{"id":63546,"date":"2023-12-21T23:06:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T23:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/willie-nelson-reveals-the-way-his-ex-wife-found-out-about-his-affair\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T23:06:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T23:06:25","slug":"willie-nelson-reveals-the-way-his-ex-wife-found-out-about-his-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/willie-nelson-reveals-the-way-his-ex-wife-found-out-about-his-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson Reveals the Way His Ex-Wife Found Out About His Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/willie-nelson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willie Nelson <\/a><span>is not shying away from talking about some of the hardest moments of his life in his new Paramount+ show, <\/span><em><span>Willie Nelson &amp; Family<\/span><\/em><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the new four-part docuseries, Willie, 90, goes into detail while describing the exact moment when his second wife, Shirley Collie, found out he had been having an affair by finding a shocking piece of mail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The &#8220;Buddy&#8221; singer says Shirley had stumbled upon a hospital bill from Houston for the birth of a baby girl named Paula, born to his longtime girlfriend, Connie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Shirley wanted to know who in the hell was Connie Nelson,&#8221; the singer recalls in the series. &#8220;The truth is, Connie had been my girlfriend for several years before becoming pregnant.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Willie&#8217;s daughter, Lana Nelson &#8212; from his first marriage to Martha Matthews &#8212; chimed in to add that Shirley &#8220;had no idea there was a Connie&#8221; until that moment, telling the camera that she was &#8220;completely oblivious until she got the hospital bill.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shirley and Willie separated two years after Paula was born, finalizing their divorce in 1971. Willie quickly went on to wed Connie and the pair stayed married until 1988.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During his relationship with Connie, Willie started another affair with makeup artist Annie D&#8217;Angelo. Following his divorce in 1988 from Connie, he wed Annie in 1991 and the pair has been married ever since.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite having three ex-wives &#8212; two of whom are no longer living &#8212; and some remaining regrets, Willie says he believes everything (even the messiest bits) happens for a reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always said there\u2019s no such thing as a former wife,&#8221; the singer says. &#8220;Once in your life, a wife never leaves. I regret the pain I caused Connie, and Martha and Shirley before her. I have no excuses. I&#8217;d be hard-pressed to define love. I know God&#8217;s love is pure, but worldly love is flawed love, and lots of times confused love.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Willie Nelson &amp; Family<\/span><\/em><span> is now streaming on Paramount+.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/willie-nelson-reveals-the-shocking-way-his-ex-wife-found-out-about-his-longtime-affair-216887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Nelson is not shying away from talking about some of the hardest moments of his life in his new Paramount+ show, Willie Nelson &amp; Family.\u00a0 In the new four-part docuseries, Willie, 90, goes into detail while describing the exact moment when his second wife, Shirley Collie, found out he had been having an affair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[174,21,20,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-63546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment-tonight","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-willie-nelson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}