[2] On December 12, 1957, at the age of 13, Myra Brown married Jerry Lee Lewis, then 22, in Hernando, Mississippi.
[3][2] When Lewis arrived in London for a 37-date tour in May 1958, Brown revealed to a reporter at the airport that she was his wife.
[4] By the time they returned to Memphis, it had been discovered that Brown was not only Lewis' wife, she was also his first cousin once removed.
[5] The scandal over their marriage was a significant set back to Lewis' promising rock and roll career,[8] though his 1986 naming to the first group of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members recognized Lewis' early influence on the genre.
[12] Shortly after her divorce, Brown married Pete Malito,[13] the detective she had hired to trail Lewis and document his infidelities,[14] and moved to Atlanta, Georgia.
[13] Brown hired writer Murray Silver to co-write a book that was meant to be her autobiography, but after a publisher's editing it became Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis.
It was adapted into the 1989 film Great Balls of Fire!, starring Dennis Quaid as Lewis and Winona Ryder as Brown.
[13] The producers did not want Brown or Lewis involved with the film, but she visited the Memphis set anyway.