'I hoped a car would run over me': Willie Nelson was 'slowly self-destructing'
Willie Nelson tried to take his own life "a couple of times". The 90-year-old singer recalled how he was "drinking more than ever" amid marital problems with his first wife, Martha Jewel Matthews, and financial woes and when he hit rock bottom, he even tried to get a car to run him over. Speaking on his new docuseries 'Willie Nelson and Family', he said: “She and I were fighting worse than ever, and I started drinking more than ever. "I would get drunk every night and go home with someone different every night. [I was] slowly self-destructing. I really didn’t care. “Back in my drinking days, I...