Trump to shake up the US drug industry ‘almost immediately’ with new executive order
President Donald Trump announced he plans to sign an executive order on Monday that will reduce the cost of prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals “almost immediately, by 30% to 80%.”
Trump made the announcement on Truth Social Sunday.
“For many years the World has wondered why Prescription Drugs and Pharmaceuticals in the United States States of America were SO MUCH HIGHER IN PRICE THAN THEY WERE IN ANY OTHER NATION, SOMETIMES BEING FIVE TO TEN TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE SAME DRUG, MANUFACTURED IN THE EXACT SAME LABORATORY OR PLANT, BY THE SAME COMPANY???” Trump wrote. “It was always difficult to explain and very embarrassing because, in fact, there was no correct or rightful answer.
“The Pharmaceutical/Drug Companies would say, for years, that it was Research and Development Costs, and that all of these costs were, and would be, for no reason whatsoever, borne by the ‘suckers’ of America, ALONE. Campaign Contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not with the Republican Party,” the president continued.
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“We are going to do the right thing, something that the Democrats have fought for many years,” Trump added. “Therefore, I am pleased to announce that Tomorrow morning, in the White House, at 9:00 A.M., I will be signing one of the most consequential Executive Orders in our Country’s history. Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be REDUCED, almost immediately, by 30% to 80%.
Trump noted that the cost of drugs will rise throughout the World, but for the first time in many years, he added, it will “bring FAIRNESS TO AMERICA!”
“I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION’S POLICY whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World,” Trump said. “Our Country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens Healthcare Costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought of before. Additionally, on top of everything else, the United States will save TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.”
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Trump signed another executive order last month to standardize Medicare payments for prescription drugs, including those used for cancer patients, no matter where a patient receives treatment. The White House said in a fact sheet at the time that the order could lower prices for patients as much as 60%.
Likewise, the order calls to match the Medicare payment for certain prescription drugs to the price that hospitals pay for those drugs, up to 35% lower than what the government pays to acquire those medications, the White House said.
The order also takes steps to lower insulin prices. Specifically, the order calls for lowering insulin prices for low-income patients or those who are uninsured to as little as 3 cents and injectable epinephrine for treating allergic reactions to as low as $15, coupled with a “small administrative fee,” according to a White House fact sheet.
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Additionally, the order attempts to drive down states’ drug prices by “facilitating importation programs that could save states millions in prescription drug prices,” as well as bolstering programs that assist states secure deals on sickle-cell medications in Medicaid, the fact sheet said.
The order requires Health and Human Services, which is lead by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to seek comment on the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, which the Biden administration authorized under the Inflation Reduction Act and allows Medicare to directly engage in hashing out prescription prices with drug companies.
Drug prices have significantly spiked in recent years. Between January 2022 and January 2023, prescription drug prices rose more than 15% and reached an average of $590 per drug product, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Of the 4,200 prescription drugs included on that list, 46% of the price increases exceeded the rate of inflation.
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Previous efforts under the first Trump administration to curb prescription drug prices included installing a cap on Medicaid prescription drug plans for insulin at $35.
Two more top US government officials receive their last emails from the Trump admin
President Donald Trump’s administration fired the top copyright official in the U.S. – just days after terminating the Librarian of Congress.
Shira Perlmutter was in charge of the U.S. Copyright Office, which is overseen by the Library of Congress, until she was abruptly fired on Saturday.
The U.S. Copyright Office told Fox News Digital that Perlmutter received an email from the White House, stating, “your position as the Register of Copyrights and Director at the U.S. Copyright Office is terminated effective immediately.”
Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who was the first woman and first African American to be Librarian of Congress, on Thursday. The termination was part of the administration’s ongoing purge of government officials who are perceived to be opposed to Trump and his agenda.
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The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment on the matter.
Hayden tapped Perlmutter to lead the Copyright Office in October 2020.
Like Perlmutter, Hayden was notified of her firing in an email, according to The Associated Press.
