I watched "My Darling Vivian" and it was a mind blower, that kept me thinking WHO KNEW?!! I recommend that everyone watch this documentary. After watching this documentry I just could not get Vivian off my mind because she was done so dirty. I had the DVD "Walk the Line" and after watching My Darling Vivian, I knew I could not watch Walk the Line anymore, so I threw it away. I give praise Roseanne Cash and her three sisters for doing this documentry. These women did their mother right! RIP Vivian, you were a good woman.
I've watched the film twice. Vivian is amazing. Life is messy, but we can prevail in the midst of the messiness warts and all. She (and Johnny) illustrate that beautifully.
A fantastic documentary about an incredible and beautiful woman. I will say it boggles my mind after reading her book and the letters, how Johnny Cash could treat this woman so badly. His letters seemed from the heart.❤
My darling Vivian ♥ 💖 Such a great documentary & love story. Johnny Cash broke her heart &spirit and she was his first wife and the mother of his 4 daughters.
JCC wanted all the credit where JC was concerned, she even talked in interviews as though her and JC had all these kids, never giving Vivian any respect. Vivian was way more Classy than the nutty JCC.. J/S.
Great interview. I will be watching this this weekend. Looking forward to hearing this beautiful woman's story. God bless everyone that created this as well as the family. 🙏🏽
Thank you. It feels like this extremely courageous woman has been vindicated. People get divorced, it’s not about that but the treatment of Vivian was not right. God remembers. Thank you.
That was such a nice story about my dear Vivian what a way to honor someone and that her truth or the truth about their marriage was able to come out. Thank you for that. It was lovely.
Just watched this movie and it was incredible, I’m so happy to see her legacy come to life as a strong Italian mother and grandmother with true morals , but as we know Hollywood is so fake and this was blatant in the show , how dare June take credit for those kids , , hope more people get to watch this movie about an incredible strong women … my mother lived a similar life and was in the background, but was the matriarch of our family and staid that way until her death in 2014 , and the love my parents had for all us kids , but she was the strongest of them both .
It was a different time in the 1950’s where a wonan was to marry young, obey her husband & completey forsake her needs for the good of her family. At 19 though, how do you have discernment as to whether the young man you are considering to marry fits in to the vision you have for your life? Vivian sounds like a wonderful blessing to her daughters, but it seems somewhat a cautionary tale. Wait til you’re grown up & make some sort of path to experience the world like a learning a marketabke skill so that you practice making choices for yourself. Vivian deserved so much better. She deserved respect. She deserved to have a say in decisions that effected her. I’m so glad you made this documentary to set the record straight.
First off Vivian is beautiful. I always wondered what she looked like. And yes although Johnny and June had a beautiful love story my heart goes out to Vivian so bad always dead always will. After hearing some about this I hope Johnny Cash stood up for Vivian when her family had problems because of her darker skin. Secondly I don’t Boces gentleman related in someway other than the filmmakers Edit… Oops I guess I should’ve watched first lol thank you so much sir for getting that part of the information out no one else has made that clear
I thought the I walk the Line song was for June. He wanted to be successful by walking the line to make June and him have a way to be together. That's what I got out of the film too. They really should have made Vivian more a part of that film than they did.
Walk The Line, made me feel for Vivian, Johnny Cash was the pursuer of career & the other woman June, although he was a great singer/performer he was a selfish man...
When I saw the documentary the title, I thought I was getting ready to look at a black woman I was so surprised it was Johnny Cash‘s first wife. I don’t see how that they didn’t see their mother was black or Johnny Cash and see his wife was black the lips the hair is no way she don’t even look Italian or German she look black. I was so glad to hear that they went and got their roots done but I still don’t believe it’s just a black grandmother. I think her dad is black and her mother just didn’t tell her this they say that a mother was an alcoholic and be drunk in the daytime and she could have gone with a black man because Vivian is clearly black. It was a beautiful documentary to the mother I’m glad everything is out in the open now, I love love love the documentary and I’m I’m glad that Sean has some respect because John was a husband stealer and that was wrong high. He didn’t leave his girls some varieties like he left his son wrong wrong wrong.
@@suzannerobbins6293 Bullshit. June was complicit and wound up an addict also. this was her what, fourth marriage? June was a conniving bitch, and Johnny was a man. period.
