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@petervanettinger2566 Жыл бұрын
did you know a pedophile had a dark side?
@johnharris3362 Жыл бұрын
I don't believe you'd find many people who didn't have a dark side..
@Christinabutterfly99710 ай бұрын
He definitely had a dark side grooming and pushing a child into marriage. Sick
@Emma77x7 Жыл бұрын
Most 13 year old girls think they are more mature than they really are. What a tragedy, there is nothing okay about this and Myra can tell her anything she likes to make her feel okay about what happened, but it was not okay!
@donna25871 Жыл бұрын
So blame the child and not the adult?
@Emma77x7 Жыл бұрын
@@donna25871 I wasn't blaming the child, just stating a fact having been a teenage girl once myself. I liked older boys at that age too, but I had parents that were mindful of me. I do blame the adults that surrounded her. God bless you!
@vanessahenry7238 Жыл бұрын
@@Emma77x7 I liked older men as well - I am just glad my father was paying attention and told me not to get so enamoured. It is common - but you have to have parents willing to watch your back.
@Emma77x7 Жыл бұрын
@@vanessahenry7238 Amen, a solid family makes the difference. God bless you!
@fay547911 ай бұрын
@@Emma77x7 the average pdf abuses between 90 and 115 children...2 thirds speak up to adults...up to 90 children are failed by all adults. I also was a teenage girl and my sport teacher a/s-ed me...told everyone including the school director with 2 witnesses. I was ignored, well worse still, my English teacher was his gf, so she flunked me. Not one adult helped.
@stpat7614 Жыл бұрын
She defended him, yet admits he hit her and had affairs. Their early "courtship" sounds like grooming.
@personincognito3989 Жыл бұрын
Well it was, she was a mere child
@terridalessandro341211 ай бұрын
i was 18 (1963) when i married he was 20 - went out for two years - he hit me and i still married him??? when you're young you are clingy and think you can't find any one else - i'm sure other women will agree with this! you have to grow up to realize you are worth more than that! it all seems like life will be rosy but then the reality comes and the girl has to grow up fast. today, people don't work at staying married, it's a job! just have a good time go to college, parties, travel get a good job then think about marriage after age 27
@JdWi-9611 ай бұрын
PEDOPHILIA
@jenmurphy777711 ай бұрын
That's exactly what courtship of a minor is...grooming!
@cathyl588811 ай бұрын
It was both grooming and pedophilia
@eleanoraquitaine2966 Жыл бұрын
How to groom a child then make up a story about how mature she was and how it. was all her choice. Sick as it gets.
@asbisi Жыл бұрын
Those men always tell their victims they are "mature" for their age. Classic.
@melodypanek448 Жыл бұрын
Ugh. He was a child abuser. This is extremely unhealthy and immoral. He should've been in jail.
@moorek1967 Жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@deborahwhit118 Жыл бұрын
12 years old in some states
@johnharris3362 Жыл бұрын
Same way with Elvis grooming Priscilla at 14.
@melodypanek448 Жыл бұрын
@@johnharris3362 not exactly. Priscilla was of age when she and Elvis married. Supposedly, they did not consummate their union till then. But then again, who knows?
@johnharris3362 Жыл бұрын
@@melodypanek448 I certainly don't know either but it just doesn't sound any better then Jerry Lee's situation .
@chatty1961 Жыл бұрын
Child marriages are about owning a wife not having a wife. Chances that these young girls are being respected and treated like equal partners are low. By marrying a teenager, the adult can take total control. The idea that a thirteen year old is ready for marriage is really about a grown man wanting a baby factory, to cook , clean and serve him. If these men really care about these young girls, they would put their selfishness aside and wait. There are plenty of women who stay married because they feel trapped.
@martyal Жыл бұрын
They feel trapped because they are trapped.
@jujutrini8412 Жыл бұрын
It’s also a se*ual preference for perverts - hebephilia.
@poetcomic1 Жыл бұрын
Mountain people and rural Southerners have much less problem with early marriages.
@SpringerA1984 Жыл бұрын
AAALLL OF THIS!! Sex trafficking of children is an extremist religion problem to the nth degree.
@williampowell272211 ай бұрын
human trafficking preys on young people for enslavement. look at the people that patronized jeffery epstein. it's just the tip of the iceberg and society has turned a blind eye to this.
@heatherlinnette189 Жыл бұрын
The most shocking thing is that it was even legal in the first place, and in some states in the USA, it still is that’s what shocking! If it was not legal, it would never have happened in this particular instance.
@nevillepitout1374 Жыл бұрын
They would still have done the stuff
@artieanderson604 Жыл бұрын
Remember: He forged her name on the marriage license. He made it look like she was old enough. If it had been my daughter, annulment and possibly a convent until she was 18 would have been an option.
@deborahwhit118 Жыл бұрын
It legal in some states
@Brutus-co9dt Жыл бұрын
@@deborahwhit118which?
@donna25871 Жыл бұрын
It’s still legal in some US states today.
@curlyque2717 Жыл бұрын
He was a cad. My father liked his music and took my Mom to a concert. After listening to him talk lewd and rude toward several women, my Dad walked out. Had no use for him or his music after that.
