{"id":655151,"date":"2026-03-14T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/655151\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:40:14","slug":"dolly-parton-makes-first-appearance-in-months-after-health-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/655151\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Makes First Appearance in Months After Health Scare"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDolly Parton<\/a> made her first public and in-person appearance of 2026 on Friday, sporting her signature blonde bouffant and a big smile on her face.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen taking the stage at Dollywood in Tennessee to celebrate the theme park\u2019s 41st season, the country icon said, \u201cI\u2019ve been doing a whole lot of things. I have been not touring, as you know, I\u2019ve had a few little health issues, and we\u2019re taking good care of them.\u201d Parton postponed her Las Vegas concerts toward the end of 2025 to undergo unspecified procedures to address health concerns. The postponements arrived months after the death of her husband, Carl Dean, at the age of 82<\/a>. The couple had been married for nearly six decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just kind of got wore down and wore out, grieving over Carl and lot of other little things going on,\u201d continued Parton. \u201cI needed to build myself back up, spiritually, emotionally and physically. But all is good. It didn\u2019t slow me down,\u201d she said, before momentarily becoming distracted by a stray hair and joking, \u201cI\u2019m back to normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen speaking about Dean, who she has lovingly praised during interviews throughout her career, Parton said, \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever be married. I think Carl Dean\u2019s waiting for me on the other side. And if I should show up at the pearly gates with somebody else, he would not like that. He\u2019d be saying, \u2018Who\u2019s that little pisser? You leave him outside the gates, and if the Lord wants him in, he\u2019ll bring him. You get on in here with me!’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tParton and Dean\u2019s 50th wedding anniversary helped inspire<\/a> the musician\u2019s 2016 album of love songs,\u00a0Pure & Simple<\/a>. \u201cI was just trying to think about all the different colors of love through the years,\u201d Parton told\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0at the time. \u201cI thought, \u2018Well, I\u2019m going to write about mine and Carl\u2019s relationship. It\u2019s just a pure and simple relationship,\u2019 so it started with that and then I thought, \u2018Well why don\u2019t I just write a whole album of love songs?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Friday, Parton also shared that she has been rewriting songs for her upcoming Broadway musical, which is slated to launch this fall in New York. When asked by an audience member if there\u2019s one piece of advice she lives by, Parton replied, \u201cNever forget who you are, never forget where you came from, and always kind of go back home. You can always go back home in your heart and in your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton made her first public and in-person appearance of 2026 on Friday, sporting her signature blonde bouffant…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":655152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[1577,171,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-655151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dolly-parton","tag-entertainment","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116227816029377659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}