Ashley Judd on her fight to keep images of suicide private: ‘We can avert misery and death for others’

Actor speaks of the retraumatization she endured after some news outlets published images of the scene of mother’s death and her push to reform the state law that gave media outlets access

Even if she could do it in anonymity and privacy, the actor Ashley Judd would be struggling to recover from the suicide of her mother last year.

But a couple of sensational, insensitive and – experts say – dangerous tabloid media reports containing graphic details about Naomi Judd’s death forced the Grammy-winning country musician’s daughter to “double down” on the trauma counseling work that she’s done as she has grieved, she told the Guardian in an interview Friday.

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