@joymyers5771 Жыл бұрын
Several girls in my highschool were married at 15 and 16 I graduated in 1990 My own father signed for me to get married as a teenager. Its more common than people know I feel so sorry for this little girl
@Gazman67 Жыл бұрын
Yep as you say , "Little Girl."
@kathleenzinkovitch4050 Жыл бұрын
Most likely forced to marry due to pregnancy..I got married at 15 only cause I was pregnant, he was 18 ,I had two children with my first husband , divorced by the time I was 19 ..
@michellecollins290 Жыл бұрын
Can you get married at 15 in the US? Wow if so.
@momof1576 Жыл бұрын
16 is a lot more mature than 13. 13 is very young.
@SpringerA1984 Жыл бұрын
Shiiiite. Big reason why sex Ed should be mandatory & religious sex trafficking should be utterly banned. Abortion needs to be accessible world over.
@randomvintagefilm273 Жыл бұрын
He forged her signature on the marriage license? I think he was gross
@RJ1999x10 ай бұрын
Yet you are silent about Elvis doing Priscilla
@wotawanancy3249 Жыл бұрын
Shes a year older than me. There is no way I would marry at 13. The parents should have had it annulled. Jerry was something else.🤦♀️
@clarkewi Жыл бұрын
People in the South married young in those days.
@FactsVerse Жыл бұрын
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@blazefairchild465 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely the parents could have had it annulled because it wasn’t even legal he was already married! The tabloids should have made more news about what laws he was breaking & put that type of spin on it. This was more calling him a Chomo, her parents selling her off , her being a hussy , they were all shunned. He could have been a real man instead of a juvenile horn dog . He could have gotten his divorce then did his European tour then she’d have been a year older and it would have just been a young love story. But boys will be boys and men will be chomos.
@MrsGator7 Жыл бұрын
@@clarkewinot just the south
@x77punk77x11 ай бұрын
It’s pedophilia plain and simple. Absolutely disgusting.
@springsogourne11 ай бұрын
I was 13 and had a 19 year old boyfriend. My parents actually allowed it!! This was back in 1973 when the word “groomer” wasn’t even a thing. I broke up with him when I was 15 and he was 21. He was abusive and he put me through hell. 13 years old is too young for marriage, I don’t care how mature you think you are.
@FactsVerse11 ай бұрын
Very interesting, thank you so much for sharing your life story. How are you now?
@alfx543210 ай бұрын
When I was 18 young girls around this age would hang out with my friends , I knew a nice girl of 13 who liked me she was very developed i should say, we hung out a little nouthing ever happened between us she invited me over her home I met her mother. That was in the 1980s .
@jayadaradhika140810 ай бұрын
It's not always a case of grooming, though mostly it is, most probably. Not for my great grand parents anyhow. Also, please remember that this took place at the turn of the century, early 1900s. Different time, different outlooks, before 18 was made the mandatory age of a teenager's transition from teen to adult. My great-grandmother met her boyfriend when she was 13 and he, 18. They totally fell for each other. He was always respectful and always treated her well. When she was 16 and him 21, their friends asked them why on earth they weren't married yet, as they were so in love. He proposed on the spot and she accepted. Her beat friend organised they whole thing for them! She went home, told her Mom she was going to spend the night at her friend's house, packed her best dress, and went off and got married. As newly weds, they got their first little house on the edge of the woods. He was wallpapering they ceiling, as they did in those days, when all the wet wallpaper fell on top of him just as she came in with his lunch. She burst out laughing, he was totally offended, chased her round the house, and she grabbed a basket and ran into the woods and picked berries until she figured he'd calmed down. She brought the basket of barries back as a gift for him, and they both felt so awful and miserable for fighting that they made a packed there, and then that they wouldn't ever go to sleep on a fight. It turned out to be their one and only fight. They had a long and very happy marriage until he passed away when my Mom, their granddaughter, was a little girl. My great-grandfather loved his family to bits, was an excellent husband, excellent father, and fab grandfather. Same can be said about my great-grandmother. Theirs was a love story for the ages, and they loved each other until their dying days.
@MissJ970 Жыл бұрын
My dad (born in 1932) told me about this and it was NOT ok back then. He was completely disgusted.
@LawyerCalhoun1 Жыл бұрын
I have a female cousin who was married at 14, and by 18 was a widow with three small kids and a fourth on the way. I think that was a far worse story.
@FactsVerse Жыл бұрын
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@SpringerA1984 Жыл бұрын
Neither are good stories.
@autumn585211 ай бұрын
It’s not a competition.
@fatonyalmitchell328111 ай бұрын
DAMM
@matildecottone11 ай бұрын
Here in Sicily it was common in rural areas to marry very young, because teenagers had no freedom at all, and the Church allowed marriage from age 14, but I personally met a woman who got married at 12 . When I was 14 in 1983 I was groomed by a man 11 years older, there is no way you can possibly choose wisely at that age. That is an age for puppy love, not for adult life
@michaelterry1000 Жыл бұрын
At 2:34 "Against her better instincts ...". She was 13 years old, she is not supposed to be the responsible rational one here.
