NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The circle of relatives of nation singer Naomi Judd filed a court docket petition Friday to seal police studies and recordings made all the way through the investigation into her dying.

The circle of relatives filed the petition in Williamson County Chancery Court, pronouncing the data include video and audio interviews with kinfolk within the rapid aftermath of Judd’s dying, and liberating such main points would inflict “vital trauma and irreparable hurt.”

The petition was once filed on behalf of her husband Larry Strickland and her daughters Ashley and Wynonna Judd. A consultant supplied it to The Associated Press with the circle of relatives’s permission.

Judd, 76, died on April 30 at her house in Tennessee. Her daughter Ashley has up to now stated that her mom she killed herself, and the circle of relatives stated she was once misplaced to “the illness of psychological sickness.”

The court docket submitting additionally integrated information about how Ashley Judd discovered her mom alive after she shot herself. Ashley stayed through her mom’s facet for half-hour till assist arrived.

The petition asks the court docket to ban the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office from liberating the data for a number of causes, together with that the disclosure would come with her scientific data and that the circle of relatives has a proper to privateness.

Tennessee public data legislation usually lets in native legislation enforcement data to be launched, however police have the discretion to carry data whilst an investigation is ongoing. Once an investigation is closed, that exemption now not applies.

Strickland and Ashley Judd each submitted statements outlining their issues in regards to the data. Strickland stated within the court docket submitting that he was once unaware that his interviews with legislation enforcement have been being recorded and that he shared non-public and personal knowledge to help within the investigation.

Ashley Judd stated she was once in “medical surprise, lively trauma and acute misery” when she spoke with legislation enforcement and that she didn’t need the ones data, together with video, audio and pictures, to completely keep within the public area and hang-out their circle of relatives for generations.

The petition stated that media shops in Tennessee had already filed public data requests in her case.

Judd’s dying the day ahead of she was once because of be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame has garnered intense nationwide media consideration on the reason for her dying, but in addition at the submitting of property and can forms.

A commentary from the circle of relatives stated that incorrect information in regards to the Judds was once being unfold they usually sought after to state the info, whilst additionally protective their grieving procedure.

“Our circle of relatives continues to grieve in combination privately, in cohesion and neighborhood, spotting our mom’s good looks and skills as a present to the arena,” the circle of relatives commentary stated. “There has been incorrect information circulated as we proceed to mourn and we lament that. We ask information organizations most effective to hide info. And as we acknowledge different households suffering as a cherished one faces psychological well being crises, we inspire them to hunt assist via NAMI: The National Alliance on Mental Illness to be had 24 hours an afternoon at 800-950-6264.”

Naomi and her daughter Wynonna Judd scored 14 No. 1 songs in a profession that spanned just about 3 a long time. The red-headed duo blended the normal Appalachian sounds of bluegrass with polished pop stylings, scoring hit after hit within the Nineteen Eighties. Wynonna led the duo together with her robust vocals, whilst Naomi supplied harmonies and trendy seems to be on degree.

The Judds launched six studio albums and an EP between 1984 and 1991 and gained 9 Country Music Association Awards and 7 from the Academy of Country Music. They earned a complete of 5 Grammy Awards in combination on hits like “Why Not Me” and “Give A Little Love,” and Naomi earned a 6th Grammy for writing “Love Can Build a Bridge.”