Kathie Lee Gifford Ex-Husband: Who Is Paul Johnson?

Paul Johnson is the first/ex-husband of Kathryn Lee Gifford, a French-born American television presenter, singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author.

Kathie Lee and Pual Johnson, a composer/arranger/producer/publisher, got married in 1976.

The couple gained fame in Christian music, appearing on covers of Christian magazines.

Sadly, their marriage was strenuous from the start and in 1981, Johnson moved out of their home and finally got divorced in 1982, 6 years after they got married.

Gifford confessed that she lost her virginity to Paul Johnson, but that the couple had a “sexless marriage” before their divorce.

Though Gifford initially stayed mostly private about her first marriage, she opened up about the relationship in her intimate new memoir, It’s Never Too Late.

In the explosive memoir, Gifford wrote;

“The truth is, it was only a marriage in the pages of the law.

“Though Paul and I were married, we shared only one thing – our faith.”

Gifford continued;

“I was a virgin on my wedding night with Paul, and still considered myself one when he left me five years later.

“It’s hard even now to explain why I stayed so long in a sexless marriage. I certainly would never do it again.

“But back then divorce had much more of a stigma, and no one in my family was divorced.

“I believed that God could heal our marriage and prayed every day that He would.”