@shelleyclements16204 ай бұрын
I'm thinking this Little Girl saw him in the Family Bathtub.... Wonder if Jerry ever complained about the Price of Kotex when she started her Menstruation???
@ramonalisa8546 Жыл бұрын
13 is too young
@FactsVerse Жыл бұрын
So true even today 😄😄
@martyzielinski1442 Жыл бұрын
Ya think?
@erinreese3849 Жыл бұрын
And a cousin on top of being 13
@robertl.6919 Жыл бұрын
You do know that in the USA, in 25 states it is legal to marry a girl of any age, even a 10 yo, if you have the parental consent ? Sick country.
@_west33... Жыл бұрын
He's a sicko!!!
@krisbest6405 Жыл бұрын
Few teens are aware of real life. I,m struggling at 70.
@azilbean11 ай бұрын
The fact that he FORGED her signature on their marriage certificate, AGAINST her will.... while he was still married...is all you need to know. 😡😞
@lovesings2usАй бұрын
Yeh - I agree - and the fact he's had all these years to think about it and still hasn't gotten humble and apologized from his heart. That's so sick!
@nemo227 Жыл бұрын
When I was a patient in our local hospital in 1954 I had a nurse who married young. I think she said she was 15 and had been married about 15 years. Sometimes it works out very well and sometimes people who marry in their thirties don't stay married for even a year. We are all different. I was 27 when I got married in 1966. My wife was 25. Now, we're in our eighties, still married, and we would do it all again. ----Added Feb. 16, 2024. I'm sad to announce that my wife of 57 years died January 29,2024.She was only 83 (I'm 85). We were hoping for another 57 years together. We are mere mortals, temporary residents on this planet.
@marynoonan6111 Жыл бұрын
It’s not the long living part of the marriage FGS - it’s the inappropriate age gap. These relationships are now illegal; for good reason. It’s abuse
@nemo227 Жыл бұрын
@@marynoonan6111 I don't advocate such early marriages. I've known people who were too immature for marriage at age 21.
@SkyBlue-vn9im Жыл бұрын
Almost all women who were married in their teens to an old man are telling us that it was a horrific traumatic event that never should have happened.
@nemo227 Жыл бұрын
@@SkyBlue-vn9im It's very sad to deny a person, boy or girl, their childhood.
@fatonyalmitchell328111 ай бұрын
Sorry 😐 for your loss, thanks for sharing ❤ Sound like a magical story
@PIA-tj5hc Жыл бұрын
He was already married how was it legally binding
@kokoro3711 ай бұрын
Typical grooming. Even decades later the victims still defend the pedophiles. They are repeatedly told they are mature for their age (bull sh*t they are not mature she is 13 years old). The victims feel immense guilt for "ruining" their lives. They don't comprehend that none of this would have happened without the choices the adults made
@moorek1967 Жыл бұрын
Reading through the comments, it seems the ones agreeing it was ok are those whose grandparents were young when they married. It might have been common but doesn't make it right. My dad's family of aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents were all from the south and my mom's maternal side was so I do kind of know southern things. However, the only one married younger than 20, was my great-grandmother in 1905. She was 16. Jerry Lee didn't marry her for necessity or to start a family, he already had two wives before Myra and had a bunch more after, so it is plain that he did it for his own lust and that makes him a pervert child rapist. Sorry, but no matter how one looks at it, she was too young and even back then people thought it was wrong, otherwise it would not have been a scandal. It was a scandal and he was blacklisted because people then did not agree it was ok because it was common or right. And as far as being common, only within the lower socio-economic groups was it accepted. This is a fact. I don't think the commenters realize that. The truth is, most girls married young for economic reasons, either it brought a young strong male into the family that could do heavy manual labor or he could provide for her taking the burden from her family. Myra was not wealthy but she was also not poor.
@homelesshannah50 Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@YeshuaKingMessiah10 ай бұрын
My gma was 15, my gdaddy 17. Married till my gdaddy died at 78. 10 kids. Was NOT pg at the wedding. She didn’t let her kids go this route as she regretted not graduating. They all got masters degrees. 13&15 are alot of difference and her husband was only 2 yrs older and my gma didn’t regret a single baby but she wanted more for her kids as my gdaddy was legally blind and had few avenues of income earning. THAT was very hard.
@KFontLab10 ай бұрын
Well Stated!
@ccrgrl Жыл бұрын
In the Bible belt during those days, 13-15 was marrying age if you were poor, my mom was 3 months shy of 15 when she wed, had her first child at 16. I was the 2nd marriage only child when she was 40, I found this incomprehensible as a young woman, still do.
@Crusherwoman Жыл бұрын
The most shocking thing is that her parents let her get married at 13! What is wrong with her parents?
@erldagerl982610 ай бұрын
They probably figured if he had already “deflowered” her, she’d be an old maid.
@JoshWoltz-b3m10 ай бұрын
Friend to Jerry: "Would you marry your 13-year-old cousin?" Jerry to friend: "Oh, I don't know...what's she look like?"
@ameliecarre478310 ай бұрын
He was a great pianist. And that's all for the positive I could find to say about him.
