote what she said back to me, but we differed in that.”
Ashley recalled the moment as one in which she ultimately “chose to let it go,” adding that she felt like she “took that conversation as far as [she] could.”
“What my mom really wanted me to do was to see that from her perspective,” she explained. “And I could, but I also still think about that orderly, whoever else was there. I even tried to frame it as a title seven workplace discrimination kind of situation because, what if someone didn’t agree with the doctor but they weren’t allowed to disagree with the doctor? You’re bringing politics into an operating room.”
She continued, “And that’s the kind of thing that my mom and I talked about all the time. All the time. And I love that for us.”
Naomi died by suicide in 2022 at age 76. She is survived by daughters Ashley and Wynonna Judd. Naomi welcomed Wynonna with ex-boyfriend Charles Jordan in 1964 before marrying Michael Ciminella and welcoming Ashley in 1968. Four years later, Naomi and Ciminella divorced. Wynonna, 62, learned of her biological father later in life and did not connect with him before his death in 2000.
In September, Wynonna explained that she and Ashley aren’t “connected” at the moment and said her sister hadn’t heard her latest album, The Hard Truth.
“We’re taking a break, which all families can relate to,” Wynonna told People at the time. “She’s doing her thing, and I’m doing mine.”
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