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Wynonna Judd has revealed that she no longer speaks to her younger sister Ashley.
In an interview with People magazine, Wynonna confirmed that her on-again/off-again relationship with her sister is back on ice.
'We're taking a break, which all families can relate to,' the 62-year-old said.
'She's doing her thing, and I'm doing mine,' she continued, adding that the siblings are no longer 'connected' and that Ashley has yet to hear her new album, The Hard Truth.
Ashley and Wynonna have had countless ups and downs over the years.
In a 2015 interview with Dan Rather, Wynonna said that she and her half-sister had 'separate lives'.
Wynonna Judd has revealed that she no longer speaks to her younger sister Ashley. (Pictured together in 2022)
'We've missed out on a lot. I have a lot of tears for the times we've missed out on,' she confessed at the time.
'Ashley has her agenda, I have mine. I have two kids. Ashley's single and she travels the world. I can't do that like she can,' she continued.
'My choice is to be a mom and if I'm at home and she's texting me from Scotland... that's been our life.'
Wynonna went on to say that the pair 'disagree on everything' and are 'dysfunctional'.
However, years later in a 2022 interview conducted just months after their mother Naomi committed suicide, Wynonna confirmed that she and Ashley were speaking again.
'Ashley and I are closer than we've been in a long time,' she said on the Today show in October 2022.
'So get off our backs press, we love each other and we show up for each other,' she added.
'We don't agree on much, but we support one another and we agree to disagree.'
'We're taking a break, which all families can relate to,' the 62-year-old said
The half-sisters have had many ups and downs over the decades. They are pictured in 2001 in happier times
Daily Mail has contacted Ashley for comment.
While it's unclear what exactly the pair disagree on, their rift may be political.
Earlier this month, Rosie O'Donnell claimed that Wynonna is a supporter of President Donald Trump.
As for Ashley, the actress, 58, is a lifelong Democrat and progressive activist who has been an outspoken critic of Trump.
At one point, she even considered a run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky against Mitch McConnell.
While Wynonna hasn't publicly declared her political preferences, she visited the White House during Trump's first term in 2019 to advocate for criminal justice reform and to talk about prison reintegration initiatives.
The half-sisters are pictured with their late mother Naomi Judd in 1992
Naomi committed suicide in 2022 and Ashley and Wynonna reunited after her death to repair their relationship; Naomi is pictured in 2009
In 2017, she also distanced herself from anti-Trump remarks made by her sister Ashley, posting on social media, 'I am not my sister’s keeper. The end.'
At the time, Ashley had recited a scorching anti-Trump poem I Am A Nasty Woman written by 19-year-old Nina Donovan at the Women's March on Washington.
Ashley and Wynonna both share the same mother, the late country singer Naomi Judd.
Naomi and Wynonna formed a successful country music duo called The Judds and released their first album in 1984, when Wynonna was just 20.
Meanwhile, Ashley took an entirely different path by forging an acting career on her own.
Back in May, Ashley took a swipe at her late mom in an Instagram post about how she went without a role model for much of her childhood due to Naomi's grueling touring schedule.
'There was no parent (or adult) supporting, nurturing, guiding and reinforcing my learning, delighting in, or protecting that little girl,' Ashley wrote.
Back in May, Ashley took a swipe at her late mom in an Instagram post about how she went without a role model for much of her childhood due to Naomi's grueling touring schedule
Judd also revealed that for her 58th birthday, she had re-imagined her 12th birthday as she never had any birthday celebrations as a child.
'Have you ever considered, from your adult perspective, restaging for your sweet inner child an experience she either never had at all?' she asked her followers.
'Or an experience that did not unfold with the safety and attention it should have? I deeply enjoy doing this from a loving inner-parent perspective for my inner family.'
She continued, 'Many of us grew up with unmet needs.... I don’t remember any of my birthdays growing up.
'Today, as adults, we can listen carefully to those missings, identify what happened that should not have happened - and, crucially, what did not happen that should have happened - supplying that, now, with love and humor to ourselves.'
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