@terridalessandro341211 ай бұрын
i'm 77 and I do remember this incident - everyone was so appauled and i was a teen i thought it was pretty bad
@paulan721811 ай бұрын
That’s interesting, considering getting married at that age was not illegal then and it’s still not illegal in half the country now so apparently people weren’t as appalled as they claimed to be or else may be laws would have changed
@Seiferboi Жыл бұрын
My grandparents got married when she was 15 and he was 23. They both passed last year and had stayed married all those years. Cultural norms were different back then.
@moorek1967 Жыл бұрын
If it was a cultural norm, then why was it a scandal? Because it was not an accepted cultural norm. I am assuming your grandfather most likely was not married twice before with those wives still living.
@SkyBlue-vn9im Жыл бұрын
No even back then, people thought your grandfather was a pedophile, because he was.
@Brutus-co9dt Жыл бұрын
Exactly, it was wrong then and it’s wrong now. If it was a “norm” it wouldn’t have been a scandal. It wasn’t a norm.
@backtoasimplelife Жыл бұрын
There were laws in place, and he broke the law by forging her dad's signature on a marriage license....while he was still married to someone else. Was that the cultural norm too?
@homelesshannah50 Жыл бұрын
FOH!! Don't make your PERVERT grandpa try to sound "normal" it's wrong now and it was just as wrong then. Miss me trying to play PROTECT THE WHITE BOY
@johngoodman154011 ай бұрын
Enjoyed the video, knew some of the stuff but this gives me a much better understanding. Just one point that caught my attention: how was his second marriage legal if he was still married to his first wife when the second marriage happened?
@cindyleastorch194 Жыл бұрын
To all who have relatives or friends who married at 15 or 16 and were happy...13 is way different than 15 or 16 (not that 15 or 16 is good to be married).
@fatonyalmitchell328111 ай бұрын
Agree
@MaryObi-v5d Жыл бұрын
I think they truly loved each other... if only he could have been man enough to pursue her when she was older rather than prey on her naive childish mind. He took away her choices. Thankfully, she remarried happily, but he ruined his life on purpose.
@moorek1967 Жыл бұрын
No, he did not love her. He was a sexual predator. He was married twice before and a bunch of times after.
@_west33... Жыл бұрын
He's disgusting 😒
@_west33... Жыл бұрын
This goes on, but people think it's cool, because of the fame. Nasty.
@MaryObi-v5d Жыл бұрын
@SW-dq1nd I can't disagree and I wasn't suggesting otherwise. They did develop to truly love each other.
@samleembardo620211 ай бұрын
If he waited to pursue her when she was older then people would've still called it "grooming" lol
@marymotherofgod4861 Жыл бұрын
Omg I was still playing with Barbies at 13 that’s insane 😮
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@vanessahenry7238 Жыл бұрын
Apparently it wasn't all that shocking because a TEENAGE (14yrs old) Priscilla was allowed to write and date Elvis before moving in with him at 17 - The South apparently see's this as nothing wrong! Not surprising that even now Tennessee recognizes teen marriage with grown men as well. So What was shocking to others isn't so much there!
@thecook896411 ай бұрын
Doesn't make it right
@myralewis176910 ай бұрын
Southern women just grow up sooner . Myra
@kellylorang6845 Жыл бұрын
How was it a legal marriage when he was still legally married to his 1st wife?🤔
@paulan721811 ай бұрын
well, if you knew the full story, he married his first wife, never divorced her, married his second wife, then divorced his first wife, so in his mind, he was never actually married to his second wife, because it was not illegal marriage due to the fact that he was already marriedit’s asinine thinking but that’s what happens when you try to get the thoughts of a man who thinks it’s OK to marry his 13-year-old cousin
@bf6159 Жыл бұрын
Incestuous child molestation seems to be the most fitting term. Just because the Perp and Victim make it work, doesn't make it OK in any capacity. WTF is wrong with people? The age thing is unacceptable. That said, even if she were of age, they're Cousins. Thats animal behavior, beast not human. Society need to quit excusing folks with talent. He was a very talented muscian and recording artist, who was also a verified incestuous child molester. Sadly, not all that uncommon within the Entertainment Industry.
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@myralewis176910 ай бұрын
That is a really bad thing to say about another human being, your judgement is extremely harsh and unkind, he is my x husband but I still defend him. Myra Lewis
@shari5982 Жыл бұрын
My grandmother was 15 when she married my 21yo grandfather in 1908. (They weren’t cousins, though.) She later wrote, “I never regretted it, not even once.” It was definitely her choice, though. No inappropriate behavior on his part.
@johnpearce371411 ай бұрын
@@SW-dq1nd ,However ,it didn't ruin Myra's life & she stated that she'd do it all again !! She loved him.
@shirleyelliott3360 Жыл бұрын
I had a pretty bad childhood. But never would I even think about getting married😢
@williampowell2722 Жыл бұрын
Elvis keep his thing for young girls under wraps and controlled it way better.
@ameliecarre478310 ай бұрын
Oh really ? You mean he groomed longer before marrying ?
@williampowell272210 ай бұрын
@@ameliecarre4783 things back then weren't as exposed as they are today. people back then as they do today have obsession and fetishes but kept it quieter
@ameliecarre478310 ай бұрын
@@williampowell2722Ok so by "controlled it better" you meant in terms of PR and publicity ? Not actual control as in not giving to it ?
