Finding Love The Fourth Time
Annie D’Angelo was living a private and simple life before she met and shared her life journey with Willie Nelson. She was a professional makeup artist, but little did she know that’s how she will meet the country legend.
In the 1980s, D’Angelo worked in the makeup department for several movies, and this includes the 1986 western drama film Stagecoach, which starred Nelson as Doc Holiday. After their very first encounter, they started sharing a good bond as great friends, but their relationship naturally developed into a romantic one.
Later on, they started dating one another, and without delay, the happy couple, Willie Nelson and Annie D’Angelo tied the knot on September 16, 1991, in Nashville at the St. Alouin Church. Nelson was still married to Connie Koepke when he first met D’Angelo; hence the singer described her as the “great love affair in my life.”
For Nelson, finding love again after three failed relationships helped him to steer his fourth marriage to a relatively more successful path. The couple was blessed with their first child, Lukas Autry Nelson, when he came into the world on December 25, 1988. The couple was again blessed with their second child, Jacob Micah Nelson, when he was born on May 24, 1990.
Nelson has admitted that his marriage with Annie D’Angelo is, by no means, perfect. Just like any couple, they also went through some ups and downs. “I’m not easy to live with. I’m pretty temperamental, you know. “Nelson told Parade, especially that he has been used to doing things on his own for quite some time and he’s not interested in any suggestions.
Nelson also recalled how there has always been friction with his previous wives. But D’Angelo and Nelson got along together. “It takes a special person to live with me,” Nelson said.
To Nelson, his marriage works because, “well, I now understand a lot more than I did.”
Nelson later admitted, “It’s love that brought Annie and me together, and it’s love that, nearly thirty years later, has kept us together. When it comes to romantic relationships, that’s a record for me.” Indeed, it took the country singer “a damn near a lifetime to get it right.”