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Brian Wilson's touching love story with wife Melinda: How the late Beach Boys singer met his 'savior'


The couple, who were married for 28 years until Melinda's passing last year, met at a car dealership the future Mrs. Wilson was working at in 1986.

While the couple split three years into their romance as a result of the Beach Boy singer's therapist and then-legal guardian Dr. Eugene Levy, they eventually wed and started a family together. The relationship between Wilson and Ledbetter was chronicled in a 2014 biopic film titled Love & Mercy, in which they were respectively portrayed by Paul Dano/John Cusack and Elizabeth Banks The motion picture examined the Beach Boys singer's past battles with mental illness; and his controversial dealings with his late therapist.

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