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“Carla,” the email from the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office reportedly began. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service.”
Perlmutter’s office recently released a report examining whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyrighted materials to “train” their AI systems.
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The report followed a review that started in 2023 with opinions from thousands of individuals, including AI developers, actors and country singers.
The Copyright Office clarified its approach in January, as one based on the “centrality of human creativity” in authoring a work that warrants copyright protections. The Copyright Office takes in about a half a million copyright applications each year, covering millions of creative works.
“Where that creativity is expressed through the use of AI systems, it continues to enjoy protection,” Perlmutter said in January. “Extending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine… would undermine rather than further the constitutional goals of copyright.”
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Perlmutter, who holds a law degree, was previously a policy director at the Patent and Trademark Office and worked on copyright and other areas of intellectual property.
She also previously worked at the Copyright Office in the late 1990s.
Reporter absolutely rips NBA star for playing ‘victim’ with ‘angry Black man’ comments
NBA reporters shared their blunt reactions to Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green’s plea to the media to stop painting him to be an “angry Black man” after Game 2 of the team’s NBA playoffs series against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Green made his comments in the locker room. He picked up what was his fifth technical foul of the playoffs. He said there was an “agenda” to portray him as an “angry Black man.”
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ESPN reporter Tim McMahon made pointed comments on an episode of “The Hoop Collective” after Game 2 was finished.
“Oh, God. You know what? Go away, Draymond. Shut up, dude. Do not play victim here. Don’t play the victim here. Stop doing flagrant stuff. We’re sick of it. We’re sick of you doing stupid, flagrant crap on a regular basis. It’s not an agenda, Draymond,” McMahon said. “You get break after break after break after break, and you keep on pushing the line.
“It was not an agenda to make you look angry when you punched your teammate in the face. It was not an agenda to make you look angry when you grabbed Rudy Gobert and put him in a sleeper hold. It was not an agenda to make you look angry when you punched or smacked, or whatever you want to call it, Jusuf Nurkic upside the head.”
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McMahon also pushed back on the notion that Green had leaned into counseling off the floor.
“Draymond is full of crap. He’s just so full of crap that his breath stinks. Like what are we talking about here, dude? Please,” he added.
Green was hit with the technical foul in the second quarter of Game 2.
“I’m not an angry Black man. I am a very successful, educated Black man with a great family, and I am great at basketball and great at what I do,” he said after the game. “The agenda to try to keep making me look like an angry Black man is crazy. I’m sick of it. It’s ridiculous.”
He had two points, four assists, two rebounds and two steals in the Game 3 loss. He fouled out with 4:38 in the game.
Green has a long history of flagrant and technical fouls in the NBA.
He put Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert in a chokehold during the 2023-24 season. In the same season, he swung and hit Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the face.
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He punched Jordan Poole in a Warriors practice in 2022. He was suspended for Game 5 of the 2016 NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron James engineered a comeback to win the championship.
Fans chant ‘Sell the team!’ after beatdown marks worst shutout loss in franchise history
The Colorado Rockies’ abysmal start to their 2025 campaign hit a new low on Saturday, as they fell to the San Diego Padres, 21-0, at Coors Field, marking the team’s worst shutout loss in franchise history.
As the Padres poured it on, MLB fans couldn’t believe what they were watching, and their voices were heard on social media
The on-field product has been atrocious all year, as their 6-33 record is by far the worst in MLB. But a football score was on the board at Coors Field, and the Rockies fans in the stands, who were vastly outnumbered by Padres supporters, were chanting for change.
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“The Rockies are losing 19-0 at the bottom of the fifth,” one X user posted. “The crowd is chanting, ‘Sell the Team, Sell the Team.’”
It’s not the first time Rockies owner Dick Monfort has heard chants to sell his team, as they haven’t had a winning record since 2018, losing over 100 games in each of the last two seasons.
Longtime Denver Gazette columnist Woody Paige gave his take after watching Saturday’s game.
