Actress and activist Ashley Judd is supporting mental health initiatives on behalf of herself and her late mother Naomi Judd, USA Today reported April 24. Nearly two years after the country music legend's death by suicide, her daughter Ashley Judd appeared on a panel at the White House on April 23 to back the Biden administration's newly formed National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (see related story on page one). “I'm here because I am my beloved mother's daughter and on the day she died, which will be the two‐year anniversary in one week, the disease of mental illness was lying to her, and with great terror convinced her that it would never get better,” the “Someone Like You” actress said. Naomi Judd died in April 2022 at age 76. The country singer's daughters Ashley Judd, 56, and Wynonna Judd, 59, shared the news, saying, “We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness.” Judd said her mother “lived most of her life with an untreated and undiagnosed mental illness that lied to her and stole from her. It stole from our family, and she deserved better,” she added. “I know the feeling of not wanting to be here, but I had a different experience because I went to treatment in 2006,” Ashley Judd shared. “I've been in good recovery for 18 years and I've had a different outcome than my mother. I carry a message of hope and recovery.”