Why did wynonna judd divorce

His son, Zac, also joined the family. For four years, Wynonna and her husband lived together happily until chaos struck.

On March 22, , Roach was arrested for attempted sexual assault of a minor. Five days after he was arrested, Wynonna filed for divorce.

Devastated by her partner's crime, the singer expressed her shock and disbelief. During an interview with Oprah, she shared:. It's a little tough because once burned, forever fears the fire. In an interview, Wynonna said her first response when it happened was to approach the case as a mother first and foremost. The singer also admitted that she knew what she was getting into when she married Roach as they both had their personal struggles, including addiction.

The mother-of-two said she was focused on letting justice and healing prevail as she worked on keeping her and her children safe and healthy. Fellow Country music legend Cactus Moser and Wynonna first crossed paths back in the '80s when she was still one half of the mother-daughter duo, "The Judds. Several decades, children, and marriages after their first meeting, the two musicians reconnected and started their fairytale romance in , two years after Wynonna left her second husband, Roach.

Moser, who had three children already, finally became Wynonna Judd's husband on June 10, , in an intimate wedding ceremony in her Tennessee home. The wedding was so small that only Wynonna and Moser's kids were in attendance. The singer did not even invite her famous sister, Ashley Judd, or her mother, Naomi. The ordeal, Wynonna says, broke her wide open. I didn't want to be hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Though she'll talk about her own pain, Wynonna says she's reluctant to speak about certain aspects of the case out of respect for the child involved.

There's more to it than I can tell you," she says. It's their story [to tell] when they're ready to talk. Still, she admits she did know the child. There's a bond. Wynonna says she's had to step back from the child and his or her family since the incident. I literally had to physically, emotionally and spiritually literally place them at the feet of Jesus.

Wynonna says she was determined to become better, not bitter, after her divorce. And if you'll let yourself lean into the pain, you'll wake up one day and you'll stop crying and you'll move forward,'" she says. Wynonna says Roach struggled with addiction, and her family had to learn to heal from that.

Judd and Moser formerly of Highway and now Judd's drummer met when they toured together in He recalls "feeling a spark," but Judd wasn't so sure: "He had a mullet ," she says with a laugh though Moser prefers to call it a "beautiful feathered hairdo". Plus, it was a little complicated. As Judd tells Us Weekly , "He was touring with Mom [ Naomi Judd ] and myself, and I was smitten then, [but] when you're touring with your mother, it's kind of hard to get a date.

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