Kathy Cash Amazon.com comment
I’ve received dozens of emails from those of you who appreciated Kathy Cash’s comments on Amazon’s review section (in response to one ugly post - that has since been removed, by the way). I will be sure to pass along your thoughts and comments to her, and I know she will appreciate them! I am just as proud of her, as you are. She has always been unwavering in her support of her mother, and doing the right thing. Kathy’s comment:
Kathleen Cash-Tittle (Tennessee) - See all my reviewsOkay, I realize you may think I’m prejudiced, but I WAS THERE and also lived this story. Let me just say (here you are again) If you can’t say something nice, why say something at all?? The purpose is to critic the BOOK not my Mother!!You weren’t there.Even Dad (JOHNNY CASH) and June made it public in one of their last interviews that this story IS TRUE…they admitted to it.This is my MOTHERS story…like it or not, she tells the truth and I applaud her for her courage.Not only did she completely keep her story to herself for almost FORTY years, I was there when Dad gave her the go ahead, and HE asked her to not leave anything out. Her intention was NOT to slam June…it was simply to tell the truth.It happened, take all 3 of my parents off the pedistal and remember they were human beings. Dad lived because he wanted to. God is what got him through the worst times.My parents were married 13 years and had 4 children together. It wasn’t exactly a one night
stand! They were together from 1950 to 1966!! Get over it. I expected some people to have a negative reaction, but you seem to make a science out of it.
By the way, THREE of our 4 parents are gone. Please remember, your words are hurtful for the ones here left behind that grieve for them daily. VERY HURTFUL. If you want to critic the BOOK, that’s one thing, just don’t critic my Mother who you didn’t know at all. She was an amazing and very loving woman that had her heart broken, and loved a MAN for over 50 years!
A MAN…MY DAD…not Johnny Cash your hero. He was a HUMAN BEING, Okay? ~Kathy Cash
September 13th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Ann, I too am proud of Kathy’s support for getting her Mom’s book published. The support and encouragement given to you and Dick in completing Vivian’s dream is a testament to the love, understanding, and respect she had for her mother. It breaks my heart that Vivian is not here to share in the success of the book. Guess it was not God’s intent for us to see how she would handle all the attention. She is greatly missed. I honor and admire you and Dick for getting it published.
Much love Cynthia B
September 14th, 2007 at 5:46 am
I think it was a very good book. I really think Johnny had a lot of love for Vivian. I cried reading the book. I have been though some of what Vivian went though. It’s not fun to walk in those shoes either. Drinking and drugs can RIP a family apart. I got lucky and my husband went into rehab 7 years ago. I fell in love with him again. I think Johnny got in so deep he couldn’t find his way out. Vivian went though alot, and I think she went though more than has been told. Their babies also went though alot of pain. I didn’t know much about Vivian until I read this book. I loved Johnny & June, I still love them, BUT now I love Vivian too. She is Johnny’s 1st love, a wonderful woman, wife and Mother. I wish I had known her. Thank you Vivian for telling your story. Thank you Ann for getting the book out for us to read and learn more about Johnny Cash before the drugs.
Love and peace to their babies and family.
God Bless you all,
Karen Lee
September 16th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
I read your book and found it beautiful and revealing. This family has always shared so much of their lives with us, the fans. I appreciate their openness. But I hate to see Kathy hurt. Please take care of her through this.
September 19th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
It is so good that Vivian told her side of a story that is painful to tell. I am sure they all had their moments of truth and needed things to go down historically accurate. Healing forgiveness are all big things we all need. There are many sides to a story and this was Vivian’s. Respect it
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:41 am
I read the book. Beautiful love story of first love. I’m glad Vivian finally got to love the second time around. Sometimes the second love is he best love.
October 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Kathy-I enjoyed the opportunity to read your Mother’s book. I also grew up in a family with addiction and infidelity issues. I am so happy she had the courage to tell her story before her diagnosis of lung cancer especially in light of her character’s negative portrayal in the biopic. I respect her for speaking out. Take care.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
I am wondering if Johnny was a man of will how could he be afraid of June? Johnny could have just grown up and fallen out of love with Vivian. His life was different when he met Vivian. He was young,was from a small town and just not exposed to the real world. Vivian was the first girl outside of Dyess he met. She was a sweet girl and pure (mostly going along with his christian upbringing). I am sure the thought he was in love, and being a writer and composer he had strong emotions and those are what we see in the letters.I am not saying he did not love Vivian, but he was IN LOVE with June.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Ann,
I am so glad that Vivian got a chance to tell her side of the story. I was curious about Johnny’s first wife. I know everyone loves Johnny and June, but does anyone for one minute stop and think about the woman that was literally pushed aside and forgotten about by the public? This book makes me love Vivian for her courage and dedication to her girls and that fact that she took this assault on her life by June Carter with grace and dignity. This is a woman who deserves to be brought out and praised for her accomplishments. She loved him first and she had four of Johnny’s children and she dedicated her life to raising them when he was out being a superstar and creating his own love story with June. People, this woman is yesterday’s and today’s version of what women should be.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I think Vivian cash was just plain ugly. On the inside, she was even more unattractive; no wonder she hated June, since June epitomized all the things Vivian was not, including the absolute love of Johnny Cash’s life. “It ain’t you, Vivian!” Maybe Vivian should have tried to attain, herself, all of the things she wanted out of life, rather than try to make a man give it to her, since that never works–and didn’t work for her. After all, didn’t she find that out the hard way, anyhow? Just because you bear a man’s children and take his name, doesn’t give you a claim to fame–and you can’t put it on your resume, either, ladies!! For any of you who actually think like that pug-nose troll, get a life; or better yet, get a job, and not one raising babies since plenty of women do both: Try having kids and a job, big shot stay at home mom’s!!