@williampowell272210 ай бұрын
@@ameliecarre4783 yes, people today are the same as they were back then
@ameliecarre478310 ай бұрын
Except nowadays people are not shamed for their "tastes and fetishes", whereas molesting children is prosecuted as a crime, and we know better how to differentiate the two.
@tesselaynes5428 Жыл бұрын
He would never be able to take Elvis place in any way.
@FactsVerse Жыл бұрын
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@dhoward5757 Жыл бұрын
Both had a thing for young teenage girls.
@SkyBlue-vn9im Жыл бұрын
What is wrong with you?
@plynn136 Жыл бұрын
How do you know?
@jane3069 Жыл бұрын
My grand ma married my grand pa back in the 1920s when she was 13 and he was 21. They were born in the back hills of Tennesse. They had 9 children. They both died in their 70s. Life wasn't easy for them. They were poor. But they seemed happy enough. They were very loving parents and grand parents.
@sophiamac9100 Жыл бұрын
I bet your grandpa wasn't already married, though... And your grandma (and her parents) had also probably consented...
@jane3069 Жыл бұрын
@@sophiamac9100 a number of people in her day where she was from got married that young. I got married at 18. A number of my friends got married at that age. I think on it today and think it was way too young.
@sophiamac9100 Жыл бұрын
@@jane3069 I agree. I'm just saying that this case has the particular characteristics of deception and coercion as well.
@jane3069 Жыл бұрын
@@sophiamac9100 I don't know, maybe. That happened over a 100 years ago. I'm now in my 70s. Wow, the years went so quickly. Things change over time. Oh, I just reread what you said. Yes, Jerry's case was different then my grand parents.
@sophiamac9100 Жыл бұрын
@jane3069 I mean the Jerry Lee Lewis case, not your grandparents. 😉
@E-Liza-sg3ty Жыл бұрын
How grown-up can a 13 year old be? what a creep! He was probably unable to have a relationship with a real grown-up.
@louise8544 Жыл бұрын
When Jerry Lee Lewis and Myra married, I was eleven. My parents and grandparents were appalled, both by Myra's age and the fact that they were cousins. My family told me this marriage was sinful, and told me that I was no longer allowed to listen to his music. (I did anyway). I felt sorry for Myra and Jerry Lee then, and I still do. It's sad that they didn't just wait a few years so that they didn't have to go through all that criticism and disapproval back then. They would have had easier lives with the love and kindness that most newlyweds experience from family, friends, and acquaintances. I gather from this video that she didn't feel she was abused by Jerry Lee Lewis, and if that's true then I'm glad that was the case.
@rvegas81 Жыл бұрын
That was very lntersresting! Thank you! I wondered what the fallout was during that time.
@johnharris3362 Жыл бұрын
Your parents probably thought president Roosevelt was pretty bad also for being married to his cousin Eleanor.
@themaggattack Жыл бұрын
She divorced him because he was abusing her! That is a fact and it's stated clearly in this video. She still loved him, but that doesn't mean he wasn't abusive.
@sarahcameron1241 Жыл бұрын
If they had waited she would have matured to a grown woman and known her own mind. It is called GROOMING. I mean to feel sorry for a pedo?
@myralewis176910 ай бұрын
Finally someone that understood my delima. I loved him and I guess I wouldn't change it if I could do it all over again. I have memories that no one can ever take away from me and some were GOOD! I'll aways regretted that it hurt his career but he never blamed me, he just said I would do it all over again. It was simply true love!
@mikecianelli9144 Жыл бұрын
she has aged well!
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@KerriLynnBulger3 ай бұрын
Don't forget - it was common for girls 13-16 yrs old to marry in the Southern states. Common & accepted. I'm not condoning it but that fact has been ignored. What I find most shocking is that Myra had to be the 'responsible' person while Jerry Lee beat her, drank, gambled & chased women
@yovamccoy2806 Жыл бұрын
It was good to hear the rest of the story.
@madebylora11 ай бұрын
Aside from all the obvious issues around her age, how is it that their marriage was “legally binding” if he was still married to his first wife?
@chrisdevene915810 ай бұрын
He got demonized so badly yet Elvis got away with the same creepy thing
@deadendyouthx311 ай бұрын
“Child bride” is a grotesque way of saying that he married his barely “teenage” cousin
@_west33... Жыл бұрын
Those people are sickening
@mo-sy9ws Жыл бұрын
Could've waited for her to grow up. If true love, it would still be there when she's 18 or better 21.
@tanahaines1043 Жыл бұрын
The most shocking thing to me is that anyone thought this cat could unseat Elvis! Nope! 😂
@michaelmckenna6464 Жыл бұрын
Looking back, such an idea would be absurd. But back then, both Elvis and Jerry Lee were newcomers. Both were from the South and both got their start with Sun Records. Both had an outrageous stage presence. But Elvis never toured outside the United States. But Jerry Lee did. Had Jerry Lee not gotten married to Myra, his British tour would’ve boasted his popularity. Elvis’ popularity would’ve dropped until he too decided to tour England. So Jerry Lee would’ve taken a lead over Elvis (even if it was only by a hair).
