She is the cousin removed and former wife of late popular singer and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis. Jerry Lee Lewis passed away Friday at age 87, and along with the outpouring of tributes to his talents came reminders of his notorious marriage to his 13-year-old cousin in 1957. It was thought to be an exciting time for Lewis: Elvis Presley had just been drafted into the military, meaning he had less competition in the rock 'n' roll scene. Due to her marriage with Jerry Lewis, she was controversial in the media. Because that was the truth! At one time, it seemed like I was burying somebody every week.. Lewis, who died Friday at age 87, weathered professional exile in 1958 after a reporter covering his arrival in London inquired about the young girl in his entourage who ultimately introduced herself as Jerrys wife.. And . Brown vzal prci s Memphis Gas, Light and Water, kde pracoval jako lineman. And live with it. He seemed wounded to the women he met, and sometimes they would go to bed with him because they were sympathetic to the wounded man. When fans learned of this while Lewis was on tour overseas in 1958, it exploded into a . And still, the world remains fascinated by the marriagewhen the Wall Street Journal asked him about it recently, he said, I probably would have rearranged my life a little bit different, but I never did hide anything from people The newspapers in England came down heavy but they didnt faze me, really. Jerry Lee Lewis, left, poses with Myra Gale Brown at a London press conference on May 24, 1958. Though Lewis and his team had come up with a story about Brown being 15, Brown reportedly wasn't told about this plan. Phoebe worked for him and when I visited her I would still see him, too. We dont have the promise of the next breath. I was seeing someone punished because of my age, my existence, and I always wanted to just stand up and defend him. And vastly more trouble-prone than all of them. "I don't think I ever resented it for me, though, I always resented it for what they did to Jerry," Williams said of the marriage, per Medium. My little brother was born because I begged my parents for a baby at ten years old.. Sun stopped promoting him, radio stopped playing him. There was trouble from the start of Shawns marriage to the rock & roll legend, wrote Cramer. Elvis didnt marry a little 16-year-old girl, did he? The negative press continued as Lewis and Brown returned to the United States, with people focusing on both Browns age and the fact that they had married before Lewis' last divorce was finalised. In 1958, when Elvis Presley was drafted into the military . [1] They went on to make rock and roll history, recording hit singles on Sun Records. I never lost the first name 13-year-old-child-bride-MyraI think thats on my birth certificate now! Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesThirteen year old Myra Gale Brown sitting on Jerry Lee Lewis lap. It was something that marked Jerry for life. The British public, fueled by the tabloids branding Lewis as a cradle robber and a baby snatcher, practically drove him out of the country, vehemently abhorring his relationship. Jerry Lee Lewis knew how to inhabit that role. Along with sporadically brilliant music, death, violence, and illness some of it directly his doing became leitmotifs of Jerry Lee Lewis life. This week, Jerry Lee will release both Rock & Roll Time, a studio album of duets, and a memoir, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story, written with Rick Bragg. Go to college, get an education, then figure it out. But it was a different world, things have changed so drastically. But Lewis had a storied private life, and his career took a nosedive in the late 1950s, when he married Myra Gale Brown. Wrote Rick Bragg: If Jerry Lee was so smart, Elvis reportedly responded, how come Elvis was playing the big room, and Jerry Lee was playing the lounge?. Great Balls of Fire is the toon of rock movies, with Jerry Lee Lewis reduced on screen to Roger Rabbit, Times music critic Robert Hilburn wrote at the time. But they didnt, and I didnt, and the rest is history, I guess. Brown was Lewis' first cousin once-removed. But others would. It turned out that she was a first-cousin once-removed and - shockingly - just 13 years old. Why do you think they call me the Killer? Two months later, Shawn was dead., Though it was eventually concluded that Shawn had died of an overdose of methadone, and that there was no indication at all of foul play, Cramer uncovered much overlooked (and withheld) evidence, including clear indications that there had been some sort of fight at the Lewis house the night of the young womans death. On June 8, 1982, the marriage to Jaren Pate came to an end. What Happened To Her? 2, In Loving Memories: The Jerry Lee Lewis Gospel Album, The SessionRecorded in London with Great Artists, By Request: More of the Greatest Live Show on Earth, She Still Comes Around (To Love What's Left of Me), What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me), When He Walks on You (Like You Have Walked On Me), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Myra_Lewis_Williams&oldid=1138714619, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 11 February 2023, at 05:24. I