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“Delusional Dick Monfort said before season in rare form Rockies could have the best defense in history of baseball,” Paige wrote on X. “Roxhead was just a bit outside. Rockies lead MLB in errors and are last in fielding percentage. Go back to Greeley, Dick, and take the stink with you.”
A young kid held up a sign in the stands that read, “My arm is rested if needed!” showing how desperate fans are to see a good product.
“Send the Rockies to Triple-A,” another X user posted.
“Leagues should step in and take teams from inept ownership, McCourt style,” another wrote. “Rockies ownership is just not worthy of having that team anymore. The [Nolan] Arenado trade was the absolute end.”
On the other hand, some noticed that there were still a lot of fans in the stands despite the horrendous deficit. Just look at the crowd when Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. smacked a three-run homer to make it 19-0.
One fan gave a perspective on why Monfort would never sell.
“It’s 20-0 #Padres in the sixth inning and fans are doing the wave having the time of their lives,” an X user posted. “This is why the Monforts won’t sell the #Rockies. Fans don’t care. Good weather, beer, etc. Pathetic for a true baseball fan.”
One of those true baseball fans urged Rockies supporters to stop going to games after watching last night.
“As a Colorado native it is absolutely embarrassing that people still go to the games then complain how bad they are,” he wrote. “…YOU ARE THE REASON THE MONFORTS WONT SELL. STOP ATTENDING AND GIVING THEM MONEY.”
In the end, at least the Rockies’ social media team is trying to find a way to make light of the situation.
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The MLB record for most losses in a single year – 121 – was set by the Chicago White Sox in 2024.
The Rockies appear headed to rivaling that woeful record.
Crockett claims Dems looking to run ‘safest white boy’ in 2028 — hints at specific candidate
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said Democrats were eyeing the “safest White boy” in the 2028 presidential race, hinting at “one specific candidate” being floated by the party’s donors, during a podcast conversation this week.
“It is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system, will have about voting for a woman because every time we voted for a woman, we’ve lost, so far,” she said in a clip posted to Instagram. “And I think that that’s a natural fear because we just want to win.”
SiriusXM host Clay Cane posted the clip to Instagram on Friday, noting that the discussion was part of a SiriusXM “Urban View” town hall. The full conversation is set to air on May 15.
“So there’s a lot of people that are like, ‘You know what? ‘Let’s go find the safest White boy we can find,’” Crockett added. “I mean, I’m just saying.”
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“No, for real. And to be clear, when we talk about them, I can tell you that there is one specific candidate,” the Texas lawmaker said. “I had a donor on the phone with me telling me that all the donors are lining up behind that candidate. So I can tell, and I tell you, it’s not a Black person, nor a woman, OK?”
She referred to Democratic donors as “they” during the discussion, suggesting they were the same people who backed former President Joe Biden.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and former Vice President Kamala Harris, despite her 2024 loss, are among the names being floated as 2028 Democratic contenders.
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Harris headlined a lofty Democratic National Committee fundraising dinner on Tuesday, marking her latest step back into the political spotlight.
Crockett is seeking support from fellow Democrats with her eyes on a possible run for the top Democratic spot on the House Oversight Committee, according to reports from Semafor and Politico.
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Politico reported that Crockett told her colleagues she is “made for the moment,” citing people familiar with the matter and referring to the Democratic Party’s desire to resist Trump in a more forceful way. The congresswoman has made several attention-grabbing remarks in recent months and is one of the faces of the Democratic Party’s opposition to Trump.
Archaeologists stunned by royal discovery behind ‘massive’ granite false door
Archaeologists confronted by a false door at an excavation site were stunned to find that it led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty.
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery in a recent Facebook post in April.
The tomb was found at the Saqqara archaeological site in the Giza Governorate of Egypt.
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The tomb belonged to a prince named “Userefre” or “Waser Ef Ra,” the son of King Userkaf.
Userkaf was the founder of the Fifth Dynasty, which lasted from the early 25th century B.C. until the mid-24th century B.C.