@naturalwitch1359 Жыл бұрын
Although they did both perv out on very young girls
@k27925 Жыл бұрын
You know that Elvis never wrote a song in his life right? Not adept at playing an instrument? Also a pretty shameless plagiarist.
@michaelmckenna6464 Жыл бұрын
@@k27925 Elvis Presley DID write one song in the mid 1960s. It wasn’t really that good but it wasn’t that bad, either. It got covered by an Italian artist who changed the lyrics from English to Italian and had a hit on Italy’s Hit Parade with it.
@johnpearce3714 Жыл бұрын
@@michaelmckenna6464, over here in the uk. The saying was Rock ' n ' Roll's the thing & Jerry Lee 's the KING !! ---- Rocking Jerry Lee Lewis kept to his Pure ,Raw Rock ' n 'Roll ,Country ' n ' Blues roots .---- *Elvis once said that Jerry Lee Lewis was a Genius & that he wished that he could Play the Piano Just like Jerry Lee. & If he could have then he would retire !! ---- * Sam Phillips stated that Jerry Lee was the most talented artist on his record label. -----
@PhillyGirl-pt3vq Жыл бұрын
Why would you want to marry your 13 year old cousin? There’s something really weird about that.
@HettiedeKorteDiplomaat Жыл бұрын
What Jerry wanted, Jerry got, it sounds like. Imaging giving birth at fourteen.
@paulan721811 ай бұрын
What world do you live in apparently not the real world because 14-year-old give birth all the time in the real world. Sad but true.
@dianeleone1634 Жыл бұрын
Maybe in the 1800s when life expectancy was early 50's, but sheesh 13,A child!!!
@deborahwhit118 Жыл бұрын
Still legal in some states
@davidb2206 Жыл бұрын
Life expectancy in the year 1800 was 35 in the United States (and far lower in Africa and the third world).
@crystalrusmisel183211 ай бұрын
At 13 I was transitioning from dolls to hair and makeup/clothes. Wasn’t thinking about men.
@sondragramse1770 Жыл бұрын
Jerry Lee Lewis seems like a horrible person!
@SometimesMyself Жыл бұрын
Please don’t call the victim of a pedophile “notorious”. I mean, you go on to describe the grooming, but still call her “mature”.
@VivaToddVegas10 ай бұрын
"No one could've predicted" that the public would not accept statutory rape?
@lilshaz8378 Жыл бұрын
I figured out the age difference of my grandparents at my grandfather's funeral. Grandma was sort of a mail order bride from Japan. Grandpa was working the RR in the US. My Pops just smiled upon my realization 😅
@sammieg8641 Жыл бұрын
Marrying your cousin and add on that she was 13… yeah he is a pedo and family is disgusting for not pressing charges
@janet8418 Жыл бұрын
They were both very immature at their ages when married. The parents should have had it annulled but I think Myra would have ran away.
@moorek1967 Жыл бұрын
Did you know that Jerry Lee asked one of his girlfriends to pose as Myra when he got that the marriage license? It's in her book. They went to Mississippi because it was illegal in Tennessee.
@janet8418 Жыл бұрын
@@moorek1967 imo, the parents should have had the marriages annulled.
@terrijamison9154 Жыл бұрын
Had a great aunt whose mother lied about her age . 12 yo great aunt married a 23 yo man. Today that is unthinkable. There marriage lasted though.
@michaelmitchell5098 Жыл бұрын
The scandal! How did Elvis get away with it when Jerry didn’t?
@karenhill6012 Жыл бұрын
He married Priscilla when she was 22. Priscilla didn't move in with him at 14. She visited Elvis, dated other guys in Germany,..she was 18 when she moved in and months later graduated high school.
@Goats_ Жыл бұрын
Elvis had a better P.R. rep.
@margaretwallace1578 Жыл бұрын
Elvis had people to cover up for him. When he wanted to marry Ann Margaret he couldn’t because if the truth came out he would have been ruined as well. Pricilla’s father would probably have got ahold of him as well. Elvis was dead before anyone knew for sure.
@michaelmitchell5098 Жыл бұрын
@@karenhill6012 thanks for the info. Unfortunately there exists in the media misinformation that states Priscilla moved into the mansion at age 14. It dates all the way back to 1977/78 and when a lie is allowed to exist unchallenged in some minds it becomes fact.
@michaelmitchell5098 Жыл бұрын
@@Goats_ and also had the support of some very influential disc jockeys in America including Dick Clark.
@cathyl5888 Жыл бұрын
This “child bride” was (at the time) 13 YEARS OLD,she’s his 13 year old FIRST COUSIN! 🤮 that’s BEYOND disgusting! And he shoulda been sent to jail for incestuous pedophilia!
@FactsVerse Жыл бұрын
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@myralewis176910 ай бұрын
No, I was his 2nd cousin and we had never met before. It's easy to condem when you haven't walked the road they traveled, Myra Lewis
@DV-ol7vt11 ай бұрын
I had some older neighbors that married when she was 13 and he was 18 and they are in their 80s and still married to each other.
