Naomi Judd’s granddaughter will miss the country music legend’s funeral because she’s serving eight years in prison for cooking and dealing meth
- Grace Kelley, 26, the meth-dealing daughter of Waynonna Judd never asked to be released for the memorial service
- She’s serving eight years behind bars for cooking, distributing, dealing and possession meth. She was arrested in 2016 at the age of 20
- Kelley could have petitioned the Nashville prison warden where she’s incarcerated to attend the funeral of her grandmother, but never did
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Naomi Judd’s wayward granddaughter will not make it to the country music legend’s funeral because she still behind bars serving an eight-year prison stretch for cooking and dealing meth.
Grace Kelley, 26, the daughter of Wynonna Judd, never asked to be released from behind bars in Tennessee, Dorinda Carter, spokeswoman for the state Department of Correction, told DailyMail.com.
‘We have not received a request,’ Carter said. ‘No one has asked.’
The Grammy-winning singer died of suicide at the age of 76 on Saturday after a lifelong bout with severe depression. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday.
It’s unclear when her funeral will be held.
Kelley was arrested in 2020, and sentenced to eight years behind bars. She was granted parole in 2021, but was soon back in prison after violating her parole conditions.
Judd granddaughter Grace Kelley, 26, is currently serving eight years in Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville for cooking and dealing meth
Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died at age 76
Carter said that the warden of the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville often entertains furloughing inmates for extreme circumstances like a death in the family so that she may attend a church service or a wake in a funeral home.
The request can come from a family member, lawyers or ‘the inmate herself,’ Carter said, but no one asked.
Kelley has been in trouble with the law for several years.
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She was first arrested around the time of her 20th birthday in June 2016 for the manufacture, distribution and sale of methamphetamine, according to Tennessee Department of Correction records.
After pleaded guilty, she served 30 days was let go on probation a year later.
Naomi Judd, 76, died by suicide on Saturday, multiple sources told People magazine. Above, the singer attends the 2022 CMT Music Awards on April 11
The Judds were to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday
Wynonna Judd, left, and Naomi Judd arrive at the CMT Music Awards on Monday, April 11, 2022, at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn.
Kelley could not stay clean, however, and was rearrested in April 2020, violating the terms of her probation. She was released again in April 2021 under the condition that she go through drug rehabilitation and submit to a regular drug test.
Again in December 2021, she violated the terms of her release and was sentenced to serve the remainder of her term behind bars.
Her next parole hearing date is set for December of this year and her final release date will be in April 2024.
Grace, and her brother Elijah, are products of Wynonna Judd’s first marriage to businessman Arch Kelly III. The couple divorced in 1998 after three years of marriage.
Her mother has supported her through all of her legal turmoil.
‘I will tell you this. My daughter is the strongest Judd woman in our ‘herstory,’ she told Fox News in February 2020. ‘She’s healthier than I was at 23. How she got there – I would not go that way, but I was also sequestered.’
‘That could have been me if I didn’t have music,’ she added.
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Source: Daily Mail
