Editing Lou Reed (section)

==Personal life==
Reed married Bettye Kronstad in 1973. She later said he had been a violent drunk when on tour.<ref name="nyt">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/fashion/who-was-the-real-lou-reed.html |first=Alex |last=Williams |date=November 1, 2015 |title=Who Was the Real Lou Reed? |work=The New York Times }}</ref> From 1973 through early 1978, Reed was in a relationship with [[Rachel Humphreys]], a trans woman he met at Club 82.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Simakovsky|first=Rob|title=New York Series: Lou Reed "Coney Island Baby" - NYS Music|date=March 30, 2021 |url=https://nysmusic.com/2021/03/30/new-york-series-lou-reed-coney-island-baby/|access-date=August 22, 2021|language=en-us}}</ref> Reed married British designer Sylvia Morales in 1980.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/bettye-kronstad-speaks-for-the-first-time-about-her-marriage-to-lou-reed-fame-is-a-fiend-it-turns-10166659.html|title=Bettye Kronstad has spoken about her marriage to Lou Reed for the first time|work=[[The Independent]]|date=April 10, 2015|access-date=November 8, 2017}}</ref><ref name="timesonline">{{cite news |first=Robert |last=Sandall |title=Lou Reed: Walk on the mild side |url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article860207.ece |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100531190342/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article860207.ece |url-status= dead |archive-date= May 31, 2010 |work=[[The Sunday Times]]|date=February 9, 2003 |access-date=December 20, 2008 |location=London}} {{subscription required}}</ref> In 1994, they divorced.{{sfnp|Brown|2013|p=98}} From 1992 on, Reed was romantically linked to musician and artist [[Laurie Anderson]], and the two worked together on several recordings. They married on April 12, 2008.<ref>{{cite news |last=Aleksander |first=Irina |url= http://observer.com/2008/04/morning-memo-lou-reed-and-laurie-anderson-make-it-legal-suri-cruises-100000-birthday/ |title=Morning Memo: Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson Make it Legal |work=The New York Observer |date=April 23, 2008 |access-date=August 5, 2015}}</ref>

Reed said that despite his Jewish background, his "real god was rock 'n' roll".<ref name="NYROCK1998">{{cite web|url=http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/loureed_int.htm|title=The Gospel According to Lou: Interview with Lou Reed|author=Gabriella|website=Nyrock.com|date=November 1998|access-date=October 27, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031184208/http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/loureed_int.htm|archive-date=October 31, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/lou-reeds-contradictory-jewishness/|title=Lou Reed's paradoxical Jewishness|work=[[The Times of Israel]]|date=October 27, 2013|access-date=September 28, 2014}}</ref> He practiced [[tai chi]] during the last part of his life.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="andersonrs"/> He studied [[meditation]] with [[Tibetan Buddhist]] teacher [[Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche]], and described himself as "a student of Buddhist philosophy."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sperry |first1=Rod Meade |title=Magic & Loss: Celebrating Lou Reed |url=https://www.lionsroar.com/magic-loss-lou-reed/ |website=Lion's Roar |access-date=January 16, 2025}}</ref>