Dolly Parton Dishes on Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn, Admits They Would ‘Gossip’ About Each Other

Dolly Parton has been sharing videos in which she reminisces about her life in show business on her new Substack account — and in the latest offering, she recalls working alongside some of her fellow female country superstars.

“I loved Tammy [Wynette] and Dottie [Rambo] and Loretta [Lynn] and Lynn Anderson,” the “Jolene” singer, 79, gushed in a video posted on Tuesday, November 18. “We were like sisters.”

“Oh, we did the gossip and stuff about each other when they’d leave the room,” she confessed, “but we’d still welcome them back in loving them just like you do with your own family.”

But the 10-time Grammy winner, who recorded the 1993 album Honky Tonk Angels with her longtime friends Wynette and Lynn, insisted that there “was a deep love between us,” adding that despite the gossip, there was very little competition between them.

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“We were … as Minnie Pearl would say, ‘just proud to be here,’” she explained.

“We all took great pride in one another and we were encouraging,” the Steel Magnolias star added. “There was no real jealousy between us. We just wanted everybody to do good.”

It seems their friendships were the real deal: Before Wynette passed away in 1998, Parton visited the hospital to do her nails, The Boot reported. After Lynn died in 2022, the “I Will Always Love You” songwriter called her a “hero and one of the most important, but still down-to-earth singer-songwriters in history” during a tribute at the ACM Awards.

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