All About Hayley Williams’ Parents: Her Childhood Trauma Detailed

After a four-year hiatus, Paramore is back, which means more Hayley Williams on our playlists. Paramore never officially disbanded, but the signs were ominous: Williams, for example, who had given up on her solo projects, released her first solo music in 2020. To some fans, Hayley, performing solo, suggested that her days in Paramore were finished.

However, Paramore never ended: the bandmates needed some time to recharge. For Hayley, recharging meant spending time with her family. She told Radio 1 Sounds of the Future with Clara Amfo:

“We all really needed it [a break] to find our identity apart from Paramore. I was glad to be home because we were part of our own community in Nashville and we became part of it as a citizen, as a friend, a daughter, [and] a sister.”

Hayley had PTSD due to her parents’ early divorces

Cristi and Joey Williams welcomed Hayley Williams on December 27, 1988. Hayley hasn’t spoken about her ethnicity, but we suspect she’s Caucasian. Unfortunately, Cristi and Joey had an unhappy union: Hayley’s earliest memory is one of her parents’ fights.

The couple separated when Hayley was four years old, but they continued to live together until they divorced in 2002. Thus, Hayley spent much of her childhood in a divided household. hayley said ID who realized during therapy decades later that her parents’ disputes affected her life:

“I really thought ‘what a cliché how it affects you, that can’t be my scar or emotional wound’, because everyone’s parents are divorced. I was so numb to it that I felt foolish for it having affected me. And the truth is that it was the most crucial moment of my entire life.”

Through therapy, Hayley realized that she blamed herself for her parents’ divorce. Cristi remarried shortly after 2002, but she married “a really horrible man.” williams said The Guardian that Cristi’s second husband was a ‘stepfather’s nightmare’.

Joey also remarried, but their second union was not a happy one either. When Hayley and her mother fled to Franklin, Tennessee, Cristi and Joey were in the midst of their second divorce.

Hayley looked up to her grandparents, who had been together since they were 12 years old. Ironically, her grandmother helped her process her parents’ separation from her: she informed Hayley that some families live in separate houses.

Williams has recently grown close with his stepbrothers and half-siblings.

Hayley has several step-siblings and half-siblings from her parents’ other marriages. Williams has two half-sisters from her father’s second marriage and three half-brothers from her father’s current wife. “I don’t like to say stepmom, it feels so rude,” Hayley said. L’ODET.

Williams also has two stepsisters from his father’s current marriage. “I don’t get to see them much, but I’ve been seeing a lot of the younger of the two lately and she’s super cool,” Hayley said.

Hayley told the outlet that, until recently, she was never close to both sides of her family at the same time. During the 2021 holiday season, Hayley spent time with both sides for the first time. “She felt really comforted,” Williams said. She continued:

“I am dealing with a Nana in the hospital and I see my mom taking care of her. I’m just thinking to myself that these brothers, these people, we will be the ones to take care of each other and our parents. I am very grateful to feel close to all of them now. Family is a really touching subject.”

Williams sees his bandmates as his chosen family

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As an eight-year-old boy watching MTV, Williams’ dream of becoming a musician manifested itself. She said The New York Times he longed for the company of his bandmates. “I wanted to be part of a family, you know?” Hayley said.

After moving to Franklin, Williams met Josh, Zac Farro, and Jeremy Davis, his future bandmates. The band enjoyed rehearsing and mingling after school and little did they imagine they would become a worldwide act. “[I found] people who were like me and I was like them too,” he said. L’ODET.

Unfortunately, internal conflicts led to the departure of some bandmates, raising fears that Williams’ chosen family would also collapse. hayley said ID who has tried everything to keep Paramore together:

“I’ve been trying to keep that family together since I was a kid and obviously we’ve been through our own ups and downs, it’s like a fucking soap opera.”

Hayley is the only member of Paramore to appear in all of the band’s projects; she is the glue that holds the band together. She said The New York Times:

“I met my people at 13. You can never be friends with the same people your whole life, let alone get a second chance with them when you fall apart.”

williams said L’ODET in 2019 that as long as she, Zac and York are still alive, Paramore will never die: “So I feel like yes, I want to be in Paramore… I’ve been in a band with them since I was 12 years old; I don’t think the band is going anywhere. As long as we’re friends, the band just is. It’s only in us.”

“I learned that the family of choice was just as important as the family of origin,” Hayley said. “And my chosen family is my band.”

Hayley felt compelled to make her marriage work because of her traumatic past.

Hayley’s childhood trauma forced her to hold on to relationships for too long. Williams did not want to marry Chad Gilbert, but she went on with the union anyway. She said L’ODET:

“I really didn’t want to get married; I thought I did, but I didn’t. I thought it would help. And I couldn’t keep that together either. So I’ve had a lot of unraveling and deconstruction of my ideas of family, loyalty, commitment.”

“I think for a long time I wanted to create what my parents didn’t create for me,” Williams said. The New York Times. Hayley wanted the marriage to work so badly that she considered giving up music. She even contacted Julie Greenwald, Atlantic’s COO, with a proposal to restructure Paramore’s contract.

“I was in a very unhealthy relationship and I kept thinking, ‘I can fix it this time,’” Williams said. The Guardian. “I wanted everything, family, and I thought I might even stop making music for a while to do that. Give up what is most precious to me? Are you kidding me?”

Williams inadvertently announced that their marriage was doomed through songs on Paramore’s fifth album, After Laughter. “I think a lot of people knew that I was headed for a divorce before I did,” Hayley said. ID. “Sometimes it takes us a long time to see our own shit. I wish life wasn’t like that.”

Hayley hopes to raise her own children one day. She said: “I am grateful for the vastness of family and it gives me more hope that one day I can create my own blood. And I can let it happen the way it’s supposed to happen.”

Hayley’s mom and dad finally settled down after her third marriage.

He has been lucky for the third time for Cristi and Joey. Cristi settled in with Scott Gilbert, a childhood friend who in her day had a crush on her. “He had a beautiful smile,” Gilbert said. 11ALIVE.

The couple ‘dated’ for about two weeks before Cristi stepped aside for a friend who had a crush on Scott. Cristi and Scott lost contact for 23 years before Scott sent her a friend request on Facebook. The spark of more than two decades ago had not faded, so the couple started dating.

A year later, Gilbert proposed to Cristi in the school media center where it all started. Cristi said Scott chose the perfect place to propose: “Even though we are far from here now, this was the right place to be, to start over. I wouldn’t have wanted it to go anywhere else.” Scott said:

“One of the things we talked about with our kids a little bit was that the person you knew when you were young in school and can still be that person today. Twenty-five years later, he may still be the same person.”

The identity of Joey Williams’ wife remains unclear. Judging by Hayley’s statements about the family, it seems that her parents are in a happy marriage.

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