Wynonna Judd says she thought she was buying her daughter a car. Instead, the country star now says the cash helped feed a methamphetamine addiction that tore through their family for more than a decade.

In a Fox News Digital interview, the six-time Grammy winner described years of attempted rescues, repeated rehab stints, and a painful decision to cut off money and stop enabling Grace Kelley. Kelley, 30, is serving a 15-month sentence at Rockingham County Jail in Harrisonburg, Virginia, after a June guilty plea to felony driving with a suspended or revoked license.

Judd, 62, framed the choice as survival for the next generation. She and husband Cactus Moser have raised and legally adopted Kelley’s daughter Kaliyah, now 4, on a 500-acre Tennessee farm. The child has Type 1 diabetes and needs round-the-clock care. Judd said the rupture with her daughter remains raw, and the two have not spoken for a year.

Enabling dressed up as help

Judd did not soften the self-indictment. She tied her own conduct directly to the drugs.

She told Fox News Digital: "I really lost myself with Grace and I enabled her, which comes down to basically giving her money for drugs,"

"And here I thought I was buying her a car. And those things really bit me in the butt."

She added that the guilt has not faded. "And I'm still feeling, you know, some guilt and shame about that," Judd said.

The pattern stretched across years of crisis calls and returns to treatment. Judd said the money eventually ran out, and so did her daughter’s presence in her life.

"After all these years, the money ran out, and she did, too,"

She described the harder line that followed. Things grew tense once she refused to keep funding rehab trips and cash handouts. Judd said she told her daughter she was 30 years old and had to stop blaming her mother. Help would have to be self-driven.

Jail time and a long legal trail

Kelley’s current sentence follows a June guilty plea on the felony license charge. Judd said her daughter has been in and out of jail and prison on and off since she was 17, with stretches of homelessness mixed in.

Earlier reporting captured more of that cycle. Breitbart reported that Kelley was arrested on August 3 on three misdemeanor counts of fleeing or attempting to elude an officer, driving with a suspended or revoked license, and using motorcycle equipment improperly. She was booked into Carroll County Jail in Georgia and released on $2,750 bond, with prior arrests that included a prostitution-related charge in April.

Judd cast the legal grind as the costly path her daughter has walked through addiction. "She's been in and out of prison and jail for so long that that's her way of walking through the addiction part in terms of what it costs her," she said.

She also flagged a newer threat layered on top of meth. "We're also now dealing with fentanyl. So, there's that," Judd said, a warning that lands amid wider fights over anti-fentanyl enforcement and supervised drug sites.

Boundaries, sobriety, and a mother stepping back

Judd said she finally concluded that more money and more rescues could kill her child. "I realized, 'Oh my God, it's possible that I could be part of the reason she dies. I'm loving her to death. Literally,'"

She stopped enabling. The cut-off, she said, nearly broke her. "And it about killed me because when your kid calls and says, 'I'm hungry,' what do you do?"

Reconciliation, if it comes, would require sobriety. Judd said she would want her daughter in rehab again because that is what worked for her own recovery. She checked into a 42-day program at Shades of Hope Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas, in 2006 for food addiction. She also said major life decisions, including relationships, should wait a full year after getting clean.

Even then, trust would take time. "But it would take some time because we've been apart a lot. She's been homeless and struggling for years and in and out of prison."

Judd has not closed the door. She still hopes for a return. "And I'm just gonna look forward to that day. I still have hope she's alive. There is still hope."

Raising Kaliyah and breaking the cycle

The sharpest conflict now centers on the granddaughter. Judd said Grace is angry that she and Moser stepped in. Kaliyah has Type 1 diabetes. Judd said continuous care made the choice unavoidable.

"There's no way she could have taken care of her. That's one thing. It's a 24/7 situation. I stepped in, and I took over, and she's mad at me."

Judd framed her duty in plain terms. "I understand that that's her journey," she said of her daughter. "It's not mine. My journey is to raise this baby to be the healthiest and break the cycle."

Life on the Tennessee farm is chores, animals, and outdoor time. Judd said she has 40 animals and cooks for the household. Kaliyah mucks stalls and lives as a cowgirl, kept away from constant screens. Judd is "Nonie" at home when the stage lashes come off.

Judd also said she learned on TikTok that Kelley had another baby while incarcerated. She said she does not know whether the child is a boy or a girl. No public confirmation of custody details has been released beyond her account of that discovery.

Career strain and the album’s hard edge

Judd traced part of the wound to her career. She said Grace resented the time the spotlight took. "Grace was very jealous of my career because it took me away from her enough to where she was not satisfied,"

She contrasted that with her son Elijah, 31, a deputy, who she said was more at peace with the demands. Grace, the second-born, wanted constant attention. "She was the one that wanted to sleep with me, wanted my attention 24/7."

Judd has joked darkly about the split paths in the family. "I've made all the jokes about, 'I have one on parole. I have one on patrol,'" she said. "My son is a deputy. I've done all that, and now it's time to just tell my story as a mom who's constantly in this place between hell and hallelujah."

Her recently released solo studio album, "The Hard Truth," is her first in more than a decade and the first on which she is the primary songwriter. One track, "Drive," recounts trips to see Kelley behind bars. The record also circles her complicated history with her late mother, Naomi Judd.

On advice for other parents, Judd kept the focus inward. "I would say work on yourself," she said. "That was one of the things that I was told. And working on myself, getting the peace, letting her see that she's attracted to that. Maybe she wants to get better herself. So let the light shine."

What remains unsettled

Judd said she has made peace with the limits of what she can control. Fame can secure a restaurant table. It cannot force recovery.

"Sure, I can get a good seat in a restaurant. I can stand on the mountaintops and sing from my toenails, but this one thing I have no control."

She described the fear that her daughter may never get clean. "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,"

"As a mother, I'm devastated by her story, and I just had to let go."

Investigators and courts have already acted on the license felony that put Kelley in the Virginia jail. Authorities have not publicly detailed every prior case file or the status of the child Judd said she learned about on TikTok. Judd’s own account leaves the next move with her daughter: sobriety first, then any slow rebuild of a relationship that money and repeated rescues could not fix.

Addiction wrecks families when cash and comfort replace consequences. The law still has to hold the line, and parents who finally stop writing checks are often the last adults left standing for the children who remain.