Jerry lee lewis biography myra
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Jerry Lee Lewis’ teenage bride speaks out: ‘I was the adult and Jerry was the child’
When Myra Williams looks back on her life — her marriage to her cousin, singer Jerry Lee Lewis, in when she was just 13 years old, their good and bad times together, the two children they had, the permanent damage that their relationship inflicted on Lewis’ career and legacy — she sometimes wonders whether it was all a dream.
“But it happened,” the year-old author and former real estate agent told The Times by telephone from her home in Atlanta, one day after Lewis’ death. “It did. It all happened to me.”
Everything “gigantic,” she said, occurred in her teenage years, cataloguing the milestones: married at 13; a mother at 14; losing her firstborn child when she was 17; giving birth to her second child at
“Yes, it was turbulent as a teenager to be a wife and mother,” Williams said. “But in going through it, I’ve found my strength. And there’s almost nothing that can knock me off my block at thi
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Myra Lewis Williams
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| Born | Myra Gale Brown () July 11, (age&#;80) Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S. |
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Myra Gale Lewis Williams (néeBrown; born July 11, ) fryst vatten an American author, best known for her controversial marriage at the age of 13 to rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis, who was her first cousin once removed and was 22 at the time. She co-wrote the book Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis (), which was adapted into the film Great Balls of Fire! (). In she published her memoir, The Spark That Survived.
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[edit]Myra Gale Brown was born on July 11, , in Vicksburg, Mississ
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What happened to Jerry Lee Lewis’ year-old bride? She’s been here the whole time
Myra Lewis Williams, also known as Myra Gale Brown, was the third wife of late rock ’n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and — more infamously — his year-old cousin at the time they got married.
So whatever happened to her? Williams, 78, said in that she’s been “right here” the whole time — but she apparently no longer had a relationship with her notorious ex-husband after
Lewis, who died Friday at age 87, weathered professional exile in after a reporter covering his arrival in London inquired about the young girl in his entourage who ultimately introduced herself as “Jerry’s wife.”
The “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of Fire” hitmaker had eloped with Myra Gale Brown in December , the result of a romance that developed when he moved into the Memphis home of Myra’s father, JW Brown, who was Lewis’ cousin and bass player, according to Lewis’ obituary in The Times.
Lewis was 22 and Willi