Jerry Lee Lewis dies at 87: What Myra Williams, his 13-year-old wife, said about their marriage

Jerry Lee Lewis was remembered as a rock 'n' roll icon before he died at the age of 87.

The career of the 22-year-old musician fell apart when his marriage to the 13-year-old cousin was made public.

Brown gave an interview to Alan Light in which she talked about her relationship with Lewis.

It is not a story that has stopped being told. Williams is a real-estate broker in Atlanta. I say something about Jerry and people say, "Aren't he the one who married the little girl?" and I say, "Wait a second, you're talking to the little girl now!"

Williams was Lewis' third wife.

Williams said that she let the big ol' cat out of the bag about their marriage to the press in London.

She said that she couldn't believe that they couldn't see that she was a woman. "My generation was taught to hide under our desk when the bomb went off, so you always had in the back of your mind that life was about to end."

"If you say to me, 'There's a 13-year-old girl over here who wants to get married,' I would say'God, please do not do that, little girl,'" she said. It was a different world than it is now. This world has gone so fast that you can't keep up with it.

Lewis' career was hurt by the revelation of their marriage, according to Williams. Williams described their following years together as "the happiest years of our marriage."

Rock 'n' Roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis has died at the age of 87.

She said that it marked Jerry for the rest of his life. It didn't happen because we kept thinking that they would stop talking about it. After that, we had ten wonderful, wonderful years together. We were a small camp that had been attacked by the enemy and we held strong to each other and said we were going to keep fighting.

Williams said that her relationship with Lewis gave critics more leverage to attack the genre.

She said that they were looking for a place to put the knife. Jerry gave it to them. It was what it was.

Williams wrote a couple books about her relationship with Jerry Lee Lewis.

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Jerry Lee Lewis' wife told him what she thought about their marriage.