The Reason
During an interview with Billboard, Hill and McGraw admitted that it wasn’t just their careers that bonded them so strongly. Turns out, that it was their background, their childhood that unified them. “Although our stories are very different, there was a missing link within our souls that we both related to,” said Hill. McGraw didn’t learn who his real father was until he was 11, it took years for them to have a real relationship. Whereas, Hill was adopted and grew up with a “gypsy” heart which didn’t fit in with her bank teller and factory worker parents. When the two began dating, they would talk for hours about how their relationship just would never work. Marriages between artists, Hill says dryly, “don’t have a good track record.” Nevertheless, they made it work, big time.
The Reason
The Adoption
Speaking of Hill’s adoption. She was born in Ridgeland, Mississippi and was adopted as an infant. Her new parents named her Audrey Faith Perry. With her new family, she was raised up 20 miles outside of Jackson Mississippi, in the small town of Star. Her adoptive parents, Edna and Ted Perry, raised Faith up with their two biological sons in a rather devout Christian environment.
The Adoption
