On December 12, 1957, musician Jerry Lee Lewis stunned the entire nation by marrying a 13-year-old girl named Myra Brown. The news of their marriage spread like wildfire, and fans were unhappy with this relationship. Their marriage became a hot topic of discussion in the media, and fans stopped going to Lewis’s concerts.
Lewis’ personal life had always been controversial. His second marriage took place 23 days before his first divorce was final. However, his third marriage would turn out to be the most devastating one. Lewis married Myra Brown in 1957, and the couple thought there was nothing wrong with their relationship. But things started to go downhill when the media got to know about their marriage. Initially, Lewis told media outlets that Brown was 15 years of age. However, while touring the UK, the media learned about Brown’s real age and called Lewis a “baby snatcher.” The news led British people to cancel their tickets to Lewis’s concerts without any uncertainty.
On one hand, this entire incident marred Lewis’s rock and roll career. On the other hand, Brown had to face a lot of questions about her marriage. After finalizing his second divorce, Jerry Lee Lewis remarried Myra Brown to revive his career. Sadly, the public remained anti-Lewis, and his ticket prices dropped monumentally. The entire story of their turbulent marriage will be featured on ID’s ‘Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?‘. The episode, titled ‘The Child Bride,’ will air on the network on Monday, December 18, at 9 p.m. ET. Brown’s marriage with Lewis turned many heads, but not many people know how the marriage affected Myra Brown and where she is now. So, let’s dig deeper and get to know more.
Jerry Lee Lewis’ wife: Where is Myra Brown now?
As mentioned above, Jerry Lee Lewis’s career as a rock and roll musician got a serious hit after the news of his marriage with Myra Brown surfaced in the media. Lewis changed his path and started his journey in country music. Fortunately, he garnered a lot of success in the aforementioned genre and started reviving his music career. Meanwhile, the couple remained strong and had no issues in their relationship. But things started getting difficult once Lewis began taking drugs. After 13 years of marriage, the couple divorced in 1970. According to the New York Post, Brown filed for divorce after alleging adultery and abuse. They had two children.
Reports indicate that Myra Brown re-married shortly after the divorce. However, that marriage didn’t last long enough, and the couple got divorced. Meanwhile, she married for the third time in 1984 and continued leading a happy life. Although there is no confirmation about her current whereabouts, several media reports suggest that she became a real estate agent and lives with her husband in Duluth, Florida.
Even though Myra Brown’s marriage to Jerry Lee Lewis ended on a bitter note, the ex-couple never lost contact and conversed with each other because of their daughter, Phoebe. After Lewis’s death in October 2022, Brown said that the “world lost a great entertainer and a very talented man.” While discussing her marriage with Lewis, Brown also noted how she never lost the child bride title. In an interview with Cuepoint, she said, “It’s not a story that ever went away. I’m still the 13-year-old child bride. Sometimes I say something about Jerry, and people say, ‘Isn’t he the one married the little girl?’ and I say, ‘Wait a second, you’re talking to the little girl now—be careful what you say. “
Myra Brown has penned two books discussing his relationship with Jerry Lee Lewis: ‘The Spark That Survived‘ in 2016 and ‘Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis‘ in 1982. Meanwhile, a feature film based on the couple’s life, titled ‘Great Balls of Fire,’ 1989, starred Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis and Winona Ryder as Myra Brown.