@@lillianbradley2206 Johnny married her and stayed married....case closed! He loved her, and it showed when they were together! His heart was broken when June died, and he followed her very soon. They had a beautiful love story! What on earth does June being married before have anything to do with anything!? When she and Johnny got together that marriage did last! June helped him get clean...that saved him!
June took credit for a lot of things such as being the mother to vivian girls. June had three different kids by three different men. She was not the saint they make her out to be. June broke up johnny marriage. It's very sad what johnny and June did to vivian. It had nothing to do with love. You don't treat people that way when you love them period.
@@ceceliapickering7447 You can’t steal a man! John wasn’t happy at some point…not saying he didn’t love his first wife for awhile. June having kids doesn’t make her bad! It is sad when marriages don’t last….John finally was happy and loved June to the end. That marriage did last even with their problems.
Great interview. If I may, as someone who also has to share my kids with their father’s lover ; to Justin : Stop calling her “ grandma June” ! You are perpetuating the neutralization of Vivian as the real MOTHER of Cash’s daughters. June was your grandfather’s wife, she may have been wonderful to you BUT she was NOT your grandmother. Find another adjetive for June, give your grandmother this respect.
I agree. I don't like Johnny Cash or June Carter after this. They could have been worse, always, but what was done to Vivian was so awful. Johnny Cash was such a di*k.
Yes “Sicilian” does indicate Italy friends, not Africa. What a wonderful way to dignify this dignified lady and if any of us had such a team of historical and emotional excavators we would be so blessed. Love it.
@@Mncrr Sicilians are not mixed race. The small amount of African ancestry that Vivian had was actually on her non-Sicilian side through her mother, Irene Robinson, many many generations back. Go back that far we’re all related, which is a beautiful thing.😊
The best thing I can say, I took away from this was an error of women like my grandparents, or my great grandparents that had dignity a time when people didn’t play themselves as victims she was no victim she persevered I would say she would say herself maybe it is what it is but she has such class and dignity about the whole thing I’ll be it. I don’t know that into workings of their marriage and why it didn’t work and I don’t have any judgment against Johnny Cash at all I justknow that I would hope to be the type of person with dignity in class as Vivian was
People don't want to face True facts about race she has black features & her hair looks black who was her father or mother one of them were black or part black & why would that be so wrong most Italians are half black the way you spoke about it "she was pure white" prove it I think she was beautiful whether she was black or white
@@peacehappyb237 thank you. Someone that is not enforcing the one drop is rare in this discussion. There was just an interesting paper published with a lot of research. It’s doubtful that she was even 1/32 if that’s even real. Her third great grandmother was also mixed.
She has a very unique and complex narrative. She’s not biracial. She’s a Sicilian American and European American with very remote distant black ancestry. Stop One dropping
Well she was mixed raced and she was part black and I think she really does look black. Rosanne Cash was just on Henry Louis Gates show and it came out in her DNA, her great great grandmother was a Slave. But it is horrible what happened to her, she didn't know she was part black. It had been covered up.
@@daisypom1 . No. Vivian second great grandmother Born 134 years before her was almost white. And then that woman’s descendants on Vivian’s line married white. If you’re going to get into white supremacy standards that’s one 1/64 by the time Vivian rolled around. Vivian Liberto cash was a Sicilian woman. She was a white person. Most importantly that’s how she saw her self and that matters more than your opinions. It’s disrespectful to rewrite somebody’s narrative. You see it as an insult against blackness because people don’t believe in the one drop but that’s called sensible.
@@consolajohnson5830 Are you Sicilian or Italian? Everyone has some sub Saharan African DNA. Culturally and racially Sicilians are European. Vivian’s Sicilian grandparents were very European. Vivian was Sicilian American/ white. That’s legally, culturally, morphologically and by self definition. She had *one* multi racial ancestor out of 32 fully European third great grandparents.
You can clearly see she was a Black women and had black ancestry DNA don't lie and her maternal ancestry was black period . Her mother was passing her father knew it himself. Tell the truth they are related to Angela Bassett she's their 4th cousin and that's pretty close actually. His mother's mitochondrial DNA is AFRICAN .
Vivian looked black because she had black DNA she is kin to Angela Bassett. It showed up in her daughter Rosanne Cash DNA. Somebody in the past was passing as white but the aafrican American showed up in Vivian.