didnt question God., He was supposed to travel to England in a few days his first trip there since the country had shamed him. Nobody knew Jerry Lee Lewis was coming to town, and few would have cared to know. Matthew McConaughey Voices Elvis Presley in Priscilla-Approved Animated Series Agent Elvis Im here to see Elvis, he announced. After their divorce in 1970, Williams. The British press reacted with outrage. If you think you know [my] story of being the 13 year old bride of my second cousin, youre in for a surprise, she teased. Thats exactly what it was. After the two were married on December 12, 1957, Lewis planned to take Brown along on a tour of England. Brown. Myra Lewis - Biography. Jerry Lee would never accept her child as his, and no one would ever launch any legal proceeding to prove his parentage. When he burned brightly, in the mid-to-late 1950s, he was untouchable. For all his scandals, for all his awful misdeeds, he nevertheless built up a reserve of goodwill, in part because he was indefatigable. Myra Gale Brown today known as Myra Lewis William, was an American author. We want to hear it. After thirteen years of marriage, they were divorced in 1970, when Myra charged that she has been subject to every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable; Jerry Lee later said that it was all my faultshe caught me cheating. When we met, she described their relationship as a successful divorce, though more recently it seems theyve been clashing over his current, seventh wife. In my little mind, I couldnt believe that they could not see that I was a grown woman. He married a 13-year-old, Myra Gale Brown, who later said she was subject to every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable. He shot his bass player, was a serial adulterer, abused drugs and alcohol and several other of his seven wives and thats just a partial list of transgressions. That did.. Williams maintained it was a different time, and she would now discourage any 13-year-old girl from marriage and instead pursue going to college. He headed out to a nightclub, then called home at 3 a.m. Myra said she pulled a pistol from a nightstand and put it to her head and told Jerry Lee what she was prepared to do. All Rights reserved. ", A post shared by Myra Lewis Williams (@mlwauthor). I think this book will warm your heart, tickle your funny bone, and touch your soul. Williams described to Light the moment when the world learned of their scandalous marriage. She has not commented on the death of her ex-husband. It was really the first scandal of rock n roll, Williams told Georgias Gwinnett Daily Post in 2016. "They were looking for a place to stick the knife into rock & roll. The officers asked Presley what he wanted them to do. At the time, she hadn't realized that there was anything wrong with her relationship with Lewis. If I can survive lifes worst tragedies and my own dumb-ass decisions, you can, too.. Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. [15][19][11], She is shown being interviewed in the Ethan Coen directed 2022 documentary film Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind.[21]. Despite re-marrying Brown, this time in a legal ceremony during which he was not already married, and moving in with her parents afterward, the public remained firmly anti-Lewis. Its got a hair trigger. Bragg related what happened next: It appears to be that way, Butch, Jerry Lee said, too drunk to be overly concerned. Brown. Neither was badly hurt in the accident, but Lewis got charged with drunk and reckless driving. Brown, Lewis cousin and the bass player in his band. She was 13 at the time. [14] Although Brown found the actors to be talented and friendly, she was not satisfied with the book or the film. Los Angeles, Review: A reimagined Secret Garden fails to flower anew at the Ahmanson Theatre, Justin Biebers Justice world tour canceled after several postponements, Blake Shelton embarks on last season of The Voice before doing a little bit of nothing, Madonna salutes late brother Anthony Ciccone for blowing my mind as a young girl, L.A. Phils 2023-24 season lineup celebrates the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall, Cardi B changes tune on community service, calls it best thing, spiritual journey. I was only 13, but people said I was more mature than Jerry. We were like a little camp that had been attacked by the enemy, and we held strong to each other and said, regardless of what they do, were going to keep fighting. The "Great Balls of Fire" rocker's career took a hit following his marriage to Myra Gale Brown, his first cousin once removed and the daughter of Lewis' bassist. Since his death he has appeared in movies, music videos, and his memorabilia has been highly collectable; a pair of his glasses sold for $45,000 in an auction. Judith was married to Brown's brother, Rusty, who was just a small child when Brown and Lewis tied the knot. [6][7] In addition, Lewis had not yet divorced his previous wife, Jane Mitcham. It is said that Myra still believed in Santa Claus when they were married. Some artists can only be the person they dreamed of being in those moments when they are onstage or before a camera or singing a song or writing a page. Jerry Lee Lewis would remain a mix of