Editing Coal Miner's Daughter (film) (section)

==Historical inaccuracies== 
The film emphasizes Lynn's self-fabricated myth that she got married at the age of 13. The myth went uncontested until May 2012, when the [[Associated Press]] unearthed her Kentucky birth certificate, revealing that Lynn was actually almost 16 at the time of her marriage.<ref name=AP>{{cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/story/2012-05-18/loretta-lynn/55068814/1|title=AP: Country singer Loretta Lynn married at 15, not 13|work=USA Today|date=May 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831101136/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/story/2012-05-18/loretta-lynn/55068814/1|archive-date=August 31, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://gazette.com/news/loretta-lynn-3-years-older-than-shes-led-people-to-believe/article_20dcc144-c518-5ce3-8b88-33328731143d.html|title=Loretta Lynn 3 years older than she's led people to believe|work=The Gazette|date=May 18, 2012}}</ref> When contacted by the AP before the exposé went to publication, Lynn's spokeswoman declined comment.<ref name=AP/> The discrepancy is significant as it alters the narrative Lynn spun in books and other public forums. In reality, it would have been illegal for a girl under the age of 15 to marry in Kentucky.

There are other events depicted in the film that are contrary to actual facts:
*Patsy Cline never owned a tour bus, although she had thought about purchasing one shortly before her death.
*Cline's plane crash did not occur early in the morning as the DJ on the radio in Lynn's bedroom stated; it happened shortly after 6:00 in the evening.
*"[[You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)]]" was not inspired by one of Mooney's cheating episodes, which was caught by Lynn while touring with Cline, as the film suggests. The inspiration came from a fan of Lynn, whom she met backstage. The fan told Lynn how another woman had been trying to steal her husband from her, to which Lynn replied, "Why she ain't woman enough to take your man," instantly giving Lynn an idea for a song title. Also, the film portrayed Lynn singing the song to Cline while writing it; the song was not recorded until late 1965, nearly three years after Cline's death; so it was likely that Lynn didn't write the song (and met the fan who inspired it) until after Cline's death as well.
*In the film, just before Cline's death, Lynn tells her she is pregnant with twins; given this is the last time they see each other, this would have happened February to March 1963. Lynn's twin daughters were in fact born August 6, 1964, roughly 17 months after Cline's death.