Background
Johnson's biological parents are not known. She claimed that her adopted parents, Edwin and Nancy Johnson, physically abused her as a child and she attempted suicide during puberty as a result. At age 17, she got pregnant and gave birth to twins Jennifer and Kristina with her first husband Craig Bratcher. After their divorce, Johnson lost custody of her daughters.
Johnson married two more times before meeting Steven Beard while working as a waitress at the Austin Country Club. Beard was a retired Fox network television executive and self-made multi-millionaire. His first wife died from cancer. Johnson moved in with Beard after he convinced her that he would help her regain custody with her daughters. After winning the case, the two began dating, though their relationship was kept in secret (with Johnson pretending to be Beard's housekeeper) until Beard's daughter discovered them in the same hotel room during the 1993 Super Bowl. They were married on February 18, 1995 despite him being more than twice her age and suspicions from Beard's family and friends and lived in a wealthy neighborhood in Austin, Texas.
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