good news and bad until he was too old to trouble anybody much, but that was a long time and a lot of trouble later. His third marriage was to his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown, which lasted from 1958 to 1970. Jerry Lee Lewis wasnt just complicated; he was fucked up. The fans there were so excited to see Jerry that the biggest problem was his safetyScotland Yard said, We dont know how to protect you. The people were climbing on the buildings, looking through windows trying to find us and we couldnt go out. In Great Balls of Fire, Myra told of a night toward the end when Jerry came home and woke her, demanding sex. [1] The Browns later had a son, Rusty Brown (b. He went immediately from being a guy who made $10,000 a night to a guy who didnt make $100 a night.". On Easter Sunday, 1962, Jerry Lee was in Minnesota for a show. Everything just came together and a major explosion happened.". Oct. 28, 2022 3:46 PM PT 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 13-year-old cousin. Still, somehow, Jerry Lee got second chances, albeit in unexpected ways. If anybody had told me anything, I could have prevented this thing. My little brother was born because I begged my parents for a baby at ten years old.". The preachers hated it. Though his rock career was forever marred by his marriage to Myra Gale Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis eventually found success in country music. By the time they made it home, it had been discovered that Myra was the daughter of Jerry Lees cousin and bass player, J.W. American actor Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis and Winona Ryder as Myra Gale Brown in the film "Great Balls of Fire!", a 1989 biopic of the famous rock 'n' roll musician. Myra Lewis was born on July 11, 1944 in the USA as Myra Gale Brown. I accepted it. Now Im older and wiser, and [not] malleable in the hands of others. That night Jerry Lee went to a club, drank champagne, and admired a brand new .38 derringer the club owner had given him. Browns daughter,' she said, looking back on the day it was revealed she was 13 and Jerry Lee Lewis spouse. Everything came together at one time, and heres Elvis and heres rock & roll and heres Dick Clark and Ed Sullivana new generation born, a new music born. Meanwhile, Williams wrote in an Instagram post in 2015 that she had keep in contact with Lewis over the years due to their shared daughter, Phoebe. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Youre fine. But I never felt fine. You see, Myra did not survive that marriage. Others think he suspected Othello of having slept with his own wife. He made himself a sandwich and then found her in the bedroom, and, she claimed, thumped her on the head. It was as if now being onstage wasnt saving him like it had; it was simply a means to stay on the road with musicians he could party with. People didn't know it at the time that they wed, but although she was listed as a 20-year-old, legally Brown was actually only 13 (via Biography). She was controversial in the news due to her marriage to Jerry Lewis. Myra Gale Brown, during their divorce proceedings in 1970, accused him of subjecting her to "every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable." He ran into various legal, financial and. Fellow singer, Kris Kristofferson, who was also in the UK at the time,remembered the way Lewis was treated. Lewis who died Oct. 28 at his home in DeSoto County, Mississippi did terrible things, repeatedly, across the decades. After a long buildup, when he gets to his final declarations of You know what I want/You know what I got to have, his voice turns into a taunting laugh that is prurient and menacing. According to Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found, by author Joe Bonomo, he later said, I was a 21-year-old kid, and I didnt know whether I was comin or goin. From the late 1960s through the 1970s, he placed 21 songs in the Billboard Country and Western charts Top 10. Jerry Lee & Myra Lewis Interview ( 1958 ) robin haugsnes 5.68K subscribers Subscribe 793 Share 365K views 14 years ago Jerry telling about his tour in London, where everything went pretty bad,. They called it the devils music. Lewis was 22. It didnt matter to me. Select from premium Myra Brown of the highest quality. Jerry Lee Lewis and Myra Gale Brown shortly after their wedding in December 1957. What I wanted was a baby in my arms, a home, a husband, a kitchen to cook in, a yard to raise roses. Lewis had told everyone that Brown was his wife but failed to mention her actual age, instead, telling them she was 15. His bride, Myra Gale Brown, was also thrust into the spotlight, and years later discussed how she "never lost the first name '13-year-old-child-bride-Myra.'". Maybe that was unintentional retribution on her part. Jerry Lee Lewis marriage to his 13-year-old cousin in 1957 nearly ended his career. Myra Brown, first cousin once removed and third wife of American rock and roll star, Jerry Lee Lewis, in London at the beginning of Lewis's planned British tour, 26th May 1958. Thats what this book basically is, this is what happened, this is how I handled it and here I am today, she said. Newspapers called for a boycott of his concerts. Then, very softly, he said, Put the