Paternity Scandal: Naomi Judd's Ex-Husband Accuses Late Singer Of Tricking Him Into Marriage By Falsely Claiming Wynonna Was His Daughter

"She came to me and told me she was pregnant," he stated in a 1995 interview. "I didn't assume for a moment that an 18-year-old girl whom I had known for quite some time would tell lies about something like that.

Ciminella alleged that Naomi, who was a senior in high school, misled him "because she thought my family had more money" than Jordan's."

Ciminella said he realized Wynonna was not his child when she was 3, shortly before the couple's daughter, Ashley Judd, was born.

"I just looked at her real carefully, and I knew," he revealed to his hometown paper, the Ashland Independent. He said Naomi later admitted to him that Jordan was the father, but no one ever told Wynonna.

The web of lies began to unravel when Terry Steele, Naomi's former lover, revealed that the singer had told him Wynonna was not Ciminella's child. She later told her daughter who her real father was.

Jordan later told his part of the story.

Ciminella said Wynonna confronted her mother about why she had never told her the truth. "Her mother told her it was because she was afraid she'd throw her out of the act," he claimed.

Ciminella, who admitted to an up-and-down relationship with Naomi, said he spoke out because of her less-than-flattering portrait of him in her biography, Love Can Build a Bridge.

"Naomi has spent her career saying what a horrible person I was when she, in fact, is the one who didn't do what is, quote, right," he claimed. "She let me take the rap for something I did not do.

"I have been lied about and ridiculed in my hometown," he added.