Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have been happily married since 1996. The two got engaged while Hill was serving as the opening act on his The Spontaneous Combustion Tour, which is when their romance also began. But for McGraw, he says it was definitely love at first sight when he saw Hill for the first time, even though it wasn't in person.
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"I remember the very first time I saw a picture of Faith. I fell in love instantly," McGraw reveals to Audacy. "I think she was on a Billboard magazine or something. I was walking through my management office, and I'd had like one or two singles out off of my first album. I hadn't really done much, and I was in the process of recording my second album. I walked by and saw the photo of her on it, and I'm like, 'Oh my God. I need to find that girl."
McGrawn not only found Hill, but also married her, and together became parents to three daughters, now grown. Although all of his girls have moved away from home, the house isn't completely empty.
"We got two new puppies at home, so we're pretty busy right now," McGraw explains. "We got Aussie Mountain Doodles. So they're cute as they can be, but they're a handful... She's busy handling them while I'm out doing some work."
Tim McGraw Says Faith Hill Saved His Life
McGraw doesn't know where he would be without Hill. The "Live Like You Were Dying" singer says it's Hill who saved his life, in more ways than one.
"I've been lucky. I've been very fortunate. First off, meeting my wife saved my life. I was a wild man," McGraw reveals on Tracy Lawrence's Road House podcast. "I was having fun. She turned my life around. I couldn't have found a better woman. Not only beautiful and talented, but just a good, good person. And then having our daughters, it's life-changing. They make you a better person, and they certainly calm the demons in you."
It was also Hill who helped him get sober in 2008, when his drinking was out of control.
"I remember a moment when I was getting out of bed and going to the liquor cabinet and taking a big shot at 8 in the morning and thinking, 'I have to wake the kids up,'" McGraw tells Esquire. "I went straight to my wife and said, 'This is where I'm at.' I was scared."
