Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline had a lot in common and bonded over ‘girl talk’ about their husbands
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Lynn shared that she hit it off with Cline right away. Though she was still trying to make a place for herself in country music, Cline was already an established star. But they still had much in common.
“We were the same age. We both grew up poor. Both of us had to grow up too fast,” Lynn wrote in her memoir. “Neither of us went to high school.”
According to Lynn, Oliver was the first boy she ever kissed, and she started having babies when she “wasn’t more than a girl” herself. She had four kids by the time she got to Nashville.
Meanwhile, Cline dropped out of school and went to work to help support her mother and siblings. She’d been singing professionally for more than a decade and was in her second marriage when she met Lynn. And she had two young children.
So, the two stars of the Grand Ole Opry had plenty to talk about the day they met. “[Of course] there was girl talk about our husbands, once Charlie and Doo left the room,” Lynn noted. “Those boys gave us plenty to talk about.
Before Lynn left the hospital, Cline invited her for dinner. And there was no way the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” was saying no.