Wynonna Judd paid tribute to her late mom, Naomi Judd, at the 2023 CMT Awards.
“Mama, you need to be here, and I miss you, and I love you and I don’t understand,” the singer said as she pointed to the sky while performing “I Want to Know What Your Love Is” with Ashley McBryde on Sunday.
The 57th annual awards ceremony was an extra emotional one for Wynonna, as the 2022 show was the last public event Naomi attended before she died by suicide.
It’s an anniversary and we all have anniversaries. I’m not terminally unique,” Wynonna, 58, told Entertainment Tonight backstage. “We all have something that we look at and go what the hell? What’s going on? I don’t understand and that was my ‘I don’t understand.'”
The “Mama He’s Crazy” singer added that it’s been a “bittersweet time” for her, since the anniversary of her mom’s death rolls around the same time as her granddaughter, Kaliyah, turns a year old.
“I’ve got both agony and ecstasy happening,” Wynonna shared.