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Divorace never really settles bad situations. The hurt it creates really never goes away in the heart of those involved. From my observation, it has the greatest devastating effect on the children involved. For everyone involved, I am sadden and so sorry the divorce happened, I read Vivian’s book and there are things I do not appreciate about it. What was the purpose of printing a mulitude of the love letters she received from Johnny? What truth is she trying to tell? It seems a few would have been plenty to show that Johnny loved her. I know Johnny may have given her permission at her request, but I still felt a trust was betrayed. I wouldn’t want my wife publishing my love letters to her, especially they ones that were intimate or somewhat intimate. Being a nobody, I do not need to worry about it. Vivan’s portral of June also doesn’t set well. I have read three books on Johnny C. Two by him and another by someone else. Each of them say that in 1956, two years after he married Vivian, Johnny went over to June and told her they would be married someday. Vivan paints June as a rude, cunning, homebreaker type of woman. I do not think it is completely true. I do not think Vivan wanted to accepted the fact that Johnny, early in their marriage, was unhappy and that their divorce wasn’t all June’s fault. Vivan also had fault in the divorce. What was she doing that had Johnny unhappy? Rosanne Cash said at June funeral “June never sulked, was never rude…never used coarse language…had tremendous dignity and grace…was so kind, so charming, and so funny.” About June’s step-children, Rosanne said “June eliminated the confusion by banning the words step-child and step-mother from her vocabulary and from ours.” “June always said I have seven children.” This isn’t the June protrayed in Vivan’s book. I have been around a lot of older people and those who have been rude, hateful, greedy, connivers, etc. don’t come to the end of their lives and have step-children speak well of them as Rosanne did nor have husbands that love them as dearly as Johnny did nor have children that loved them as much as John Carter did. From an outsider’s view based only on the book, if I were Vivan’s second husband, I would have felt second rate when it came to her love. This may not have been the intention, but nevertheless, it was an overlooked in the writing of the book. Vivan saying that June took drugs and supplied them to Johnny is hard to believe. June never looked like a druggie and how could she have helped Johnny with his drug addiction? I am not saying that June never took drugs or never supplied Johnny with them. For Vivian to make this statement, it would only have been right to tell the cirumstances of these times. Just look at how bad Johnny looked when he was on drugs and how bad he looked at the end of his life due to his drug addiction. Those who believe Vivan on this subject are calling Johnny a liar for he gave credit to June for help with his drug addiction. The part that really upset me in Vivian’s book is where she said June never wrote “Ring of Fire” and that it was Johnny who wrote it about a woman’s private part. Saying what the song was about went too far. Even if it were true it didn’t need to be mentioned. Research shows that June and Merle Kilgore wrote it. So Merle is telling a lie too?? Also, why did Anita Carter first sing this song and claimed that it was written by June? It was never a hit for Anita, so Johnny changed some parts and it became a hit for him. Sorry to say this, but the book comes across to me as someone who is hurt and wants to get even. I did not know Vivian, but the book is not giving a good impression. She wrote the book, made it public, so public reaction is justified.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Ditto to all that is said by D.Pinney. Vivian’s girls have a right to love and believe their mother but at the end of the day Johnny and Vivian were simply pen pals who married and marriage to Vivian was not the fairy tale Johnny imagined it would be.
I do believe he loved June deeply. Other than Vivian, who didn’t? The one I feel sorry for is Dick knowing that Vivian was supposedly still so in love with Johnny while married to Dick. Some women never learn.
January 7th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
D. Pinney and P. Taylor, you have no right to say such horrible things. You were not there when all of this happened. And Johnny did tell her to not leave anything out, so obviously he had some pride in those letters, and what happened. Even through the rough times they were still friends, and Dick and Vivian visited John and June many times.
Dick obviously had nothing against Johnny or June and it was Vivian’s choice to let all of this out, under the PERMISSION OF JOHNNY CASH.
If you didn’t like it then what is the point of coming here and slamming the author AND Johnny’s family?? Don’t you have a life to live?
Nobody is perfect, and Johnny told that to the greatest extent. You AREN’T either, so who are you to JUDGE??
January 7th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Ann,
I thank you for publishing the masterpeice “I Walked the Line” I, as a lifelong CASH/CARTER fan, I believe that Vivian let it all out with great pride and dignity, and not many people are strong-willed enough to do that.
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