The above statement is true. Roseanne Cash did Finding Your Roots. She did DNA test, black ancestry on her father's side, and mother. Maybe you should do your research.@Rjensen2
It is very obvious that Vivian Cash was or appear to be a black woman. I know that it was not excepted in thoses days of his marriage to her. But neither is it quite accepting even in 2021. It really is so very Sad. Because no one is a pure breed. No matter how much one may think they are. People need to be able to fall in love with what ever race they choose..... It should not be based on what another thinks about it.❤️🙏✌️👍🤗
Vivienne was a light skin black woman, very brave for a white man to marry a black woman during the times when in some states it was illegal for inter racial marriage, yes the marriage never worked out due to pressure of racist society and also Johnny being on the road, not to mention his infidelity and drug abuse, glad she decided she was better than to hold onto a man with those issues and handed baton to June Carter, glad both Johnny and Vivian’s moved on, Vivian’s was vivacious and stunning woman, I could see why he fell for her😍
The grand son looks black to me... i am surprised they where able to stay married for so long (Vivian and Johnny) because even if she was sicillian she still never looked white..
Just watched my darling Vivian. Vivian remarried before Johnny cash and June Carter. She should of moved on with her new husband. Burned her old letters from Johnny cash. He didn't love her anymore this went on before way before June Carter. Cindy was negative towards June. Yes it was hard I went through a divorce it is hard. Just let go move on.
Vivian saved all her letters! That’s what forms the bulk of her excellent memoir “I walked the line” and some of the photos are seen in the documentary as well. It’s one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen.
@@laurawilloughby4000 June was not having an affair with Johnny Cash!!! Johnny persuued June for year's, he first met June in1958 and said he was going to marry her! whilst still married to Vivian!! Although not divorced, they're marriage was over a long time ago. In the sense that Johnny was never around. June and Johnny got together 11 years later, he proposed to June on stage in 1968. Vivian never stopped loving Johnny but he had moved on and fell in love with June. Vivian should have done the same, when someone doesn't love you you have to let them go.
They was young. She was 19. That was here first love, they have their first daughter 9 months after marrying. You can’t just move on she never had time or closure. He was always gone or tour or traveling. She stayed in love while he was able to see the world and fall in love with June. She wanted the guy she fell in love with but unfortunately with drugs, the rockstar life, she and their daughters they was forgotten about.
I watched "My Darling Vivian" and it was a mind blower, that kept me thinking WHO KNEW?!! I recommend that everyone watch this documentary. After watching this documentry I just could not get Vivian off my mind because she was done so dirty. I had the DVD "Walk the Line" and after watching My Darling Vivian, I knew I could not watch Walk the Line anymore, so I threw it away. I give praise Roseanne Cash and her three sisters for doing this documentry. These women did their mother right! RIP Vivian, you were a good woman.
Is there a link to the movie
I watched Vivian's video twice. I am still grieved for all her pain. Can't quit thinking about her.
I started crying when it got to the part about the rattlesnakes, because I felt so bad for Vivian and her four children.
I've watched the film twice. Vivian is amazing. Life is messy, but we can prevail in the midst of the messiness warts and all. She (and Johnny) illustrate that beautifully.
A fantastic documentary about an incredible and beautiful woman. I will say it boggles my mind after reading her book and the letters, how Johnny Cash could treat this woman so badly. His letters seemed from the heart.❤
My darling Vivian ♥ 💖 Such a great documentary & love story. Johnny Cash broke her heart &spirit and she was his first wife and the mother of his 4 daughters.
JCC wanted all the credit where JC was concerned, she even talked in interviews as though her and JC had all these kids, never giving Vivian any respect. Vivian was way more Classy than the nutty JCC.. J/S.
Your grandmother Vivian was beautiful and a nice girl that's why Johnny Cash your grandfather fell so inlove.❤❤
Might I add these gentlemen are a very good team working together.
Great interview. I will be watching this this weekend. Looking forward to hearing this beautiful woman's story.
God bless everyone that created this as well as the family. 🙏🏽
Im a fan of Vivian 's.
Thank you. It feels like this extremely courageous woman has been vindicated. People get divorced, it’s not about that but the treatment of Vivian was not right. God remembers. Thank you.
