The country icon said Judd and her daughters were “like sisters to me.”
Dolly Partonis mourning the loss of her close friend and fellow music iconNaomi Judd, whodied Saturday at 76.
In a moving Instagram post Monday, Parton wrote, “Naomi and I were so close.
Wynonna Judd, Dolly Parton, and Naomi Judd.Robin Platzer/Getty Images
We were very similar.
We were the same age and both Capricorns.
We loved big hair, makeup and music.”
She added that Judd and her daughters,WynonnaandAshley, had always been “like sisters to me.”
Parton went on to congratulate Wynonna for her and her mother’sinduction into the Country Music Hall of Fameon Sunday.
“Congratulations and condolences are both in order.
Just know that I will always love you.”
At the induction ceremony Sunday, a tearful Wynonna gave a short speech honoring her mother.
“It’s a very strange dynamic to be this broken and this blessed.”
Naomi and Wynonna scored 14 No.
1 songs and won five Grammys as a mother-daughter duo known as the Judds.
Read Parton’s heartfelt message to the Judd family above.
