Country music legend George Strait experienced a devastating loss as his career took off in the late ’80s. And despite the risks, Strait decided the only way he could get through was to stop talking. He said it “just kind of turned out” to be the way he did it, and it wasn’t intentional, but he quit giving interviews after a tragedy that caused him to “shut down.”

George Strait gave interviews until his daughter died

Impressively, Strait and his wife, Norma, eloped in Mexico in 1971 and have been together ever since. They welcomed their first child, their daughter Jenifer, in 1972. Her little brother, George Jr., followed in 1981.