That was such a nice story about my dear Vivian what a way to honor someone and that her truth or the truth about their marriage was able to come out. Thank you for that. It was lovely.
Just watched this movie and it was incredible, I’m so happy to see her legacy come to life as a strong Italian mother and grandmother with true morals , but as we know Hollywood is so fake and this was blatant in the show , how dare June take credit for those kids , , hope more people get to watch this movie about an incredible strong women … my mother lived a similar life and was in the background, but was the matriarch of our family and staid that way until her death in 2014 , and the love my parents had for all us kids , but she was the strongest of them both .
I love Vivian's story. Major feels.
Born '55 so I do remember that era. Trouble is we're still living it.
This movie had me bawling. Thank you for telling her story.
There's nothing romantic about Johnny and June Carter Cash's drug fueled adulterous affair. Nada
It is such a good documentary film. I've watched it multiple times 🙂. Thanks for this interesting double interview about the making of it.
Good to watch documentary about Johnny
Thank you for making this Doc. Vivian deserved SO much more. What an amazing beautiful woman and Mother she was. So glad I watched it.
Great job guys! Loved your film❤
It was a different time in the 1950’s where a wonan was to marry young, obey her husband & completey forsake her needs for the good of her family. At 19 though, how do you have discernment as to whether the young man you are considering to marry fits in to the vision you have for your life? Vivian sounds like a wonderful blessing to her daughters, but it seems somewhat a cautionary tale. Wait til you’re grown up & make some sort of path to experience the world like a learning a marketabke skill so that you practice making choices for yourself. Vivian deserved so much better. She deserved respect. She deserved to have a say in decisions that effected her. I’m so glad you made this documentary to set the record straight.
Don’t forget she was black and being harassed by racist KKK😏
That "affected" her !!
First off Vivian is beautiful. I always wondered what she looked like. And yes although Johnny and June had a beautiful love story my heart goes out to Vivian so bad always dead always will. After hearing some about this I hope Johnny Cash stood up for Vivian when her family had problems because of her darker skin. Secondly I don’t Boces gentleman related in someway other than the filmmakers
Edit… Oops I guess I should’ve watched first lol thank you so much sir for getting that part of the information out no one else has made that clear
Great documentary! Great video.
Thank you for giving us this amazing , warm and emotionally charged presentation.
I thought the I walk the Line song was for June. He wanted to be successful by walking the line to make June and him have a way to be together. That's what I got out of the film too. They really should have made Vivian more a part of that film than they did.
If they had presented reality Johnny would have faded into obscurity.
June wrote the song walk the line I thought
Walk The Line, made me feel for Vivian, Johnny Cash was the pursuer of career & the other woman June, although he was a great singer/performer he was a selfish man...
@@vida2515 June and, Kilmore wrote " Ring Of Fire " June gave it to Johnny to record! Johnny wrote and, recorded " Walk The Line ".
Johnny wrote "I Walk The Line" for his 'darling' Vivian in 1954...🎶
When I saw the documentary the title, I thought I was getting ready to look at a black woman I was so surprised it was Johnny Cash‘s first wife. I don’t see how that they didn’t see their mother was black or Johnny Cash and see his wife was black the lips the hair is no way she don’t even look Italian or German she look black. I was so glad to hear that they went and got their roots done but I still don’t believe it’s just a black grandmother. I think her dad is black and her mother just didn’t tell her this they say that a mother was an alcoholic and be drunk in the daytime and she could have gone with a black man because Vivian is clearly black. It was a beautiful documentary to the mother I’m glad everything is out in the open now, I love love love the documentary and I’m I’m glad that Sean has some respect because John was a husband stealer and that was wrong high. He didn’t leave his girls some varieties like he left his son wrong wrong wrong.
I think drugs played a large role in the destruction of the marriage....😪
June helped Johnny with his drug problem! Probably helped save his life!
@@suzannerobbins6293 Bullshit. June was complicit and wound up an addict also. this was her what, fourth marriage? June was a conniving bitch, and Johnny was a man. period.
@@lillianbradley2206 Johnny married her and stayed married....case closed! He loved her, and it showed when they were together! His heart was broken when June died, and he followed her very soon. They had a beautiful love story! What on earth does June being married before have anything to do with anything!? When she and Johnny got together that marriage did last! June helped him get clean...that saved him!
