“I didn’t feel I was doing her any favours by going the distance when clearly her parents were not in harmony.” The couple have a daughter together, Casey. When we divorced I didn’t ask for anything from him.” It was just enough that I cried every day, and that’s not a good way to live. “He might feel that I was abusive to him. I was making an album every year or two and I think that’s what he wanted really more than anything, but the films just kept coming at him and he made the choice. She writes about Kristofferson’s emotional abuse and how he would belittle her talent. We were equal in our jobs and in our relationship,” she says firmly. “When Kris and I were doing concerts, he didn’t have hit records. I think I made it clear how much I care about this man, how much I’ve always loved him.”īut she did get the opportunity to correct critics who accused Coolidge of hitching herself to Kristofferson’s rising star. “My intention was never to vilify Kris in this book and I don’t believe that I did. “People were fascinated with us as a couple,” she says, but his drinking and infidelity proved too much to bear. In her memoir, Coolidge details her romantic relationships with musicians such as Leon Russell, drummer Jim Gordon, Graham Nash, and, of course, her “volatile” six-year marriage to Kristofferson. “I had not been in California two years when A&M Records approached me at the end of the Cocker tour to do my first album. And then, also, I’m very nervous because I am very frank and I don’t hold back.”Ĭoolidge details her time as a backing singer on classics such as Eric Clapton’s After Midnight and Stephen Still’s Love the One You’re With, and touring with Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison and Joe Cocker before embarking on a solo career. “I just cried and felt this great relief and release that it was done. But her marriage was in tatters and she had just miscarried her second child.Ĭoolidge’s new memoir opens with this time in her life and goes on to describe more than a decade of “blue jeans and limousines” when rock stars believed they were true “counterculturists”. The legendary Delta Lady of the song had won two Grammys for performances with her husband at the time, Kris Kristofferson, and had just recorded her sixth solo album. We ask for your continued support.In 1977, Rita Coolidge was 33 and one of the most in-demand rock vocalists in LA. Please watch over us warmly as husband and wife. We look forward to thinking and moving forward in our lives together! Finally, in everything, we will face them properly, and without forgetting these grateful feelings, we will do our best with love. We are comrades, each other's emotional support, and we will now become family. Also, we will endlessly face our work, and do our best to build a warm future with everyone."įinally, they said, " We haven't changed since we first met. They expressed, " While we are still immature, we hope to build a happy family while being grateful for our encounter and enjoying our lifestyle with richness in spirit everyday. We were able to welcome this day thanks to everyone who have cheered us on and taken care of us, as well as the many people who have supported us. At this time, Suda Masaki and Komatsu Nana would like to announce our marriage. In a joint announcement, the couple wrote, " To everyone. Suda Masaki (28) and Komatsu Nana (25) have announced their marriage!
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