Wynonna Judd<\/a> only learned the identity of her biological father when she was 30.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Wynonna Judd was 30 before she found out who her biological father was<\/p>\n
The 60-year-old singer – who had a fraught relationship with her late mother, Naomi Judd – grew up believing her mom’s first husband, Michael Ciminella, was her dad but found out the truth decades later.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Lifetime docuseries ‘The Judd Family: Truth Be Told’, Wynonna said: \u201cI knew that Michael didn\u2019t like me and Mom didn\u2019t really love him.<\/p>\n
\u201cMom told me, \u2018I was 16 and I was a virgin, I was home alone and [Wynonna\u2019s biological father] came over and took advantage of me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Naomi – who had married Michael when she was just 17 years old and pregnant with Wynonna – eventually told her daughter that she had loved the man, Charlie Jordan, but their relationship didn’t work out.<\/p>\n
\nAnd Wynonna admitted she was “really angry” that the truth had been kept from her for so long, and she believes the secret sparked a lot of her mother’s behaviour towards her.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cThere was all this pressure and everybody kinda freaked out, and he went off to join the Army.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cLook, I understand it, but I was really angry with her about it. I was so devastated that I thought there was a part of me that\u2019s missing. The glass is half empty.<\/p>\n
\n“Learning about my birth father, I feel more like him than I do my mother in certain areas. And I think Mom was terrified of that half of me because she couldn\u2019t control it. She couldn\u2019t bring it in and train it. That\u2019s why Mom was very hard on me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nCharlie passed away in 2000 at the age of 56 but his daughter never met him and she believes he didn’t feel “worthy” enough to be part of her life.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cMy understanding is that Charlie knew about me and that he always felt like he couldn\u2019t do anything about it.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI guess he didn\u2019t feel he was worthy or whatever, like, \u2018Wynonna\u2019s got this life and I can\u2019t just show up in it.\u2019 <\/p>\n
\n“And for a while, I wasn\u2019t ready to go meet him. What if he\u2019s a jerk? What if we don\u2019t make a connection? What if, what if, what if? Fear, fear, fear. But when I finally decided to, it was too late.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nWynonna decided not to go to Charlie’s funeral because she felt it would be “too much” for his family.<\/p>\n
\nNaomi took her own life in April 2022 at the age of 76.<\/p>\n
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