Larry Strickland on Late Wife Naomi Judd's Final Months: 'It Was a Very Chaotic, Hectic Time'

Larry Strickland distinctly remembers the months leading up to Naomi Judd's death on April 30.

"It was a very chaotic, hectic, hectic time," Strickland, 76, tells PEOPLE from the home in Tennessee he once shared with his wife. "It was extremely hard. She had several therapists that she was seeing, and her energy level had gotten really low. She was getting really weak."

Shortly ahead of the Judds Final Tour, the country singer died by suicide after a long battle with anxiety and severe depression.