In Three of usGeorgette describes her father as “anything but” the drunken, partying disruptor he’s often depicted. Instead, she writes, “George Jones drinks to mingle with partygoers, not because it comes spontaneously. course.” She thinks he started abusing it when he first played at the club and that’s the kind of crowd he fell into. “It was almost a defense mechanism,” she said. writes, “a weapon against his introverted nature.”
Wynette may have been the tougher one, but “in a nutshell,” Georgette wrote, “my mom never believed in stardom and my dad never liked it.” Jones “admits that he was shocked that people took him so seriously,” his daughter recalls, and that if Wynette “heard that a movie star or a president was a fan, that always surprises her.”
Wynette is also plagued by health issues that lead to her own substance abuse troubles. According to biographer McDonough, she had a hysterectomy after giving birth to Georgette in 1970, after which she developed an infection that caused a buildup of scar tissue and chronic gallbladder problems that left her in constant pain. pain. She eventually became addicted to painkillers, then switched to Demerol injections when the drugs wore off, and she started taking Valium while on tour.
