The daughter of nation music legend Wynonna Judd says she was the sufferer of sexual abuse by the hands of her former stepfather, and has accused her well-known mom of failing to guard her.
Grace Kelley, 29, made the troubling claims whereas talking to the Every day Progress, a Virginia-based information outlet, in July. Within the interview, she stated she was molested by D. R. Roach, whom Judd was married to from 2003 to 2007, when she was 10 years previous.
“When they found out in counseling what he had done to me, they’re like, ‘Wait a minute. We’re going to report this to law enforcement,’” Kelley stated, in accordance with Individuals. “When he was arrested and it came out in the news, that’s when she divorced him.”
She went on to notice: “So is my mom rich? Yeah, she’s so rich that she was able to sweep me under the rug and abuse me and then cover it all up. I don’t want to talk bad about my mom, but we’ll just say she’s a good performer. She was never a mother.”
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A consultant for Judd didn’t instantly reply to a HuffPost request for remark.
Judd filed for divorce from Roach ― her second husband and former bodyguard ― in 2007, shortly after he’d been arrested in Abilene, Texas, on three counts of aggravated sexual battery on a minor below the age of 13. Roach’s sufferer was by no means publicly recognized.
In keeping with Reuters, Judd launched an announcement on her web site on the time through which she stated she was “obviously devastated” on the costs leveled towards Roach, including: “We will move forward with our faith, family and our friends to find resolution to this difficult situation.”
Talking to Girls House Journal later that yr, the five-time Grammy winner stated she “knew what I was getting into” when she married Roach and “tried to change it.”
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“I know the people I chose, I know why I chose them and I really thought that I could change people through loving them enough. It doesn’t work that way,” she defined within the interview, per Individuals.
Kelley ― whose father is Judd’s first husband, Arch Kelley III ― has confronted quite a few private challenges in recent times. Lately, she served six weeks in jail after being charged with felony grand larceny and driving with out a license in October of final yr. Lately, she’s a mother to a 3-year-old daughter, Kaliyah, and has been centered on staying sober after relocating to Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trying forward, Kelley informed the Every day Progress she’s at work on a memoir titled “Pronoia” through which she’ll share the “difficult story” of her childhood in Nashville.
“I believe that now’s my time,” she defined. “I never had a voice, and I was iffy about talking about all this stuff, but no matter what is said about me, the Bible says the truth will set you free.”
