Vivian Liberto Distin, the first wife of Johnny Cash and the woman he pledged to remain faithful to in the song “I Walk the Line,” died Tuesday at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura. She was 71.

52 years after they met as teenagers at a roller rink, Vivian Liberto paid one last visit to her first husband, Johnny Cash. It was 2003. For decades, she had lived a private life, and once Cash ...

“It feels heartbreaking,” Rosanne Cash admitted through tears after finding out that an ancestor of her mother, Vivian Liberto Cash — the first wife of singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, who both received ...

American music has a story. Johnny Cash met June Carter, and it was a tumultuous love affair that turned into a life-long partnership. And somewhere vaguely in the background was his first wife, ...

The documentary “My Darling Vivian” aims to share a part of Johnny Cash’s biography long dwarfed by his relationship with second wife June Carter Cash — his relationship with his first wife, San ...

It isn’t so much the presence of country legend Johnny Cash that renders Matt Riddlehooper’s “My Darling Vivian” so affecting, it’s his absence. That’s the price of fame. Not for the superstar, but ...

"She is with me in powerful longing...," Cash wrote of her mother, who died on Cash's birthday in 2005 Paul Zimmerman/WireImage Roseanne Cash is remembering her mother. The Grammy winning country star ...

Rosanne Cash made a fascinating ancestral discovery on a 2021 episode of "Finding Your Roots," and in doing so, solved a long-held family mystery. The 68-year-old, who is the daughter of country ...

It isn’t so much the presence of country legend Johnny Cash that renders Matt Riddlehoover’s “My Darling Vivian” so affecting, it’s his absence. That’s the price of fame. Not for the superstar, but ...

"She is with me in powerful longing..." Cash wrote of her mother, who died on Cash's birthday in 2005 Paul Zimmerman/WireImage Rosanne Cash is remembering her mother. The Grammy-winning country singer ...