Betty Sue Palmer, 81, passed away on Friday (20.05.16) in Los Angeles
after a long illness, according to Entertainment Tonight and it was
previously revealed that Johnny and Amber wed during a civil ceremony
at their home in Los Angeles before their 2015 marriage in the Bahamas
as Betty was too frail to travel at the time.
A source previously said: "She is too frail to travel, so he and Amber
got married in LA for her. Johnny convinced Amber to have a small
ceremony at their LA home."
Johnny was so close to his mother that he had a tattoo of her name
inside a heart on his left arm and bought her a $1 million 43-acre
Kentucky farm in 1995.
Meanwhile, Johnny often spoke about his mother in interviews and her advice to him on how to stand up to bullies.
He said: "She'd come from nothing but hillbillies and she said, 'OK,
here's the deal. Next time anybody puts their hands on you, pick up a
brick and lay them out'. And I've taken that advice ever since."
And he also opened up about her difficult upbringing, saying: "My mother
was raised in a shack, in the wilds of Appalachia, where the toilet was
an outhouse. She used to say she did the same things that her mom did -
and her mom certainly didn't know any better. With my kids, they're
told 75 times a day that they're loved. One thing I know is they feel
loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of
something."