The press asked who she was, and they were startled by her reply: “I'm Myra… Jerry's wife.” Just before the tour, Lewis (then 22) had secretly married his 13-year-old first cousin, Myra Gale Brown. When Jerry Lee Lewis first arrived at Heathrow Airport in May 1958, reporters were surprised to note that the “Great Balls of Fire” vocalist had a young girl at his side.