Loretta Lynn met Patsy Cline in the hospital thanks to their husbands
In Lynn’s memoir, Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust, she wrote about the origins of her friendship with Cline. And it started when Cline was involved in a deadly 1961 car accident that nearly took her life.
She was thrown into the windshield and suffered severe injuries. She had “a broken and dislocated hip, a bad cut on her right arm, and her face was cut up awful,” according to Lynn. Her condition “looked hopeless” to doctors.
Cline eventually began to improve and was hospitalized to recover. During that time, she heard Lynn perform her hit “Walkin’ After Midnight” on a radio show. According to Lynn, Cline sent her husband, Charlie Dick, to find her.
“Patsy wants to see you,” Dick told Lynn. “She wants me to bring you to the hospital.”
The “Fist City” singer was happy but also confused by the unexpected invitation, and said she almost “had a fit” over it. But she couldn’t go to Cline then because the day’s visiting hours were over. So, Lynn’s husband, Oliver, took her to the hospital the next day.
