Wynonna Judd was born Christina Claire Ciminella, and for years she thought her father was Michael Charles Ciminella, the biological father of her sister Ashley (birth name: Ashley Tyler Ciminella).
However, Judd tells Andy Cohen on his Sirius XM show, that she learned in the early 1990s that her father was actually a man named Charles Jordan, the boyfriend of Judd’s mother, Naomi Judd, who left after Naomi became pregnant with Wynonna.
She was given the last name Ciminella after Michael Ciminella, the man her mother quickly married after being abandoned by her boyfriend and Judd’s biological father, Charles Jordan, who died in 2000. Her younger half-sister is actress Ashley Judd.
The country star never met her biological father. In a 2005 interview with Larry King, she explains that she had planned to meet him about a month before he died in 2000, but never got the chance.
Naomi Judd and Michael Ciminella divorced in 1972, leaving Naomi as a single mother to Wynonna and Ashley.