Wynonna Judd is confronting the painful consequences of trying to rescue her daughter, Grace Kelley, from methamphetamine addiction. The 62-year-old country singer said her attempts to help sometimes enabled the very behavior she hoped to stop, as reported by Fox News.

Kelley, 30, has struggled with drug addiction and related legal troubles for more than a decade.

She is serving a sentence of 15 months at Rockingham County Jail in Harrisonburg, Virginia, after pleading guilty in June to a felony charge of driving with a suspended or revoked license.

Speaking with Fox News Digital, Judd acknowledged that giving Kelley financial support worsened the situation.

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“I really lost myself with Grace, and I enabled her, which comes down to basically giving her money for drugs,” Judd admitted.

Judd believed she was helping her daughter buy a car, but she later realized where that assistance could lead.

She said those decisions “really bit me in the butt” and admitted she continues to carry guilt and shame over them.

Her advice to parents facing similar struggles begins with turning their attention inward.

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“I would say work on yourself,” Judd said, explaining that finding peace could allow a child to see recovery as something worth pursuing.

Those experiences became part of Judd’s deeply personal album, “The Hard Truth,” her first solo studio album in more than a decade and her first as a primary songwriter.

Its songs explore heartbreak, healing, faith, and survival, including her complicated relationship with her late mother, Naomi Judd, and Kelley’s addiction.

The most difficult possibility Judd faced while making the album was that her daughter might never find sobriety.

“That there might be a chance that my daughter doesn't get clean, that she doesn't find the healing that she so desperately needs,” Judd admitted.

Judd also discussed her estrangement from Kelley, saying they have not spoken for a year. “After all these years, the money ran out, and she did, too,” Judd said, adding that she has been forced to accept that she cannot save her daughter.

Their last conversation was tense because Judd had stopped giving Kelley money and repeatedly helping her return to rehabilitation. Judd told her daughter that at 30 years old, she needed to seek help herself rather than continue blaming her mother.

Judd still hopes they can reconcile, but she said sobriety must come first.

She would ask Kelley to enter rehabilitation again, pointing to the treatment that helped her when she entered the Shades of Hope Center of Healing in Buffalo Gap, Texas, in 2006 for a program lasting 42 days.

Her own recovery shaped how she views Kelley’s struggle, although Judd recognizes that her daughter must want treatment herself.

Kelley has experienced homelessness and has been in and out of prison, while Judd’s song “Drive” recalls visiting her during an earlier incarceration.

Judd has described herself as “a mom in waiting” for her daughter to return from what she called a nightmarish meth addiction.

She also reflected on whether her demanding career affected Kelley differently from her son, Elijah, saying Grace wanted more of her attention and resented the time her career took away.

That resentment also extends to Judd’s decision to raise Kelley’s daughter, Kaliyah, who has Type 1 diabetes and requires constant care. Judd said her goal is to raise the child to be as healthy as possible and break the cycle surrounding the family.

Judd and her third husband, musician Cactus Moser, have cared for four-year-old Kaliyah since infancy and legally adopted her amid Kelley’s addiction and legal problems.

They are raising her on their farm spanning 500 acres in Tennessee, where Judd said the child does chores, mucks stalls, and embraces life as a cowgirl.

Judd said the farm is a peaceful place where the family fishes, spends time in the woods and cares for 40 animals. She also cooks and is known at home as Nonie, a simpler identity than the one audiences see onstage.

Meanwhile, Judd said she learned through TikTok that Kelley was believed to have welcomed another child while incarcerated.

“I just found out on TikTok that she's had another baby in prison, and I don't even know if it's a boy or a girl,” Judd said, describing the situation as something she cannot control.

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