The tomb was concealed by a “massive false door,” according to Egyptian officials, and was made of pink granite.
The door measures roughly 14 feet high and roughly 3.7 feet wide.
The discovery marks the first time a door of this type was found, officials said.
The tomb was concealed by a “massive false door.”
The door was “adorned with hieroglyphic inscriptions detailing the prince’s name and titles,” according to the Facebook post.
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It described him as a “hereditary prince, regional governor of Buto and Nekheb, royal scribe, minister, judge, and chanting priest.”
Archaeologists also found statues of King Djoser, his wife and his 10 daughters in the tomb, plus a red granite table with a list of funerary offerings.
A large black granite statue was also found, along with another tomb entrance which was also made of pink granite.
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“To the north of the lintel, a discovery considered the first of its kind in the Saqqara area was made, where a group of 13 pink granite statues seated on a high-backed bench was found,” said the Facebook post, which was translated from Arabic to English.
“There are also statue heads at a higher level than the rest of the statues, representing the wives of the tomb owner seated in the middle, with two headless statues to the left, in front of which another black granite statue was found, overturned, measuring approximately 1.35 meters in height.”
Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy expressed happiness over the discovery, and said that it helps “unveil new secrets of this significant historical period in the history of ancient Egyptian civilization.”
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The latest discovery is one of many ancient Egyptian finds uncovered this year.
In March, archaeologists announced that they’d uncovered a 3,000-year-old mining complex, complete with remnants of ancient homes, workshops and baths.
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In an even more significant achievement, an archaeologist from the University of Pennsylvania found the long-lost tomb of an unknown Egyptian pharaoh.
Gisele Bündchen posts glimpse of her Mother’s Day bliss as she embraces ‘the present’
Gisele Bündchen is experiencing baby bliss.
In honor of Mother’s Day, the supermodel posted a carousel of photos on Instagram with her children, including one of her carrying her newborn baby, whom she shares with her boyfriend, Joaquim Valente.
“I’ve been quiet over here but very busy living life. Sometimes, the most beautiful moments aren’t shared — they’re simply lived,” she wrote in the caption. “Lately, I’ve been embracing the slower rhythms, the real connections, the beauty in the lessons that come with being present.”
In one of the photos, Bündchen can be seen smiling at the camera while holding her baby, who is wearing a long-sleeved white onesie with “I heart mom” embroidered on the back.
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Also included in the carousel of photos was a picture of Bündchen with her mother, who died in January 2024, due to cancer.
Today, on Mother’s Day, I specially miss my mom, but my heart is full,” she wrote. “Being a mother it’s been my greatest gift, a journey that humbles me, teaches me, and fills me with gratitude every single day.”
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She concluded: “To all the mothers out there, your love shapes the world in ways words can’t describe. I see you, I honor you. Happy mother’s day! Sending so much love your way!”
Lately, I’ve been embracing the slower rhythms, the real connections, the beauty in the lessons that come with being present.
In addition to her new baby, the post also features a photo of Bündchen in a big group hug with her two older children, son Benjamin and daughter Vivian, who she shares with her ex-husband, Tom Brady.
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News of Bündchen’s third pregnancy broke in October 2024. She shares the new baby with her boyfriend, Valente, who she began dating in June 2023, around seven months after her divorce from Brady was finalized.
“Gisele and Joaquim are happy for this new chapter in their life and they’re looking forward to creating a peaceful and loving environment for the whole family,” a source told People magazine in a statement.
Bündchen and Brady finalized their divorce in October 2022 after 13 years of marriage. A month after the divorce was finalized, Bündchen and Valente sparked romance rumors when they were spotted together, with the model telling Fox News Digital at the time, “None of it’s true” and that he is just the family’s martial arts instructor.
After confirming their romance, rumors swirled online that Bundchen and Valente had an affair. The model spoke with The New York Times in March 2024, saying: “That is a lie.”
