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Some time later, the still addicted Cash (his father tells him that he would do well to start "sleeping at night...or eating...or both") takes his wife to an awards program which June also attends. Despite his wife's objections to the level of interest he is paying her, Cash persuades June (who is divorcing her second husband, a stock car driver) to come out of semi-retirement and tour with him.
The tour is a great success (June is shown performing "[[Wildwood Flower]]" solo, and, with Cash, the hits "[[Jackson (song)|Jackson]]" and "[[It Ain't Me Babe]]"), but backstage Cash's wife is critical of June's influence. After one performance, Cash and June sleep together in her hotel room. The next morning, as June is on the phone with one of her daughters, she notices Cash taking several pills and begins to doubt the wisdom of continuing the previous night's relationship. At that evening's concert, Cash, upset by Carter's apparent rejection, is incoherent during his customary "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" opening, forgets the lyrics to the song "
On his way home, Cash travels to Mexico to purchase more drugs and is busted in [[El Paso, Texas]]. Cash's wife Vivian is not pleased, and between his substance abuse and her awareness of his interest in June, the tensions in Cash's marriage flare up when he tries to put up "pictures of my band" (most of which seem to be of June) at home over his wife's objections. After a final violent dispute, the pair separate and Cash moves to Nashville, where he shares living quarters with [[Waylon Jennings]].
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