06/11/2026
HE CALLED HER "MY INSANITY." SHE CALLED HIM THE LOVE OF HER LIFE. Tanya Tucker was 22 when she fell for Glen Campbell. He was 44.
They fought, they made up, they fought again. Drugs, alcohol, tabloid headlines everywhere. They were even engaged for a little while in 1981.
But here's the part that stays with me — he took her to Europe, and they kissed under the Eiffel Tower. Glen told her if you kiss someone there, you get to come back 20 years later with the same person. They never went back. After about 14 months, it all fell apart.
Glen later called the whole thing "my insanity" in his autobiography. But Tanya? Decades later, she still says the same thing: he was the one. "I was very young," she once said, "and I knew how to push the buttons." Some love just hits you before you're ready for it.