Kris will receive CMT's Johnny Cash Visionary Award during an April 16 awards show in Nashville, officials there announced today.
Here's what Kris told the Associated Press about the honor: "John was my hero before he was my friend, and anything with his name on it is really an honor in my eyes.
"I was thinking back to when I first met him, and if I ever thought that I'd be getting an award with his name on it, it would have carried me through a lot of hard times."
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