@maureencora1 Жыл бұрын
13 is Sick He Couldn't Wait 5 More Years For a Ripe 18 yrs old? The Ole Saying is Half Your Age Plus 7 or in His Case at 22 She Should Had Been 18.
@davidb2206 Жыл бұрын
18 is an arbitrary, imaginary number and a recent invention. Thomas Edison's FATHER married his 17-year old housekeeper. Edgar Allen Poe married his 13-year old cousin. The famous artist Gauguin impregnated two 13-year olds. Same story for 300,000 years of sapiens.
@joycejackson9315 Жыл бұрын
It was not unusual for young girls to marry that young 70 years ago in Rural areas of the country. That's why Jerry could forge her daddy's signature. She could have legally married him at 15 during that time. Without parents consent in Tennessee. Massachusetts you can marry at 12 years old with parents consent today. And kansas you can still marry without parents consent at 15.
@JCcreates92711 ай бұрын
Doesn't mean it's right or good for the girls married off at young ages. Rape is rape whether legal or not. People that think it's alright because the law says so are wrong and as sick as those that marry these young girls. Instead of saying it's ok because the law is written that way people need to stand up and change those archaic laws.
@louk6196 Жыл бұрын
Their marriage was never legal. He was already married (and should have gone to jail for bigamy), she didn’t have her parents permission and he forged her signature. What a piece of 💩.
@crystalcollins8452 Жыл бұрын
My great-grandmother, born in 1870, married at 13 so she could care for her younger siblings when they were orphaned.
@momof1576 Жыл бұрын
That was a different time and it was for a very good reason.
@wendybenton9762 Жыл бұрын
That's called survival and totally justified for the times.
@GayJayU26 Жыл бұрын
By the time I was thirteen, I had virtually done every household task and looked after baby brother. Mother was bipolar and I was often in charge. Even at that age marriage might have seemed an escape although it could never have happened. I finally had parental permission at 18.
@FactsVerse Жыл бұрын
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@alfx543210 ай бұрын
Young women today who are 21 are not ready to get married.
@FactsVerse10 ай бұрын
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@alfx543210 ай бұрын
@@FactsVerse I think this content was interesting, I like reading the comments people suer like to judge. I think subjects like this. you know age differences
@2008alberta Жыл бұрын
what was most shocking about this video i was expecting to hear from myra herself as to the truth about her marriage, not some narrated crap from a male.
@myralewis176910 ай бұрын
I have tried many times to explain this away but I guess you had to be there to truly understand and my parents were horrified but what could they do ??, Putting him in jail would not have undone this and I could have NEVER gone back to school that was against the law then... two lives and one career wrecked wasn't the answer either . They were horrified at the time, but there was NO solutionbut to pray it worked out okay and it DID for 13 years. Myra
@2008alberta10 ай бұрын
@@myralewis1769 myra, first, thanks for your truly unexpected reply, i was not even thinking you would reply and here you did, thanks again. 2nd, i feel honoured that you even took time to reply, 3rd, it was a different time. it still happens today but is kept very quiet. I truly wish you the best.
@2008alberta10 ай бұрын
@@myralewis1769 my mom was 14 when she gave birth to me in april, 1963 i'll be 61 soon. i never knew her, was 2 weeks shy of meeting after looking for her but she died. my dad who was in his 20's i believe was never charged or late teens, not sure ... so i can relate ...
@stillhere1425 Жыл бұрын
I feel we are so self-righteous today, as if our modern American moral standards should apply to everyone everywhere from the beginning of all time. Yet for most of human history and prehistory, as soon as a young person was capable of reproduction, they were considered marriageable. I’m not saying all girls should marry older men at 13! Just, if Myra was willing to commit to marriage, and did not regret the outcome of her years with Jerry Lee, we should let her live her truth.
@davidb2206 Жыл бұрын
True. People today don't realize or comprehend that the majority of humans (sapiens) who have EVER lived were born to a teenage mother. They had to be. Humans did not live that long.
@justmejo9008 Жыл бұрын
He was condemned back then! So, obviously it’s not just modern moral values and standards that apply now. They applied back then also.
@davidb2206 Жыл бұрын
@@justmejo9008 Only by the self-righteous hypocrites. Edgar Allen Poe wasn't, not long before. Gauguin wasn't. How about Brigham Young's many young wives?
@justmejo9008 Жыл бұрын
@@davidb2206 ok David.. hope you never have daughters 🙄
@davidb220611 ай бұрын
@@archerandthemouse That's too bad, because nature and biology disagree with you, as the record of sapiens shows.
@dancemaniac386811 ай бұрын
He was a predator and deserved all the backlash he received.
@davidb2206 Жыл бұрын
Both grandmothers married at 16 and remained married for life. Loving Christian family people, with noble lives. Mother was 15 and also remained together with only one husband.
@felixthecat2786 Жыл бұрын
Dude....she was 13. Please don't give me that crap. There's a difference between being 16 and 13. Come on. No one can be that delusional
@davidb2206 Жыл бұрын
@@felixthecat2786 Dude, Edgar Allen Poe. Gauguin. Dude, study the history of sapiens and get your head out of "all I know is today." This has been going on for at least 300,000 years. The prophet Mohamed.
