Naomi Judd has left daughters Wynonna and Ashley out of her will

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Country singer Naomi Judd has left her daughters Wynonna and Ashley out of her will.

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Instead, she appointed her 33-year-old husband, Larry Strickland, as executor of her estate, giving him “full authority and discretion” over her estate “without the consent of a court.”

Judd, 76, shot herself on April 30 in an upstairs room of her Tennessee farmhouse after a long struggle with her mental health.

She drafted her will in November 2017, nearly five years before her suicide, and was judged “healthy and of good memory” when the document was approved.

Judd was a member of country music duo The Judds along with her eldest daughter Wynonna, 58, who is reportedly upset about the decision.

Judd’s will states that Strickland is entitled to “fair compensation” for his services as executor, according to the document viewed by Page Six.

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A source close to Wynonna told Radar Online the singer was angry that she was left out of Judd’s will and “believes she was a major force behind her mother’s success.”

Both daughters had homes on Judd’s 1,000-acre farm in the greater Nashville area, but it’s unclear if Wynonna and Ashley’s properties are considered part of Judd’s estate.

It comes days after actress Ashley, 54, told grief expert David Kessler, 63, on his podcast Healing about her mother’s death: “It was sudden and painful and my world is upside down.

“I look back on my childhood and realize I grew up with a mother who had an undiagnosed and untreated mental illness.”

Recalling her mother’s “different behavioral expressions, interactions, flights of fancy, decisions,” she said, “I understand they were an expression of the disease.”

Ashley added, “I understand that and I know that she was in pain and I can understand today that she absolutely did her best and if she could have done it differently, she would have done it.”