phone close so I can hear it go off., When she finally served him with divorce papers, he begged her not to go, but she did. First, Myra Gale Brown had been just 13 years old when they got married on Dec. 12, 1957. They did have one tiff. When I visited her, Myra told the L.A. Times this year, I would still see him, too. Phoebe quit working for him and I havent seen him since. However, upon landing in the country with his child-bride, it became clear that the Brits were not on board with Jerry Lee Lewis. [13], Shortly after her divorce, Brown married Pete Malito,[14] the detective she had hired to trail Lewis and document his infidelities,[15] and moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Myra would join him for his U.S. tours, riding with him in the car, often arriving at venues where there had been no promotion. He went to Los Angeles, where the musical Catch My Soul would be staged at the Ahmanson Theatre. That was what I was like, and Jerry was busy having fun, he was the true entertainer. Im still the 13-year-old child bride. Remember, gossip is not gospel," Lewis wrote on Instagram in 2015. Myra Gale Brown : I don't even know what hydrogen is. "It was really the first scandal of rock 'n' roll," Brown said in an interview with Georgias Gwinnett Daily Post in 2016. {RP18+MovieBasedGreat Balls Of Fire} Joined February 2012. They said Jerry played to a half-empty house, and they booed and that kind of stuff, and that was not true. She is an American author and is famed with her botched marriage with Jerry Lewis. Lewis passed away Friday at age 87, and along with the outpouring of tributes to his talents came reminders of his notorious marriage to his 13-year-old cousin in 1957. He kept recording, releasing more than 40 albums from 1958 to 2014. I was getting to sell more records than Elvis. He sought out his cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, who was also an unknown musician at the time. Lewis' passing was announced on. [1] In 1949, the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, when J.W. To some degree, Lewis and those who venerated him were able to spin his worst qualities into a kind of dark legend. V roce 1949 se rodina pesthovala do Memphisu v Tennessee, kdy J.W. Brown's age and blood relationship to Lewis caused an uproar on his first tour of England and was later criticized . [14], Brown hired writer Murray Silver to co-write a book that was meant to be her autobiography, but after a publisher's editing it became Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis. My generation was taught to hide under our desk when the bomb came, so you always had in the back of your mind that any minute, any day, life could come to an end. [19], Since 1980, Brown has enjoyed success as a real estate agent in Atlanta. Maybe during what Miles called the wilderness years, Lewis played with this much ferocity on God knows how many nights. Brown took a job with Memphis Gas, Light and Water, where he worked as a lineman. He hit the gate, he went on, Cause Is drunk.. The preachers hated it. . According to Rick Bragg in Jerry Lee: His Own Story, Owens handed it over to the singer and said, Careful. There were so many stories told that were not necessarily the truth, or else it was the truth wearing a mask. [16][14] The book was originally released in October 1982 by William Morrow and Company. For that distinction as well as for the startling depth and display of his talent some rock & roll chroniclers regarded him as perhaps the exemplary performer of his era: more unrepressed than Elvis Presley, more forcible than Chuck Berry, more insolent than Little Richard. Myra Gale Brown was with Jerry Lee Lewis on his 1958 tour of England, hoping to expand his fan base, when a British reporter asked who she was. The album of the same name proved not only among his best, but also among the best country albums of the period. Brown played electric bass, and Lewis played piano and sang. I could so easily have said, Im J.W. Newsweek attempted to reach Williams for comment. But they didnt, and I didnt, and the rest is history, I guess.. Sometimes I say something about Jerry and people say, Isnt he the one married the little girl? and I say, Wait a second, youre talking to the little girl nowbe careful what you say.. Behind the Graceland Gates at Lisa Marie's Memorial: We Watched Her Go Through Her Struggles, Two days after the tour started, Lewis called it off. Light wrote that the duo were "joking and giggling, poking and swatting each other, Jerry Lee even sneaking a kiss at one point". "I was in England when they ran him out of the country," Kristofferson said. Everything changed. The couple were due in court that same month to end the union. A few years ago, Rolling Stone sent me to the Lewis Ranch in Nesbit, Mississippi. Shes hittin herself in the face., Another night, when shed flushed his pills down the toilet for fear hed kill himself, he went into a rage and bashed her to the floor. But Lewis had a storied private life, and his career took a nosedive in the late 1950s, when he married Myra Gale Brown. Lewis's daughter Phoebe had hired Brown to take care of her aging father when he was ill around ten years ago. That Time Jerry Lee Lewis Married Myra Gale Brown, His 13-Year-Old