Mac Davis - Personal Life

Personal Life

He married three times and has three children — Joel Scott, Noah Claire, and Cody Luke.

Marriages:

• Fran Cook (divorced); one son, Joel Scott
• Sarah Barg — 1971–1976 (divorced, no children)
• Lise Kristen Gerard — 1982–Present (two children, Noah Claire and Cody Luke)

At 21, he married a Georgian, Fran Cook, and when their son, Joel, was born a year later, he shifted from playing rock bands to learning the music business via Liberty Records' publishing division. The Liberty job got him to Los Angeles and made it easier to "pitch his own tunes" to record producers. "One day Fran decided to do her own thing and she wanted me to do mine." They divorced, and she returned to Atlanta, where she still lives with Joel.

Mac next met Sarah Barg, then 16 and living in his apartment building with her mother. Two years later they were married. "We talked about having a family, but I was waiting for her to grow up," he says. She left him in 1976 for Glen Campbell and had one child (Dylan) with Campbell, whom she also left shortly after Dylan's birth. "Obviously, I was right," Davis once stated.

In 1980, Davis started to date a young nurse, Lise Gerard. They married in 1982 when she was 24 and subsequently had two children.