Jerry Lee Lewis' teenage bride speaks out: 'I was the adult and Jerry was the child'
When Myra Williams looks back on her life — her marriage to her second cousin, singer Jerry Lee Lewis, in 1957 when she was just 13 years old, their good and bad times together, the two children they had, the permanent damage that their relationship inflicted on Lewis' career and legacy — she sometimes wonders whether it was all a dream.
"But it happened," the 78-year-old author and former realtor told the Los Angeles Times by telephone from her home in Atlanta, one day after Lewis' death. "It did. It all happened to me."
Everything "gigantic," she said, occurred in her teenage years, cataloguing the milestones: married at 13, a mother at 14, losing her firstborn child when she was 17, giving birth to her second child at 19.