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“This is something that happens to a lot of women who get blamed when they have the courage to leave an unhealthy relationship and are labeled as being unfaithful,” Bündchen explained. “They have to deal with their communities. They have to deal with their family. Of course, for me, it just happens to be a little bit amplified.”
Judd sisters open up about a childhood filled with abuse and trauma
Wynonna and Ashley Judd admitted in a new docuseries they had a complicated relationship with their late mom, Naomi Judd, who also dealt with her own trauma on her road to success.
In the A&E docuseries “The Judd Family: Truth Be Told,” the sisters opened up in the first three episodes about growing up with a young mom, the abuse they experienced from one of their mother’s exes when they were children, leaving Los Angeles behind to move home to Kentucky and how Wynonna and Naomi found and dealt with superstardom in country music.
“I’ve loved her more than I’ve loved myself, but mother was both in love with me and terrified of me because I represented what she didn’t know and couldn’t control,” Wynonna said at the beginning of the docuseries.
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Wynonna said she believes her mother’s suicide was partly to blame on “generational trauma” her mother experienced.
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“One of the reasons I have decided that Mom left this world is because of trauma, generational trauma, family stuff that never got healed or fixed,” Wynonna said in the first episode of the show.
Growing up, Naomi Judd had a judgmental mother, her younger brother died of Hodgkin lymphoma as a child, and she was a teen mom when she gave birth to Wynonna.
Wynonna called the closeness with her mother a “blessing and a burden” because she felt “responsible for making her feel better.”
“As a child, she did not get what she needed,” Wynonna said. “That is a fact.”
But she admitted that she was “not allowed to be a child” growing up.
“I was the adult,” Wynonna said of her relationship with her mother.
Ashley added that their mother lived with a “constellation of her sufferings” that spiraled into severe depression before her death.
“I’ve loved her more than I’ve loved myself, but mother was both in love with me and terrified of me because I represented what she didn’t know and couldn’t control.”
Wynonna said, from a young age, Naomi was always looking for approval from her own mother, who judged her for loving an audience as a kid, which Ashley said continued into her professional music career.
“It wasn’t about ego and grandiosity and self-importance,” Ashley revealed. “It was actually something much more humble than that. It was about basic self-worth.”
Naomi died by suicide in April 2022.
Naomi’s ex-boyfriend once hung Ashley out the bedroom window by her ankles
After splitting from their father, their mother met a man who Wynonna described as “creepy,” Ashley and Wynonna said.
“Mom had a really, really not healthy boyfriend,” she explained. “She saw him as James Dean. The reality was he’s not James Dean. He’s a guy who’s creepy.
“I was old enough to know that something was wrong. I just remember being very, very aware of this man watching us in the bathtub, and, you know, laying on top of me while I was watching television.”
Wynonna said their mother often wasn’t home, and she became “incredibly, incredibly protective of Ashley.”
Ashley said one time the live-in boyfriend discovered the girls had written on the walls, “and he hung me out the bedroom window by my ankles.”
Naomi wrote in her memoir about how he moved to an apartment across the street from them after she broke up with him so he could stalk her.
One night, she said, she discovered someone was inside her house. When she went inside, her ex grabbed her in a jealous rage, demanding to know if she’d been with another man.
“As he was raping me, I prayed he wouldn’t kill me because my kids needed me,” she wrote.
Ashley says she was left to fend for herself for much of her childhood
Ashley said she felt “abandoned” by her parents as a child, adding that everyone thought she was a “very capable child” and so “nobody needed to take care of me.”
Naomi’s widower, Larry Strickland said that while he was on the road touring with Naomi and Wynonna, Ashley was left alone.
“Ashley, I’m sure, felt left behind. You know, she suffered, she suffered because of that. It changed her,” Strickland said in the docuseries.
She moved in with her father in her junior year of high school, but she said he wasn’t home much and was using drugs as well.
“My hunch is the justification for abandoning me came from this belief that I was this very capable child … so nobody needed to take care of me. And both of my parents had those beliefs,” Ashley said.
