Everyone knows about the late legend George Jones' problems with substance abuse, and how his amazing wife helped him get better. However, one lesser-known consequence was the multiple personalities that he developed.
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It turns out the singer had a Donald Duck-like character, DeDoodle, and a Walter Brennan-like character, called The Old Man, both living in his head.
Nancy Jones, his incredible wife who helped George Jones get sober, recently spoke to Cornerstone Television Network, where she went into detail about the other personalities that occupied his mind. She also explained the crazy and creative way she dispelled them from his psyche.
Although she credits her determination and willpower to her faith in Jesus, she doesn't give herself enough credit for how she handled the unusual hurdles she had to jump with him.
After a lengthy conversation, Nancy brought up his other personalities, and how everyone in Nashville knew about them.
"With George, you could calm him down talking about his mother," she began. "You could calm him down talking about Jesus, so I knew that Jesus was in there, I just had to bring him out."
"He was just a totally different person," she continued. "And there were so many demons in there, and in [her 2023 memoir], it's got about how, everybody in Nashville knows it, how he would go around and talk like an old man, talk like Donald Duck."
"And he was good at it, too. And so I had to get rid of those two people."
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Ken Abraham was also in the interview, and he added that George Jones would sometimes be fighting these other characters in heated arguments.
One such example happened when George and Nancy were driving down to Alabama. But that would be the last argument they had.
"So we were driving to Alabama, and he kept on talking and arguing with those people," she started. So I finally said, 'Just stop the car.'"
"He said, 'Why?' I said, 'I'm gonna get rid of 'em.' He said, 'How you gonna do it?' I said, 'I'll show you.'"
"So I opened the door, I pulled out the old man. I pulled out the duck. Guess what? The duck went back in. I said, 'Oh, wait a minute, I gotta get the duck,'" she continued.
After removing the duck a second time and slamming door, George Jones was finally free. "He said, 'Oh, thank you so much for getting rid of them. They were killing me.'"
"I mean, it's crazy, but that's how far gone he was."
From that moment, he "never, ever" spoke about them again. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. What a woman.
