she told “Esquire” in 2007<\/a> that she was 13 when she married her husband Oliver Lynn. He was about six years older, and they stayed married until his death in 1996.<\/p>\n5. She had six kids and became a grandmother at 34. She had twins in 1964. Then two years later, her oldest daughter Betty Sue had Loretta’s first grandkid.<\/p>\n
6. A lot of people don’t know her younger sister is Crystal Gayle. Crystal is only 71, about 19 years younger than Loretta.<\/p>\n
7. She was good friends with Patsy Cline and claimed she used to see her ghost. She wrote about it in her 2020 book “Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust”. Patsy died tragically in a plane crash in 1963.<\/p>\n
8. She was also good friends with Sissy Spacek. They got close after Sissy played her in the 1980 film “Coal Miner’s Daughter”.<\/p>\n
9. Keith Urban jumped out of her cake<\/a> at her 87th birthday concert in 2019. When the show got announced, she joked that’s all she wanted, so he made it happen.<\/p>\n10. Several of Loretta’s songs got banned from the radio. The most famous was “The Pill” in 1975, because it was about contraception. But it still hit #5 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart, and #70 on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n