She also remembered dealing with chickenpox by herself in a motel room when she was a young girl.
“Mom was working and then going out at night, so I was in this strange place with the chickenpox. I just slept all the time,” Ashley said.
Naomi had moved with the girls back to Kentucky at that time, but she was still struggling with nine-to-five jobs, before she and Wynonna found musical success.
“That was a bout of childhood depression,” Ashley said, referring to a disease she would continue to battle, much of the time unnoticed.
“I would just watch the commercials and get out the cleaning products that were advertised and just copy what I saw on television,” Ashley remembered of taking care of herself at the motel.
When she was 14 years old, Ashley was sent to model in Japan, where she said she was raped twice.
She said that when her mom later found out from Ashley’s diary about the assault, Naomi “sneered” at the idea, referring to the man who raped her as her “boyfriend.”
“But I was a little girl. I was not a participant. I was a victim. There’s no such thing as consent, and Mom and I had a lot of these conversations later in life,” Ashley said. “And her understanding of sexual assault and rape was not the perspective into which she grew and evolved. She just didn’t have that information and perspective.
“So, her reaction was to sneer at me. I was shut down. My own experience and reality invalidated and denied, which in her heart today would be a very painful lament.”
“One of the reasons I have decided that mom left this world is because of trauma, generational trauma, family stuff that never got healed or fixed.”
But she added that her experience of her mother is a “description not an indictment. Everyone was doing the best they could.”
Wynonna says she didn’t embrace her sexuality on stage because she shut down after being molested at age 12
Dan Potter, musical director for the Judds, said he understood why Wynonna struggled with her weight in her singing career.
“She was wanting to not be attractive,” he told the producers of the documentary. “Things happened to her that caused her to not want to be attractive.”
“I was molested at 12, so my whole sexuality thing was really stamped out because I, just at 12, really shut down,” Wynonna revealed. “So, I carried the weight, literally and figuratively.”
Her weight, which she said she put on because food became a “soother” to her like drugs or alcohol, became an issue after she and her mom found success as a country duo.
“Mom was very hard on me,” she said, “because she was terrified of losing me, of course, but she never would say it that way. It was always, ‘Well, if you lost 20 pounds, you’d be a pop star.’ I remember that conversation very well.”
Wynonna noted it was the same kind of thing her grandmother said to her mom growing up.
“That’s why I would get so angry because I knew it was being passed down,” she added.
She said her mother’s sexuality on stage when they performed together “so aggravated” her.
“She was 36 years old. She was ready to be fire,” Wynonna laughed. “As kids would say today, she had drip. She was foxy and ready to rumble. Man, she had the modes down, but then I was so aggravated by her sexuality.”
She added that she wished her bond with her mom could have been harmonious like their music, but “there was a lot of dysfunction.”
Larry Strickland was ‘jealous as crap’ of Naomi’s success early on
Strickland, who is also a musician, admitted in the docuseries he was “jealous as crap” of Naomi’s success early on in her career.
Naomi wrote in her memoir that after she found out that their song “Mama He’s Crazy” was No. 1, Strickland stood up and walked out the door.
“I was jealous as crap of her, you know,” the 76-year-old admitted of his late wife, “so we just kind of fell apart a little bit.”
Naomi described in a 1987 interview played in the docuseries that Strickland “left me” when he found out that “Mama He’s Crazy” had gone No. 1. “But we’re back together now.”
Naomi wrote in her memoir that she met Strickland in 1979 when his gospel group, The Stamps Quartet, walked into the building where she was a secretary in Nashville.
The group had toured with Elvis Presley for the last three years of his life.
“I mean, it was almost a love at first sight kind of thing,” Strickland said of Naomi in the docuseries.
He said they didn’t have any money at that time, and he’d started his own band, Memphis, which toured around the country playing clubs.
“I was trying to find my way,” he said. “Naomi, she was the breadwinner. We were dirt poor. It was trying times, very trying times.”
