The world’s filest divorces exposed – from Princess Diana to forgotten Will Smith Split
Jerry Lee Lewis and Women
Future rock star Jerry Lee Lewis Was 14 when he married his first wife, Dorothy, who divorced her two years later – a week after getting married to the second bride Janet. He then married the third wife Myra, his 13-year-old cousin, a full five months before separating Janet.
The marriage to Myra was stormy. Lewis drank heavily, had business and hit his wife at home. While he was in Myra’s care, son Stephen drowned, 3, in their swimming pool. Jerry Lee blamed Myra.
One night he called her from the road in a drunk anger and abused her verbally.
When she held a gun against her head and threatened to blow out her brain, Lewis asked her to “close the phone so that I can hear him go off.”
She separated him shortly thereafter, in 1970.
The accident went on. Years, fourth wife of the man known as ‘The Killer’, drowned only a few days after submitting a divorce.
And three months after getting married to wife no. 5, Shawn Stephens, Jerry Lee woke up to see her lying in bed next to him, death of an overdose of methadone. An empty bottle of recipe from him was found in their medicine cabinet.
Eight months later, in 1984, Lewis, 48, married Kerrie McCarver, 22 – and in 1989 the following Lisa Marie Presley promised to get married. When asked how the current woman Kerrie could feel about that, he replied: “That is her problem. I never promised her a rose garden”
