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1974. Al Green 's "Grits Incident": When a stewardess friend of Green's shows up to meet the singer, he ends up at his Memphis home with her and his companion, Mary Woodson, who is dangerously obsessed with the singer. When Green goes into the bathroom to brush his teeth, Woodson bursts in and pours a pot of boiling grits on him, burning him.
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Hi Records. The music world was shocked on Oct. 18, 1974 when Al Green was doused with a boiling pot of grits by girlfriend Mary Woodson. Green was about to shower at his Memphis home when Woodson.
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On Oct. 18, 1974, for reasons that still remain unclear, Green's girlfriend, Mary Woodson, then 29, burst in on the singer as he prepared to take a shower in his Memphis home. Heaving scalding.
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Ginny Winn/Getty Images Just two days after Al Green left Memphis Baptist Hospital following his 1974 skin graft surgeries, one of his second cousins came to his office and held him at gunpoint, per Jet magazine. The cousin, who was not named by the press, claimed Green owed her money and demanded he hand it over.
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On this day in 1974, famed soul and gospel singer Al Green was attacked by Mary Woodson, a woman who he had been in an on-again-off-again relationship with for a year. Woodson threw a boiling pot of grits on Green's back while he was undressing to take a bath in his Memphis, Tennesee, home. Mary Woodson then shot and killed herself with a gun.
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1. Family members say that before Woodson's second marriage, following an affair, she'd swallowed a handful of pills and had to have her stomach pumped. 2. In another relationship, Woodson was sitting in a car with her then-boyfriend and questioned him about his infidelity. After he confessed, she shot him in the foot!
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Mary Woodson, the 29 year old mother of 4, had killed herself. She'd left a suicide note in her purse. It is kind of ironic that she would be concerned about whether or not Green would marry her when she was already married. However, this woman obviously had several issues and she was hoping to escape her life any way she could.
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Al Green was one of the greatest soul and pop singers but when his lover Mary Woodson threw hot grits on him in the shower, it changed his life prompting him to become a preacher.. In his Memphis.
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Albert Leornes Greene (born April 13, 1946), known professionally as Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter, pastor and record producer best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including "Take Me to the River", "Tired of Being Alone", "I'm Still in Love with You", "Love and Happiness", and his signature song.
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There can be no question that anyone would have been shaken by the events that transpired in the Memphis, Tennessee, home of singer Al Green in the early morning hours of October 18, 1974, when an.
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We all have heard the story about the woman who threw hot grits on Al Green and many folks have even joked about it from time to time, calling him 'Al "Grits" Green' and such, but what many people either don't know, or have long since forgotten about, is that the woman, Mary Woodson
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MEMPHIS, Oct. 18 (UPI)โA former girl friend dumped a pan of scalding grits on Al Green, a popular singer, today as he was getting out of the bathtub and then apparently shot herself to death.
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On October 18, 1974, Mary Woodson, a woman who was his longtime girlfriend, threw a large pot of sticky boiling grits on him as he was preparing to shower, because he didn't want to get married. She committed suicide in minutes, which deeply affected Green to turn to God and religion.