Willie Nelson’s doc bombshells: Wife finds mistress’ baby hospital bill, an ex-relative shoot-out — and a fork stabbing
nypost.comthe 90-year-old country music icon — who is still on tour at his advanced age. The four-part series covers everything from his early days in Texas to his troubled drinking days, affairs and shoot-outs with former family members, accompanied by commentary from Nelson and his kids.
About his father’s life, his son Lukas, 34, said in the doc, “Dad has been homeless, he’s had his house burnt down, he’s been through four marriages, he’s been up and down, he’s been broke … he’s lost a child … that’s what makes him inspiring to me: his resilience in the face of adversity.”Here are the biggest bombshells: Nelson has been married four times: to Martha Matthews from 1952 to 1962, to Shirley Collie from 1963 to 1971, to Connie Koepke from 1971-1988, and to Annie D’Angelo from 1991 to the present.
He met Matthews when he was 19 and she was 16. “She was a dark-haired beauty, a full-blooded Cherokee,” Nelson says in the series. “Her eyes set my soul on fire, and her name was Martha Jewel.”Matthews died of liver failure in 1989.
About their relationship, Nelson said, “We had a lot of fun together but we fought, and we both were drinking a lot in those days.
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