VERY SAD & SHOCKING NEWS: We celebrated Loretta Lynn as the tough-as-nails “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” but behind that iconic strength was a private heartbreak that would have broken most people. It’s a devastating truth that the country queen, who sang so powerfully of heartache, was haunted by the worst sorrow a mother can endure not once, but twice. She first had to bury her beloved son, Jack Benny, after a tragic accident took him far too soon in 1984. Then, decades later, that unimaginable pain returned when she lost her eldest daughter, Betty Sue, in 2013. Friends say she carried that immense grief in silence, pouring it into her music, meaning every trembling note of sorrow we ever heard from her came from a wound that truly never healed.
About the Song Tragedy: Loretta Lynn’s Heartbreak of Losing Two Children Loretta Lynn, the cherished “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and one…