MUSIC may have come naturally to country singer Tammy Wynette, but her lifelong search for love was one of the most complicated.
The music legend was married a total of five times with her shortest marriage lasting just under two months.
Who was Tammy Wynette married to?
Euple Byrd
Tammy married Euple when she was 18 in 1960.
He was an in-and-out-of-employment construction worker, and they moved many times.
By the time Wynette was 20, she had two daughters.
It was while she was pregnant with their third child that she decided to divorce Byrd.
Wynette packed up and moved to Nashville with the children in 1966 with hopes of being a singer.
Don Chapel
Don Chapel was Tammy’s second husband, whom she met after moving to Nashville in 1965.
Don worked as a front desk attendant at the Red Anchor Motel in Nashville, where Tammy was staying.
After dating for quite a while, the pair finally got married in 1967.
However, their marriage was short as Tammy’s growing affection for another man led to the couple’s divorce in 1968.
Tammy claimed in her autobiography that Don had taken and traded her inappropriate pictures to other male colleagues.
Don denied the allegations and later fined a lawsuit against Tammy for 37 million dollars.
Chapel passed away in 2015.
George Jones
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Goerge and Tammy were married from 1969 to 1975.
They were country music’s royal couple and eventually had one daughter.
However, their relationship ended in divorce due to Jones’ struggle with substance abuse.
Despite going their separate ways, they continued to work together sporadically for decades after.
Michael Tomlin
In 1977, Wynette wed a businessman named Michael Tomlin.
According to the Cocaine and Rhinestones podcast, he was dating her hairdresser while she was reportedly dating a few men before they got together.
Their marriage was short-lived, and they reportedly split up after less than two months.
George Richey
Richey had previously been a songwriter, music publisher, and record producer.
Tammy and Richey already had a professional relationship prior to their marriage.
But after a recording session one evening, he professed his love for Wynette and the pair later married in 1978.
Although Wynette told the press that she loved Richey, her family and friends claimed that she regretted her decision to marry him.
“It was an emotionally abusive relationship,” reported her daughter Georgette Jones.
They stayed together until her unexpected death in 1998.
Richey later remarried Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Sheila Slaughter in 2001.
He died in 2010 at the age of 74.
Who are Tammy Wynette’s children?
Tammy had several stepchildren brought in from the side of her various husbands.
However, she only had four children of her own, all of them daughters.
From her first marriage, Tammy had three daughters— Gwendolyn Lee, Jackie Daly, and Tina Denise Byrd.
From her marriage with George Jones, she had Georgette Jones.