You could say that Wynonna Judd has had to deal with trauma since she was in the womb, considering that her biological father, Charles Jordan, abandoned her before she was even born. Her mother, Naomi Judd, revealed on the "Country Music Success Stories" podcast that she had been date raped. She added, "I called him to tell him to say I thought I was pregnant, he said, 'Well, tough luck kiddo,' and he hung up the phone and we never heard from him." To make matters worse, Wynonna didn't know about Jordan until she was 30 years old, and he died before she could meet him.
Wynonna, whose real name is Christina Claire Ciminella, actually thought the man her mother married afterward, Michael Ciminella, was her real father. It doesn't sound like he was much better though, because as Naomi said, "I had to marry the town jerk to have a roof and a name." That marriage didn't last — a few years after Wynonna's half-sister, actor Ashley Judd, was born, Naomi divorced Ciminella and raised her daughters mostly on her own.
It was during that time that the Judds were close to being homeless. They moved to Kentucky where things were seemingly not much better. They had lived in poverty for a while, sometimes without electricity, plumbing, or heat — let alone entertainment. "We lived in Appalachia," Wynonna told NPR, adding "Nothing to do, no TV, no telephone."
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