“God told me, ‘If you leave him, he’s going to die.’ And I said, ‘You know what — you’re too good of a man to let go to hell and I’m not gonna let you do it,'” she told The Tennessean.
With the drinking problem under control, the country singer and his wife had an incredible relationship until his death from hypoxic respiratory failure in 2013, following 30 years of marriage. In his autobiography I Lived To Tell It All, Jones explains in detail how his wife quite literally saved his life.
“No teenage boy ever fell harder for a girl than I fell for Nancy Sepulvado. When I met my future wife on a blind date in November 1981, I had no idea that someday she would save my life…They say love can change the world. I’m here to testify that it changed one man. Friends, family, doctors, therapists, and ministers had tried to save me, but to no avail. But finally, the power of love from one woman, Nancy Jones, made the difference.”
Watch Jones sing “I’m A One Woman Man” below and really take in how deep their love story was.