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Jamie Spears dealt with tragedy at a young age, after unexpectedly losing his mother when he was just 13 years old. In 1966, Jamie’s mom, Emma Jean Spears, died by suicide on her infant son’s grave. In 2021, Fay Gehringer, a friend of the Spears family and curator of the Kentwood Historic and Cultural Museum, told the New York Post, “That death had a big impact in that family. It took a big toll on Jamie.”
Just four years after the tragic loss, Jamie survived another tragedy: a devastating car accident that killed his friend and football teammate, William Easley. Per Vulture, Easley was behind the wheel driving Jamie and another pal named Joseph Lee around when he missed a curve, resulting in the car breaking in two after hitting the concrete railing of a bridge.
The future father of a pop star legend clearly had a troubled childhood, with his own dad, June Austin Spears, reportedly physically abusing him and his nine other children, which were a result of his three separate wives. “These Spears men are something awful,” said Jamie’s half-brother, John Marks Spears, to the New York Post. “They’ve gotten away with so much, especially to their women, for years.” John Mark went on to describe June Austin as “a monster,” but added, “Nobody would say a bad word about him outside the family. Just like no one will say a bad word about Jamie around here.”
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