The love story of George Jones and Tammy Wynette: as shared with VF by their daughter, Georgette Jones.
While Wynette and Jones were married, they toured on a bus emblazoned with the words “Mr. and Mrs. Country Music,” but Jones’s alcoholism, drug use, and colorful offstage antics drove the couple apart. “I kept reading articles that said I was the greatest country singer alive,” Jones laterin his 1996 memoir. “I was always appreciative, but I never understood how such a supposedly good singer could be such a troubled person.
Wynette and Jones divorced in 1975, but Georgette says the pair made many attempts to reconcile romantically. “They tried to date for the longest time, even after they were divorced. They still kept trying and I think that shows how much they cared about each other—that they kept hoping the circumstances would be different enough that they could finally make it work.
Georgette says she first heard there was interest in a Hollywood adaptation of her parents’ story that same year, but she was understandably reluctant. “There were certain things that were important to me,” she says, explaining that she had no interest in a project that “sensationalized the drinking and the drugs. I wanted to make sure that my parents were seen as human beings, that their lives were displayed in an honest way—good and bad.
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