Johnny Cash's 'Hurt': The Sad Song Inspired by Nine Inch Nails' Original Hit

HE WAS WASTING AWAY AT 35 — 155 POUNDS, BARELY EATING. SHE MOVED HER WHOLE FAMILY INTO HIS HOUSE AND FLUSHED EVERY PILL HE OWNED DOWN THE TOILET HERSELF. She was June Carter — daughter of country music royalty, raised on a Virginia front porch by Mother Maybelle.By 1967, Johnny Cash was the biggest male voice in country music and the closest one to falling apart. Pneumonia. Arrests. A wife who had finally divorced him. June saw the truth nobody else would say.She didn't lecture him. She didn't l