June took credit for a lot of things such as being the mother to vivian girls. June had three different kids by three different men. She was not the saint they make her out to be. June broke up johnny marriage. It's very sad what johnny and June did to vivian. It had nothing to do with love. You don't treat people that way when you love them period.
@@ceceliapickering7447 You can’t steal a man! John wasn’t happy at some point…not saying he didn’t love his first wife for awhile. June having kids doesn’t make her bad! It is sad when marriages don’t last….John finally was happy and loved June to the end. That marriage did last even with their problems.
Great interview.
If I may, as someone who also has to share my kids with their father’s lover ; to Justin : Stop calling her “ grandma June” ! You are perpetuating the neutralization of Vivian as the real MOTHER of Cash’s daughters. June was your grandfather’s wife, she may have been wonderful to you BUT she was NOT your grandmother. Find another adjetive for June, give your grandmother this respect.
treat the "thumbs up" of this comment as the out-of-pocket button.
Amen...
I agree. I don't like Johnny Cash or June Carter after this. They could have been worse, always, but what was done to Vivian was so awful. Johnny Cash was such a di*k.
My guess is that's how he grew up calling her. If so, it'd be awkward calling her something else.
Agreed. There's only one real grandma
Yes “Sicilian” does indicate Italy friends, not Africa. What a wonderful way to dignify this dignified lady and if any of us had such a team of historical and emotional excavators we would be so blessed. Love it.
Ignorant
You’re wrong. Sicily is a mixed race people. Arabs, Africans, Greeks, pretty much everyone who sailed the Mediterranean stopped and bred there.
@@Mncrr Sicilians are not mixed race. The small amount of African ancestry that Vivian had was actually on her non-Sicilian side through her mother, Irene Robinson, many many generations back. Go back that far we’re all related, which is a beautiful thing.😊
The best thing I can say, I took away from this was an error of women like my grandparents, or my great grandparents that had dignity a time when people didn’t play themselves as victims she was no victim she persevered I would say she would say herself maybe it is what it is but she has such class and dignity about the whole thing I’ll be it. I don’t know that into workings of their marriage and why it didn’t work and I don’t have any judgment against Johnny Cash at all I justknow that I would hope to be the type of person with dignity in class as Vivian was
Please stop those from claiming her as Black she is Italian like myself and I’m also tired of being asked if I’m another race other than my own!
I thought she was so pretty. She could probably sing better than June. I swear, every time I hear June sing, I cringe.
I agree June was not a great singer she was more of a performer or jokster on stage!
@@truly3743 she was too a good singer, y'all.lie!
Can you send me where I can watch this film the link thank you
Probably in the description
People don't want to face True facts about race she has black features & her hair looks black who was her father or mother one of them were black or part black & why would that be so wrong most Italians are half black the way you spoke about it "she was pure white" prove it I think she was beautiful whether she was black or white
Johnny seemed to have a great love for June, however....sigh.
When Roseanne Cash findingyour roots, she finds out that she had ancestors on her dad's side and her mother's side that were black.
Wow!!! I CAN JUST IMAGINE JOHNY REACTION TO HAVING A QUEER GRANDSON!!
Liberto does not sound African more Italian? Well Vivien was a beautiful soul💖
Vivian had one African ancestor she was 1/32 African but majority European. Johnny also had a black ancestor too.
Her African ancestor would be an American dummy so they wouldn’t have an African last name 😩
@@peacehappyb237 thank you. Someone that is not enforcing the one drop is rare in this discussion. There was just an interesting paper published with a lot of research. It’s doubtful that she was even 1/32 if that’s even real. Her third great grandmother was also mixed.
@@peacehappyb237 Johnny was part Indian!
African Americans do not have African last names
I want to know how these two guys are related to Johnny Cash?
... please: Listen the first 3 minutes....
Dustin on the left is his grandson and that’s his husband. So that’s Johnny Cash‘s grandson and Johnny Cash‘s grand son-in-law.
Vivian Cash was a biracial woman. No doubt....
