There's been this six part Sunday night serial show on TLC about the Judd's--you know, the mother Naomi, and her daughter Wynonna, "Wy" who compose a famous singing duo. They both have the same shade of eye blinding red hair that must be wigs (you never seen a hint of roots.)

So the duo has been on the road, in one of those fancy touring buses playing in different cities around the country. There's a phychiatrist on the bus with them who's gonna try to help the duo mend fences and heal bad feelings they have for each other. Whoa Boy! Cute little mother Naomi, who is in remission with Hepatitis C, is totally self absorbed.

Her gigantic but talented daughter Wynonna brings up her childhood and how she and now actress sister Ashley were often left alone for long periods in a rented apartment in a seedy part of Los Angeles with no food in the house. Naomi kept saying "I didn't have any girlfriends--name one girlfriend I had," Which was off the wall. Wy wasn't talking about girlfriends--but rather men and strangers who wandered in and out of the apartment.

While on tour, A book written by Ashley came on the market, where she wrote that Naomi ignored her complaints of molestation and rape. Wy also had a story of running out of the apartment into the night because of some pervert. What I'd really like to know is what was going on in Naomi's sex life--it seems like she was a pistol. It seems Wy didn't know whom her real father was til she was grown.
Lots of sturm and drang and capital "D" for dysfunction in that family.

Personally, I'd rather hear them on the radio singing once in a while, and be left in the dark about the ignoring absentee mother and the damaged daughters. Sometimes baring everything to the world and hanging out the dirty family laundry is uncomfortable and embarrassing for the listener. And though Naomi seemed contrite, at least for the camera, a leopard doesn't change its spots, and you can bet she's still the same egotistical selfish person she always was. As Wy said "It's always about YOU, Mom."

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