What Happened To Johnny Cash's Children?

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

Kathleen "Kathy" Cash had probably the lowest public profile of her siblings, appearing in a few movies (per IMDb) but otherwise living a life of relative obscurity. In 2005, as Country Thang Daily notes, she complained that "Walk the Line" inaccurately portrayed her mother, Vivian, as a shrew. 

"My mom was basically a nonentity in the entire film except for the mad little psycho who hated his career," Kathy said to Today. "That's not true. She loved his career and was proud of him until he started taking drugs and stopped coming home." Reportedly, she walked out of a family-only screening of the movie five times.

A 2020 documentary called "My Darling Vivian" also takes a look at Cash's first wife and their 13-year marriage. Pulling from interviews with the former couple's daughters, old letters, and photographs, the film is an homage to a woman who "faded into negative obscurity" after Vivian and Johnny split, according to Rosanne Cash (via Rolling Stone.)

Vivian and Johnny's youngest daughter Tara also appears to have chosen a life of relative obscurity, although she contributed photographs to a book about her father, according to Country Thang Daily. She has also done some work in costuming, as a designer for the TV movie "Nashville Beat" and a wardrobe assistant in the movie "Tennessee Waltz," according to IMDb.

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