Morgan Freeman’s First Wife – Jeanette Adair Bradshaw Wiki (Bio, Age, Married, Net Worth)
Jeanette Adair Bradshaw was once in a romantic relationship with Morgan Freeman, who is a great Hollywood actor. This woman stood by him when nobody else trusted him. She is Morgan Freeman’s first wife. Morgan & Bradshaw fell in love with each other during their struggle days this is when they tied the knot and after their marriage, Morgan gained freedom.
Jeanette Adair Bradshaw: Life before Fame
Jeanette Adair Bradshaw is not a very famous personality though. Many know her as the ex-wife of actor Morgan Freeman. She came into the limelight when she got married to the famous actor, Morgan Freeman, not much about her life is known before she gained fame. Her personal information such as birth, parents, educational history, and career are not known.
Relationship and Doomed Marriage with Morgan Freeman
As you know Morgan Freeman is a single man now but he was romantically involved with many women. The famous actor has his career skyrocketed in the 1960s when he began his dancing career in the Opera musical group. He began his career from the scratch and he is now becoming one of the megastars in the Entertainment industry.
He has worked in movies like Bruce Almighty, Oblivion, Invictus, Red. It’s a long list of movies. However, the success was not in one go and he went through a lot of struggle. There is a famous proverb ” There’s always a woman, behind a successful man”. This is a perfect quote for Morgan.
While he was struggling in the entertainment industry, Morgan Freeman fell in love with a beautiful woman Jeanette Adair Bradshaw. Jeanette met Morgan when he only had his talent and a lot of ambitions. Jeanette was in her early 20’s She already had a child which was adopted by Morgan later.
No one knows when and how Morgan and Jeanette met each other for the first time. The only information available to the public is that they dated for five years before marrying each other and loving each other as husband and wife. The duo got married on October 22, 1967. Everything was working well in their marriage and they had created a benchmark for other married people in the Entertainment industry.
However, Morgan and Bradshaw became known and famous because of the divorce news. They had spent 12 years of married life together and the duo finally filed for divorce. No one ever knew the reason for the divorce. Many tabloids though claimed that Morgan had many romantic relationships and it was the main reason behind the divorce. They legally got divorced on November 19, 1979.
Jeanette’s Children
She has two biological and two adopted children. Morgan and Jeanette during their marriage had four kids. However, there is only one child who was named Morgana Freeman, the biological child of Morgan and Jeanette. She does not like making any public appearances but had been at the LA premiere of the movie “Oblivion” in 2013 with her father.
The oldest son of Morgan is Alfonso Rene Freeman who was born when his father had an affair with Loletha Polk-Adkins. He was born on September 13, 1959. He totally looked like the younger version of his celebrity dad. Not only the looks also the interest in acting is very similar. Alfonso acted in films such as The Shawshank Redemption, The Bucket List, Burn, and so on.
The third child of Morgan is Saifoulaye Freeman born in 1960. This child was also born because of Morgan’s romantic involvement with a woman, no one ever knew anything about her. The last child is Deena Adair who is also the 4the child of Morgan and Jeanette. She was the adopted child of Morgan after his marriage to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw.
Bradshaw’s Life Post Divorce
Jeanette Adair Bradshaw does not like to be in the limelight after her relationship with Morgan finished. She made her life today way from the limelight because she never liked the life, she chose to live a life away from the botheration of media and its effects on her life. She remained single and never re-married after she got the divorce from Morgan. It must be a very shocking experience as she lost trust in the institution of marriage and never even thought of marrying another man in her life.
However, her former husband Morgan tied a knot with Myrna Colley-Lee in 1986. His second marriage also ended similarly in a divorce. Morgan and Myrna called their relationship to end after 25 years of their marriage in the year 2010. This marriage also had the same reason, infidelity as the divorce.
However, after the year 1979, Jeanette never stood in the spotlight. She never made public appearances till the year 2015. Everything changed in August 2015, she was seen with her ex-husband Morgan, when her most loved granddaughter, Edena Hines’s died. She was killed brutally by her boyfriend Lamar Davenport.
Sadness in Jeanette’s Life
Bradshaw had to go through the most difficult time of her life when her granddaughter Edena Hines was murdered on August 16, 2015. E’dena was the daughter of Deena Adair. Edna was adopted by Morgan and his second wife, Myrna Colley-Lee. Edna was 33 years old when she was stabbed 25 times and killed by her boyfriend just outside her house in Washington, New York. The murderer, Lamar was given 20 years of prison term for the murder, he committed. While the case was going on he had said that Morgan had a sexual relationship with her due to which he was so angry that he murdered her. However, Freeman has denied the allegations.
Hollywood hairstylist Deena Adair also Jeanette’s daughter opened up to the heartbreaking testimony in the Supreme court of Manhattan at the trial of criminal -accused, Lamar Davenport. The mother said that it was really hard to raise a child and was always trying to make up for the lost time with her late daughter. It was really hard for her to come to terms with the loss.
