 In 1977, she gave a memorable speech in which she revealed that she had been raped on the country music circuit.Scotty Wiseman was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971.After his death in 1981 from a heart attack in Gainesville, Florida, Cooper married Ernest Stamey in 1983; and in 1989 recorded her first album in 20 years for a small traditional music label, Mar-lu Records out of Portageville, Missouri.