Tim McGraw has been happily married to Faith Hill since 1996, and he has nothing but great things to say about his wife.
While Faith has always exuded a friendly stage presence, Tim shared an insight into what she's like behind closed doors in a candid new interview.
"She's one of the coolest chicks in the world, she really is," he told fellow country star Tracy Lawrence on his podcast, TL's Road House.
"Besides being beautiful and talented and a great mom, she's just a really solid Mississippi girl. I love her. I got lucky."
© Getty ImagesTim credited Faith with "saving" him after they first met and helping him to curb his "wild ways".
"I've been lucky, I've been very fortunate," Tim said of his life and career. "First off, meeting my wife saved my life. I mean, I was a wild man. I was having fun!
"She turned my life around and I couldn't have found a better woman," he added, referring again to Faith's kindness. "Not only beautiful and talented but just a good, good person."
© Getty ImagesTim's praising of his wife comes after she took a step back from the spotlight last summer and has only been seen a handful of times alongside her husband over the past 12 months.
In August 2024, Faith shut down her Instagram, X, and Facebook pages. Her official website has no content other than a welcome page.
Relationship history
© InstagramThe couple met at a Nashville gig at the end of 1994, but they were both involved with other people. Faith was engaged to record producer Scott Hendricks, while Tim was dating Kristine Donahue.
However, when she joined his Spontaneous Combustion tour in 1996, sparks flew, and she broke off her engagement with Scott before marrying Tim that same year.
She previously told People: "If someone is going to judge my character because I was engaged to somebody and then I left him for somebody else – 'Oh, okay, now she's a [expletive] and a bad person' – I can't control that. But I wasn't about to let Tim slip through my hands."
© InstagramDespite being involved with other people when they first met, Tim later revealed he fell for Faith "in an instant".
"I looked at her and was smitten right away," he told Jimmy Fallon.
He also recalled their first encounter in a 2018 Instagram post he dedicated to Faith.
© Getty Images"From the first time we met, I knew (she didn't!) that she was the love of my life forever.... no matter the ups and downs, the happy and sad or the good and bad," he wrote. "She’s so special and so loved by us."
They married in a surprise wedding held in Tim's aunt's backyard on October 6, 1996.
Invited guests assumed they were attending a charity softball game before Faith appeared in a simple white wedding dress with pearls and Tim in a tuxedo.
© Getty Images"We'd try to plan it a couple of times, but everybody kept finding out about it," he told Regis & Kelly in 2011. "My sisters were a little upset because they wanted to dress up," he added.
They are now parents to three daughters: Gracie, 28, Maggie, 26, and Audrey, 23.