Cousin. Lewis, who was 22 at the time, had lied about her age in order for the wedding to happen, and hadnt yet been divorced from his second wife at the time of his and Myras wedding. She also said she felt their marriage was their own business and not for the world to judge. Myra took Steven to church for the first time. Myra Gale and Jerry Lee Lewis, first cousins once removed, married when she was thirteen years old and he was twenty-two. The rock & roll establishment, always willing to look the other way, embraced him. He also did terrible things, over and over, Lewis with his 13-year-old wife, Myra Gale Brown, The Million Dollar Quartet: Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash at Sun Studios on December 4, 1956, Backstage at the Palladium in London, April 1972, Jerry Lee Lewis Was a Rock & Roll Titan. [5] This caused an uproar and after a few dates the tour was cancelled. It was about being with somebody you couldnt keep: I just put in my last dime/Heard you whisper wed meet again/Another place, another time. He sang it. I have the devil in me! he shouted. Jerry Lee Lewis married his second cousin Myra Gale Brown when she was just 13. Hulton Arcive/Getty ImagesJerry Lee Lewis and Myra Gale Brown shortly after their wedding in December 1957. After reading about the third wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, Myra Gale Brown, check out Lori Maddox and Sable Starr, two teenage groupies who made a career out of chasing after rock stars. Earthy colored was brought into the world on July 11, 1944, in Winnsboro, Louisiana, the girl of Lois and Jay "J.W." Brown. Myra Lewis Williams (ne Gale Brown, July 11, 1944) is an American author, best known for her controversial marriage at the age of 13 to rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis, who is her first cousin once removed and was 22 at the time. Who are you? the reporter asked. @cat well that's gross, but at this point, it's not all that surprising. Discover Myra Lewis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. "Because that was the truth! It was my familys business, it was mine and Jerrys business. In 1957 Lewis recorded two titanic rock & roll hits, Whole Lot of Shakin Going On and Great Balls of Fire. At the session for the latter, Lewis told Sam Phillips who owned and operated Memphis Sun Records, where Lewis was recording that the music he was playing, worldly music rock & roll, meant he was broken off from God. Myra Gale Brown was born on July 11, 1944, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the daughter of Lois (ne Neal) and J.W. Or did that possibility somehow further his antihero standing? As of Friday afternoon, Williams had not released a public statement about Lewis death. Myra Lewis Williams, as she's now known, made those comments to journalist Alan Light when he met up with her and Lewis for a 2010 story for Rolling Stone. She co-wrote many books, such as Great Book Of Fire and The Spark That Survived, and earned people's love and popularity through her book. Lewis's latest marriage is to Judith Brown. Who is Myra Gale Brown? He stepped from the car. And I really, truly wasnt a typical teenager. On December 12, 1957, Lewis wed a woman named Myra Gale Brown (pictured above), who was also his cousin. After the press found out in 1958 that Lewis, then 22, married his young cousin, the rock-and-roll star experienced a tremendous backlash that stalled his career for years. Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old? His son Jerry Lee Lewis Jr., from an earlier marriage, wanted to drum in his fathers band and to live like his father, but he didnt have the mental constitution for the drug use. He said to their seven-year-old daughter, Phoebe, who was witnessing all this, Look, Phoebe, your mamas gone crazy. Myra Gale Brown later turned Myra Lewis Williams was born on 11th July, 1944. It led to a drop in ticket sales for Lewis, damaging his income. Browns pozdji ml syna, Rusty Brown (b. She had wanted to tell the story of a woman surviving difficult circumstances and inspire women to understand their own strengths,[18] so she published her memoir, The Spark That Survived, in 2016. @rush it does seem incredible, but half of the states in the US still have no minimum age for marriage in 2022. What I wanted was a baby in my arms, a home, a husband, a kitchen to cook in, a yard to raise roses. Selena Gomez Taking a Break From Social Media After Hailey Bieber Drama: I'm 'Too Old for This. The British tabloids went ballistic, and after a few dates, the tour was cancelled. Really? Things had been turning bad in the marriage. Owens survived and successfully sued Jerry Lee for $50,000. Tweets & replies. Myra Gale Brown 20:34, 28 OCT 2022. ), Lewis, though, wasnt planning on leaving rock & roll. After the controversy in the UK, Lewis could no longer find success performing rock 'n' roll music, and found he had to pivot into country music instead. In 1959, he and Myra had had their first child, Steven Allen Lewis. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . It also ruined Lewis' career. By the time he was 21, he had begun recording with the likes of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. 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