@davidb2206 Жыл бұрын
@@SW-dq1nd That's a regression, just what the marxists wanted for you. The result is more broken families, more drug use, more suicides, more abortions, twenty thousand whites r (ap) ed by blacks EVERY year -- that didn't happen in 1933.
@davidb2206 Жыл бұрын
@@SW-dq1nd Yeah, you have "come so far" that you are dying like never before.
@davidb2206 Жыл бұрын
@@felixthecat2786 Did you ever listen to the Beach Boys? 'She was 15 when she started dating Brian, who was 21.'
@lorrilewis2178 Жыл бұрын
He was insane. His abuse of women was off the charts. Go read about it.
@linda10989 Жыл бұрын
And didn't he marry many times?
@lorrilewis2178 Жыл бұрын
@@linda10989 I can't remember how many, but you can search online for details. He was a monster.
@jasonwright808 Жыл бұрын
That, friends, is called grooming a child. Lewis should have been jailed.
@SheCat196410 ай бұрын
He should have gone to jail. Why did her parents not do something?
@mariannewarner9252 Жыл бұрын
It's a no no to marry your second cousin
@davidb2206 Жыл бұрын
President FDR married his FIRST cousin. They had several children.
@gingercollier7949 Жыл бұрын
This was a long time ago and considered scandalous and in some states against the law because they were first cousins one removed. In our country marrying at 18 years old was the norm, but in rural areas in our country marrying as young as 13 wasn’t unusual. Most of this type of scandalous behavior wasn’t talked about. I don’t remember but I’d bet Jerry Lee Lewis grew up in a farm town or more rural area.
@gloriaf6971 Жыл бұрын
Only celebrities can get away with that kind of criminal behavior. Any other man would have been thrown in prison.
@sharonholt3118 Жыл бұрын
Why do you post a picture of Holt (black guy) news anchor on your channel of each story when. It has nothing to do with him? Misleading!
@sinsearjones6081 Жыл бұрын
This has creeped me out since i watched great balls of fire the movie 13 is sick 🤬🤬
@GeorgePenton-np9rh8 ай бұрын
13 is considered the normal age for marriage in many countries, at least for women. Juliet was only 13 when she married Romeo, and the holy priest Friar Laurence didn't object.
@georginanicholson3795 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting. A different take for sure. Still not comfortable with their difference in age & power balance.
@yvonnes7599 Жыл бұрын
She might have been "smart" but "mature", doubt it.
@brendamoon2660 Жыл бұрын
The scandal in the US was the bigamy. Thd age was common at that time. Jerry divorced his first wife and remarried Myra later but he could never live down the bigamy.
@kimberlydavis4772 Жыл бұрын
Thirteen is too young, but it was different times. My grandma got married at 15 and had a baby at 16z she and my grandpa were married for 76 years!
@alfx543210 ай бұрын
So who are we to judge
@biancacastafiore38311 ай бұрын
How can it be legal to marry a 13 year old? America is a very medieval country in some aspects.
@elijahjames8837 Жыл бұрын
Too young!
@FactsVerse Жыл бұрын
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@magicalfluffybunny11 ай бұрын
Michigan finally made it illegal to get married under 18, regardless of parental consent. Used to be 16.
@007trudig Жыл бұрын
I remember. I was in England. I think they barred him from entry. But the Pakistanis had multiple wives and 10 years old!
@FactsVerse Жыл бұрын
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@judypylant1570 Жыл бұрын
That does not make it right!….
@mpol701 Жыл бұрын
That was in Pakistan not in England
@moorek1967 Жыл бұрын
@@mpol701 Muhammad Hijab, the most well-known muslim in England, said 5 years old was a good age for a girl to be married. Openly, publicly in public. Not something behind the scenes. Publicly. Do you say it never happens in Europe? I am sure you must not have seen the scams of these men in England and Sweden where they have multiple wives and islam says women are to have their own houses, so each of their wives gets their own house and with her own children gets welfare and Mr. Pakistani (or wherever he is from) gets the money from her.
@nevillepitout1374 Жыл бұрын
What about Elvis. Priscilla was 14 when they met. They loved each other.
@SkyBlue-vn9im Жыл бұрын
Your sick
@thecook896411 ай бұрын
Doesn't make it right
@angiesmith7785 Жыл бұрын
He should have gone to jail for child abuse and being a petifile
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@carmencrawshaw728611 ай бұрын
In the past, it wasn't unusual for teenagers to marry. My uncle married his lifelong wife, when he was 19 and she was 16, with a baby already, which he adopted. He passed away last year, still married to her. That was in 1965. And if you watched the movie "Coal Miners Daughter", Loretta Lyn was married at 14 to Oliver (Doolittle) Lyn. They had 6 children. Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning underage marriage. Or that those people in Arab countries have those horrific customs.
@FactsVerse11 ай бұрын
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@skv197611 ай бұрын
This is horrible. Not only was she a child, she was his cousin 🤬
@kimberlyhall930310 ай бұрын
Are we ignoring the fact that married his cousin??????
@carriebizz11 ай бұрын
I don't understand how he wasn't arrested and his career even took off after raping his cousin