Reba McEntire is familiar with the pain of sorrow and loss. The country music star was killed in an aeroplane crash in 1991 while performing, along with seven other band members and her tour manager. A private event in San Diego featured a performance by the famous person and her band on March 16, 1991. At Brown Field Municipal Airport, two aircraft were prepared to fly the band members to Fort Wayne, Indiana. , for the scheduled performance that follows.

There are few stars within the realm of country music as universally beloved as Reba McEntire. Since her emergence in the late 1970s, she’s become Nashville royalty — she’s literally been nicknamed the Queen of Country — and also demonstrated that singing and writing songs are far from her only talents. In fact, she’s also carved out a successful career as a film and television actor, with credits including the cult-horror movie «Tremors» (and its various sequels), as well as her eponymous TV sitcom, «Reba,» which ran for six hit seasons. She’s also performed on Broadway, starring in a 2001 production of the musical «Annie Get Your Gun.»

Yet amid all that success, McEntire has experienced some hard times as well. Through it all, she’s displayed a rugged stoicism, no doubt resulting from her hardscrabble Oklahoma upbringing, leaving her stubbornly refusing to give in to grief, sadness, pain, or any negativity when biting into whatever lemons life threw her way. «And you don’t complain. You don’t b****. You don’t cry,» she once told The Washington Post of the work ethic she inherited from her parents. «You work twice as hard and try to find a better way to do things. And that’s what I did.» Still, it certainly couldn’t have been easy to live through the kind of heartbreak, loss, and regret that she’s experienced — all under the harsh glare of the spotlight. To find out more, keep reading for a look at some of the tragic details about Reba McEntire’s life