"Let me tell you, it is a degrading, horrible experience when you realize you're losing your husband to another woman." When Johnny Cash's first wife Vivian Liberto filed for divorce after 13 years of marriage, she fully expected him to wed his mistress June Carter. But she never could have predicted that she would be vilified in pop culture as the bitter ex-wife who tried to stop him from singing. To make matters worse, she was temporarily excommunicated from the Catholic Church due to her divorce and banned from taking communion — a ban that was only lifted when Cash himself wrote to the archdiocese confessing his failure as a husband.
@fasc1nate Last photo of Johnny Cash Taken by Marty Stuart on September 8, 2003 in Hendersonville, TN.
@VisionaryVoid @fasc1nate Nice photo indeed
@VisionaryVoid @fasc1nate The man was only 71 years old. He looks much, much older.
@VisionaryVoid @fasc1nate Even in his last days still looked like a bad ass!!!
@VisionaryVoid @fasc1nate We all Grow old. It’s part Of the process. This reality, No matter who you are Or, Your accomplishments, Is temporal 💫
@VisionaryVoid @fasc1nate Exactly how he looked on his Hurt vid!
@VisionaryVoid @fasc1nate I was out his old house last year on the lake
@VisionaryVoid @fasc1nate I love that Marty Stuart took it. He’s always called country music artists a family on his show and honors the old timers. Pretty special.