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Played by Jessie Mueller in Patsy & Loretta (2019).

On May 4, 2017, she was hospitalized in Nashville after suffering a stroke.

Supported Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama (2013).

Came under fire in May 2012 when her birth certificate was unearthed by the media, revealing that Lynn has been lying about her age for decades. She was actually almost 16 at the time of her marriage, not 13 as she told the world. The discrepancy is significant because it completely alters the narrative Lynn has spun in books and public references. In reality, it would have been illegal for a girl under the age of 14 to marry in Kentucky.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Volume 155, pages 284-289. Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2007.

In 2006, she underwent shoulder surgery after injuring herself in a fall. There were complications during the procedure and she had to be revived by doctors. The operation was successfully completed later.

One of five recipients of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients were James Brown, Carol Burnett, Mike Nichols and Itzhak Perlman.

Supported George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential election.

Oldest son, Jack Benny Lynn, drowned while fording the Duck River at the family's ranch on July 22, 1984.

Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1982) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (1988).

During the making of Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), she said to have fainted when she saw Levon Helm in full makeup and wardrobe because of his amazing resemblance to her real father Ted Webb.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1515 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on January 11, 1978.

From 1977 through 1989, she was the popular spokesperson for Crisco Products from Procter and Gamble.

She and her younger sister Crystal Gayle are the only siblings to each make guest appearances on The Muppet Show (1976).

She was the first country music singer to appear on the cover of Newsweek magazine (1973).

She was the first woman to receive the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award (1972).