Rosanne Cash On Growing Up Johnny Cash’s Daughter

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Rosanne Cash is opening up to “People” magazine about what it was like growing up with Johnny Cash as a dad.

“My childhood was chaotic, number one,” she shares. “I understood from a really young age that [my dad] was an artist and that his mind worked differently. And … that scared my mother.”

Rosanne, who is interviewed about her dad and her own music in Ken Burns’ documentary “Country Music,” debuting on PBS this weekend, also talked about Johnny’s relationship with wife June, and says she didn’t resent her at all, even though the relationship started when Johnny was still married to her mother Vivian.

“It seemed inevitable, though it was so painful for my mom,” she says. “I had two really good examples from women in my life. My mom gave me this powerful sense of discipline, family, mothering and detail orientation. And June gave me this sense of expansiveness and how to live life as a performer.” 

• As for any issues she had with her father, she says they were fixed when he asked her to join him on stage one night to sing “I Still Miss Someone.” “He worked out all his problems onstage, and that happened with me that night with him,” she says. “It just all got fixed.” 

Source: People