She has a very unique and complex narrative. She’s not biracial. She’s a Sicilian American and European American with very remote distant black ancestry. Stop One dropping
Well she was mixed raced and she was part black and I think she really does look black. Rosanne Cash was just on Henry Louis Gates show and it came out in her DNA, her great great grandmother was a Slave. But it is horrible what happened to her, she didn't know she was part black. It had been covered up.
@@daisypom1 . No. Vivian second great grandmother Born 134 years before her was almost white. And then that woman’s descendants on Vivian’s line married white. If you’re going to get into white supremacy standards that’s one 1/64 by the time Vivian rolled around. Vivian Liberto cash was a Sicilian woman. She was a white person. Most importantly that’s how she saw her self and that matters more than your opinions. It’s disrespectful to rewrite somebody’s narrative. You see it as an insult against blackness because people don’t believe in the one drop but that’s called sensible.
@@superamanda Sicilians are part African it is documented PLEASE & SO
@@consolajohnson5830 Are you Sicilian or Italian? Everyone has some sub Saharan African DNA. Culturally and racially Sicilians are European. Vivian’s Sicilian grandparents were very European. Vivian was Sicilian American/ white. That’s legally, culturally, morphologically and by self definition. She had *one* multi racial ancestor out of 32 fully European third great grandparents.
You can clearly see she was a Black women and had black ancestry DNA don't lie and her maternal ancestry was black period . Her mother was passing her father knew it himself. Tell the truth they are related to Angela Bassett she's their 4th cousin and that's pretty close actually. His mother's mitochondrial DNA is AFRICAN .
Her mother wasn’t passing on 1/32 groid
A 4th cousin is in no way a close relative.
Vivian looked black because she had black DNA she is kin to Angela Bassett. It showed up in her daughter Rosanne Cash DNA. Somebody in the past was passing as white but the aafrican American showed up in Vivian.
You would be best served by learning the actual story.
The above statement is true. Roseanne Cash did Finding Your Roots. She did DNA test, black ancestry on her father's side, and mother. Maybe you should do your research.@Rjensen2
It is very obvious that Vivian Cash was or appear to be a black woman. I know that it was not excepted in thoses days of his marriage to her. But neither is it quite accepting even in 2021. It really is so very Sad. Because no one is a pure breed. No matter how much one may think they are. People need to be able to fall in love with what ever race they choose..... It should not be based on what another thinks about it.❤️🙏✌️👍🤗
Vivienne was a light skin black woman, very brave for a white man to marry a black woman during the times when in some states it was illegal for inter racial marriage, yes the marriage never worked out due to pressure of racist society and also Johnny being on the road, not to mention his infidelity and drug abuse, glad she decided she was better than to hold onto a man with those issues and handed baton to June Carter, glad both Johnny and Vivian’s moved on, Vivian’s was vivacious and stunning woman, I could see why he fell for her😍
George Zimmerman is Afro Peruvian. His grandparents were black.
The grand son looks black to me... i am surprised they where able to stay married for so long (Vivian and Johnny) because even if she was sicillian she still never looked white..
Just watched my darling Vivian. Vivian remarried before Johnny cash and June Carter. She should of moved on with her new husband. Burned her old letters from Johnny cash. He didn't love her anymore this went on before way before June Carter. Cindy was negative towards June. Yes it was hard I went through a divorce it is hard. Just let go move on.
I'd be negative too toward a woman who was having an affair with my father.
Vivian saved all her letters! That’s what forms the bulk of her excellent memoir “I walked the line” and some of the photos are seen in the documentary as well. It’s one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen.
@@laurawilloughby4000 June was not having an affair with Johnny Cash!!! Johnny persuued June for year's, he first met June in1958 and said he was going to marry her! whilst still married to Vivian!! Although not divorced, they're marriage was over a long time ago. In the sense that Johnny was never around. June and Johnny got together 11 years later, he proposed to June on stage in 1968. Vivian never stopped loving Johnny but he had moved on and fell in love with June. Vivian should have done the same, when someone doesn't love you you have to let them go.
They was young. She was 19. That was here first love, they have their first daughter 9 months after marrying. You can’t just move on she never had time or closure. He was always gone or tour or traveling. She stayed in love while he was able to see the world and fall in love with June. She wanted the guy she fell in love with but unfortunately with drugs, the rockstar life, she and their daughters they was forgotten about.
I find it hard to respect a man who abandons his family for a new woman,they did have an affair