Charley Pride's "secret" son is contesting his will.

[Thebadguy]

LINDALE — Tyler Pride is a big man. He’s built like a linebacker with a handshake to match. Which is not unusual, since he played all the major sports in high school. And he can sing.

To an uncanny degree, that follows the script of his father’s life. His dad was so gifted as an athlete, he played professional baseball before pursuing a singing career that produced four Grammy awards.

But the world at large knows little about Tyler Pride and his connection to his biological father — the country music and civil rights icon Charley Pride, whose legacy is memorialized in The Smithsonian, where in 2015 he became part of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Pride died of COVID-19 at age 86 in December, leaving a will that acknowledges three children, Carlton, Dion and Angela, whose mother is Rozene Pride, the singer’s widow, to whom he was married for 64 years.

On May 20, Tyler Pride, 41, a police officer in Tyler, Texas, filed suit in Dallas County Probate Court, contesting the will of his biological father. Rozene Pride is named as executor in her husband’s will.


Making no effort to challenge Tyler’s paternity, Rozene Pride has responded to the suit, sending a statement to The Dallas Morning News. It reads in part:

“It is heartbreaking to see Tyler try to tarnish Charley’s reputation and break Charley’s estate plan in the hope of getting more money for himself. Tyler’s relationship with Charley in the last years was all about money, since he only called Charley when he wanted money or something else he wanted Charley to get him. He viewed Charley as his ‘cash cow’ and little more.”

A Texas cop, who calls himself the ‘secret’ son of the late Charley Pride, is contesting the singer’s will

 

[get these nets]

Listen to your corner.......and watch for the hook.

 

[get these nets]

Have the Big Boss Man be your love child, brehs!

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Have the Big Boss Man be your love child, brehs!

Dude does kind of look like him… He’s clearly bi racial.. A DNA test might have to be in order

 

[2 one 3]

 

[O.G.B]

 

[Ahadi]

Goddam. Literally watched him perform on the CMT Awards with Jimmie Allen.

 

[concise]

Have the Big Boss Man be your love child, brehs!

 

[TripleAgent]

I mean...if I was the illegitimate, neglected, forgotten child of a star, I'd probably press him, too

 

[Cyrus' Wife]

Not Charlie out here PAWGin too!

 

[TripleAgent]

Not Charlie out here PAWGin too!

That nikka did country music, I'm surprised he had any Black kids

 

[cheek100]

Oh thats def his son

 

[Rekkapryde]

that's what having side babies does. you know cacs gonna try and get their cut.

 

[UpAndComing]

Kinda like Bill Clinton

 

[Easy-E]

I thought ya'll only did this plot twist to fine black women on Instagram;