Ashley Judd wrote in a New York Times op-ed that authorities made her feel “like a suspect” as they interrogated her while she held her dying mother’s “laboring body”.
The 54-year-old actress wrote, “It is now well known that law enforcement personnel should be trained in how to respond to and investigate cases involving trauma, but the men who were present left us feeling stripped of any sensitive boundary, interrogated and, in my case, as if I was a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide.”
She added that while she wanted to “comfort” her mother as her “life was fading,” she felt it “mandatory” cooperate with law enforcement.