Wynonna Judd’s daughter spent a day behind bars after attempting to flee police — marking her second arrest in just four months.
Grace Kelley, 28, spent a single day in jail when she was arrested in Georgia last Saturday on three misdemeanor counts, according to court documents obtained by multiple outlets. She was released on a $2,750 bond.
Kelley’s alleged offenses include fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, driving with a suspended/revoked license and using motorcycle equipment improperly.
Back in April, Kelley was initially charged with soliciting prostitution and indecent exposure after allegedly showing her breasts and lower body at a busy highway intersection in Alabama.
The charge of soliciting prostitution was eventually dropped and the indecent exposure charge was reduced to the lesser offense of public lewdness. Kelley was ordered to pay a $200 fine with 90 days in jail suspended.
However, Kelley was also charged with misdemeanor obstructing government operations for allegedly refusing to identify herself to authorities. She was sentenced to 60 days in jail on that charge.
Kelley’s run-ins with the law date back to at least 2015, when she was charged with the promotion of meth manufacture. She pleaded guilty at the time to a lesser offense of possession of meth.
In 2018, Kelley was sentenced to eight years in prison for violating her probation after she left a rehab facility before finishing the court-ordered program. She was granted parole just one year into that sentence.
Kelley was sentenced to prison again for parole violation in the summer of 2021, during which time she was pregnant with her daughter, Kaliyah. A judge eventually granted her a temporary leave of absence due to her pregnancy, and she welcomed her daughter in April 2022.
Last October, Kelley was once again released from custody following a May 2023 arrest for violating an order of protection and violating parole.
In late May 2022, just weeks after the birth of her granddaughter and the suicide death of her mom Naomi, Wynonna Judd opened up on her family’s “cycle of addition” and “dysfunction.”
“In order to be a healthier grandparent to my firstborn grandchild Kaliyah … I must continue to show up for myself {first} and do the personal healing work,” she wrote on Instagram at the time.
“I know that it is a simple steps program, and those steps are not easy to take at time,” she continued. “Therefore, I’ve made a commitment to keep doing the ‘next right thing,’ and schedule weekly appointments so that I continue with the ongoing work, even when I have good days.”
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