Ashley Judd Puts Her Home Up For Rent Following Naomi Judd’s Suicide

It looks like Ashley Judd is still struggling to heal from the death of her mother, Naomi Judd, last year.

The 55-year-old actress has reportedly moved out of her Tennessee home and has put her house up for rent after her therapist reportedly suggested that she “shake up her life.”

On Tuesday, Radar Online reported that the “Olympus Has Fallen” actress has put her Tennessee home up for rent for $10,000 a month. The actress reportedly can’t fathom living on the same property in Franklin where Naomi reportedly shot herself in the head in April 2022. Ashley was reportedly the first one to find her mother following the tragic suicide.

A source told Radar that Ashley “has been in intensive therapy ever since Naomi’s suicide, and one thing her therapist suggested to get her out of her funk was to shake up her life and start anew.” The source also noted that Ashley’s stepfather, Larry Strickland, still remains on the property, although they noted that the two have a close relationship.

Earlier this month, the “Double Jeopardy” actress took to Instagram to share a whole Instagram carousel full of photos from the ancient city of Ephesus. The historic library is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, as Ashley explained in her caption.

“Hadrian’s Fountain was beautiful to me (even tho my dorky ears are sticking out from underneath my hat). The next is the town square, where public policy was discussed & debated (w/ men only tho. Grrr.,” she wrote. “The little house: profound spiritual experience, where Mary, the Mother of Jesus lived after her son’s execution.”

“Next, hand made from honest to goodness scratch rugs by Etrim, a generational family collective. The matriarch cooks an old fashioned breakfast, then you see the 2,800 year old craft from washing the wool, spinning the silk, dying from plants pigments, and double knotting on handmade looms,” she added.

The rug-making of particular interest to her Instagram followers. “Watching these rugs being hand knotted, often in memorized patterns, made me realize how much more we should be paying the artists who create them!” one fan commented. “The work that goes into a rug, often beginning with raising the sheep who provide the wool is mind blowing. Thanks for highlighting their artistry.”

In April 2023, Ashley took to Instagram to share a thoughtful tribute to her late mother on her birthday, the first that she would celebrate following her late mother’s tragic passing. "My birthday. Everyone who loves me is making it as soft (cake in bed) and precious as they can, as my mind can't help but calculate that on my last birthday, Mom was a scant 11 days from her death by crushing suicide," she wrote in the caption. "So it is my first without her. I think of her constantly. I am looking at my baby announcement & sitting with her tender joy in sharing about me."

"I am recalling her annual rite of recounting to me the day of my birth, all the details that were so precious to her," she continued. "During my birthday at some point she would glow, patting my arm, 'you were brown when you came out, surprised me so, and the sweetest, easiest baby.... how I loved you, I had to swat peoples` hands they wanted to touch you,' and patter on about my baby stories."

She also recalled her last birthday with her mother in April 2022. "Pop and she came over with a roast chicken and cornbread, and we shared a small meal, the 3 of us," she explained. "Mom laid down a lot. We had cake and in spite of being weak and preoccupied with the disease that was eating at her, she had a gorgeous card for me and I knew, as ever, how much she loved me. I know that today, too, even as she breathes in the infinite mercy of God."

"Thank you, Mom, for all my birthdays so far, and for celebrating me: for holding me at bedtime and whispering in my ear, 'Ashley, you are an extraordinary woman,' and letting me be your Sweetpea. What more does a birthday girl need, than memories of a mother like that? And this is how she saw and loved me, first awake, hair never brushed, ready to share our dreams," she concluded. "For you, Mom. For you."