Strickland said Naomi would work during the night at her new job as a nurse, and she would knock on doors on Nashville’s Music Row during the day.
“So, she was doing it all,” he said.
“Only a handful of people make it through [into the industry],” he added.
After years of hard work, Naomi and Wynonna got their big break after meeting Nashville producer Brent Maher at her nursing job and signing with RCA Records in 1983.
“If you can imagine all of those years of Naomi fighting the fight, all of the meetings, all of the ‘no’s, it had to be staggering,” Maher said of when they signed with RCA.
Naomi wrote in her memoir that, one night, while she and Wynonna were on the road, Strickland called long distance.
“He wanted to change his life,” she wrote of Strickland. “‘I’m getting off the road. I love you, so I’m asking you to marry me. What’s your answer?’”
“I was just being funny, but I said, ‘How would you like to be buried with my people?’” Strickland told the producers of the docuseries. “That’s an old saying.”
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Naomi wrote in her memoir of that time, “We’d had the greatest year of our entire lives, not only professionally but personally as well.”
Strickland and Naomi wed in 1989 and remained married until her death in 2022.
Steve Irwin’s daughter rushed into emergency surgery — not long after another health battle
Bindi Irwin was forced to miss the annual Steve Irwin Gala due to a medical emergency.
On Saturday, her brother Robert Irwin revealed that Bindi underwent immediate surgery due to a ruptured appendix.
“She’s going to be OK, but surgery – out of all the things we were ready for, that was not one of them,” Robert told People magazine at the event in Las Vegas. “She’s just come out the other side of endometriosis and now the appendix goes. Health is so important – it really is. Bindi has become an incredible advocate for women’s health, particularly, and I think it’s really important to prioritize getting help.”
“She came to Las Vegas and was ready to come to the gala, put on a brave face in a lot of discomfort and a lot of pain and said, ‘Nope, I’m just going to tough it out, I’m going to go for it,'” he added. “But the surgeon said, ‘No, your appendix is going. That thing’s gotta come out.’ Health has to come first. She’s very sad. She’s devastated that she and Mom can’t be here, but I know she’ll make a speedy recovery.”
BINDI IRWIN REVEALS SHE UNDERWENT SURGERY FOR ENDOMETRIOSIS AFTER SUFFERING ‘INSURMOUNTABLE’ PAIN FOR 10 YEARS
That same day, Bindi took to social media to share some photos of her family in Las Vegas to honor her father, the late crocodile hunter.
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“Khaki by day – Bellagio chic by night! Here in #LasVegas for the #SteveIrwinGala raising funds and awareness for Wildlife Warriors,” the 26-year-old wrote on Instagram.. “Supporting conservation and remembering Dad’s extraordinary legacy. Enormous gratitude to everyone for your support as we continue to do all that we can to protect wildlife and wild places for the future generations.”
Fox News Digital reached out to a representative for Bindi Irwin, but they did not immediately respond.
This is not the first health scare Bindi has encountered. In 2023, the mom of one revealed an endometriosis diagnosis that also required surgery.
“My life now looks completely different than it did before I had my surgery,” Irwin told Fox News Digital at the time. “Over the 10 years that I was really battling with endo[metriosis] without knowing it, I would get progressively worse every week and in the end, before my surgery, I was barely able to get out of bed.”
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Irwin, who described the pain she experienced as a “stabbing feeling” and “really scary,” revealed in March that she endured the painful condition for 10 years and struggled for a proper diagnosis.
On her social media post announcing the news, the 25-year-old shared that she had 37 lesions and a “chocolate cyst” removed from her body, and noted that the first words from her doctor during recovery were, “‘How did you live with this much pain?’”
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“And now on the other side of surgery, I mean, I’m going for daily zoo walks with my family. I’m able to go to our management meetings and check up on our animals and do the filming work that I love and play with my daughter. And it is just so wonderful. I feel like I see the world in a new way now. I’m able to actually do things again.”
“It does feel like a second chance at life,” she added.