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At 90, country music icon Willie Nelson Look back on his life, including his four marriages, in the new paramount + docuseries Willie Nelson & Family . The star thinks about both his career and his personal life in the show, telling stories enough to be breathtaking about his past. On the one hand, while Nelson easily admits to having business, it is the way in which his second wife discovered her cheating with the woman who would become his third wife who is shocking.

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Nelson was married four times. First, he got married Martha Matthews In 1952, when he was 19 years old. They welcomed three children together: Lana ,, Susie , And Billy Nelson . Their tumultuous relationship (Nelson tells a story in The Docuseries on her stab him with a fork) ended in 1962, and he quickly married a musician Shirley Collie , with whom he had collaborated on the song "Voluntarily".

During their marriage, Collie discovered that Nelson had an affair when she saw the Hospital bill for the birth of Nelson de Nelson in 1969, Paula Nelson , with Connie Koepke , which was registered on the invoice under the name of Ms. Connie Nelson.

"Shirley wanted to know who Connie Nelson was," Nelson said in the documents , according to People . "The truth is that Connie [Koepke] has been my girlfriend for several years before becoming pregnant." Koepke said in the documentary that "the most distant thing from my mind was to get pregnant and tell my mother and my father".

Collie and Nelson divorced in 1971, and he married Koepke the same year. In Willie Nelson & Family , Koepke said she started helping Nelson's children, whom he had with Matthews. "Anyway, it happened," she continued. "Honestly, I was the next one, and I don't mean that in the wrong direction, it's just that Shirley was not their mother, she was gone. I got it so much with these children. adored these children. They all became my children too. " AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Paula said the situation was "difficult" for her first three children, but that they are "all close" today. She added: "It was dad. He gathered us like a large tribe."

Nelson and Koepke then welcomed another child together, Amy Nelson . The couple divorced in 1988 and three years later, Nelson married his current wife, Annie d'Angelo . They had two children together, Lukas And Micah Nelson . The singer "on the road again" later discovered that he had an eighth child, Renee Butt , who was born in 1953 from a friend of his name Mary Haney . According to People ,, He did not discover That he generated a child with Haney until 2012. He also learned that through the butts, he had a granddaughter and a great-granddaughter.

Nelson also talked about his connection with Koepke in his co-memoir in 2020 with sister Bobbie Nelson ,, Me and sister Bobbie: True tales of the family band.

"Shirley saw an invoice from a Houston hospital. I tried to play like no matter. I told him that I had to go to the hospital for something minor," he wrote in the book ( via People ). "Shirley did not buy this for a simple reason: the bill said that the accusations were for the birth of a little girl, Paula Carlene, born of a Mme Connie Nelson." He continued that Collie wanted to know who the woman was. "Could not lie," he continued. "Was caught flat. I had to get the words out of my mouth." Connie is my girlfriend and Paula is our daughter. ""

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