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Naomi Judd and Larry Strickland endured so much all through their marriage.
In The Judd Family: Truth Be Told (airing Saturday, Could 10 and Sunday, Could 11), the nation star’s widower confirmed that she as soon as shot a gun at her husband, 79, after studying he’d cheated on her.
In a voiceover of her 1993 memoir Love Can Construct a Bridge, Judd defined how the pair have been “wildly, madly, passionately in love,” however her husband was by no means house.
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She then recalled a girl from the Northeast calling their house in Nashville within the Nineteen Eighties, saying how a lot “she beloved and missed” Strickland.
When he returned house, Judd recalled tearing up images of the 2 of them and throwing his belongings right into a rubbish bag of their yard.
Throughout a tense second within the docuseries, Strickland rewatched a scene from the Love Can Construct a Bridge TV film the place Kathleen York, who performs Naomi, shoots Bruce Greenwood, who performs Strickland, when she finds out he is cheated on her.
Afterward, Strickland mirrored on the second and confirms the occasions.
“Nicely, it actually occurred,” he stated. “That is all I can say. That is all I am gonna say. It occurred.”
Judd and Strickland met in 1979 and tied the knot a decade later in Could 1989.
The pair have been married for 33 years earlier than the “River of Time” singer died at the age of 76 in April 2022.
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In an interview with PEOPLE in December 2022, Strickland mirrored on the time he spent caring for his late spouse.
“For the previous 13 years or extra, I used to be along with her 24/7,” he stated. “I by no means left the home with out Naomi realizing the place I used to be going and once I can be again. So far as taking good care of myself, I am unsure that matches my state of affairs. When you might have a mate that has a psychological sickness, you stroll that path with them.”
The Judd Household: Reality Be Informed, directed by Alexandra Dean, airs on Lifetime Could 10 and 11 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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