Inside Tammy Wynette and George Jones' Bittersweet Love Story
" the boozing, life-of-the-party troublemaker he was often painted as. Rather, she wrote, "George Jones drank to fit in with the partyers, not because it came naturally." She thinks he started overdoing it when he was first playing clubs and that was the sort of crowd he fell in with. "It was almost a defense mechanism," she wrote, "a weapon against his introverted nature.
Wynette first filed for divorce in 1973, but they reconciled, Jones once again vowing to get sober—and they ended up with a No. 1 single on the country chart, the aptly named "We're Gonna Hold On." Regardless, Jones wrote, "the awards had left me during the troubled journey that was my life, a journey across a sea of whiskey and a mountain of cocaine in a vehicle of self-destruction." He noted that, in addition to contacting numerous family and friends to make sure he remembered his own life correctly, his lawyers told him he'd been sued upward of 1,000 times, mainly for failing to show up at contracted appearances.
"If I wanted publicity," she added, "I'd go down to Possum Holler and dance all night." She was referring to a nightclub owned by Jones.for six weeks in 1976 before the union was annulled, had recently wed Richey—a friend who played the organ at her and Tomlin's nuptials—in July 1978., "because if they like me and really like what I am and like what I stand for, then they're gonna love me.
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