Wynona and Cactus Moser Back On Tour
Married just 2 months in August 2012, Cactus Moser, Wynonna Judd’s new husband and her band’s drummer suffered a horrific motorcycle crash that nearly killed Moser and changed their lives forever.
While the couple was out riding together on separate bikes, Moser’s borrowed motorcycle didn’t turn properly and the 55-year-old drummer collided with an oncoming car. “I remember standing over Cactus, wondering whether he was alive or not,” Judd recalls in the new issue of Us Weekly. “I kept saying to myself, ‘Be calm, be calm.’ When I realized he was still alive, I noticed the leg was gone. I saw remnants of it…all over the highway. I just stood there, trying to make sense of it all.”
Moser’s hand was shattered and his left leg was severed from his body. Fortunately, an off-duty EMT happened on the scene. He called for a helicopter and Moser was rushed to a local hospital. Moser’s condition was grave, but over the course of a year, he has continued to recover – thanks in large part to the support of his wife. “She (Wynonna) had to do everything for me. My left hand was useless, and my left leg was gone. I’m a drummer, so I was more worried about my hand.”
Judd said she became his 24-hour nurse. “There are days I wake up and cry and say to myself, ‘I just want to go back to a regular day when I don’t have to clean the leg and be a nurse.'”
Moser echoed the sentiment. “Sometimes I’m like, ‘Can’t we have a day where it’s not all about the leg?'”
Still, the couple is moving forward. Moser is getting a “hydraulic, computerized leg” that costs $90,000. And Judd is preparing for her turn on the upcoming season of “Dancing With the Stars.” “I feel guilty about leaving the house, but Cactus said, ‘Honey, go. You have dedicated your life to me. You deserve to go out there and kick butt.”
Just six months after the accident, Wynonna is back on tour with her husband. These photos were taken at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in February of 2013.
