{"id":2075727,"date":"2025-10-07T21:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2075727"},"modified":"2025-10-07T21:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:45:25","slug":"dolly-partons-sister-freida-asks-fans-to-pray-for-country-legend-amid-recent-health-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dolly-partons-sister-freida-asks-fans-to-pray-for-country-legend-amid-recent-health-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton\u2019s Sister Freida Asks Fans to Pray For Country Legend Amid Recent Health Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Freida Parton<\/strong>, <strong>Dolly Parton\u2019s<\/strong> sister, has asked fans to pray for the country legend amid unspecified <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/dolly-parton-misses-dollywood-ride-211225688.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:health issues;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">health issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cLast night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn\u2019t been feeling her best lately,\u201d Freida wrote via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid08wRFJgMZX92rYCyD1hCC7pQypw5zgSepaGZDms5tGRdfWjHZGugY2k42s47Yu2ynl&amp;id=61577998989224\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> on Tuesday, October 7. \u201cI truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been led to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cShe\u2019s strong, she\u2019s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she\u2019s going to be just fine,\u201d she continued. \u201cGodspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Late last month, the \u201cJolene\u201d singer, 79, announced she was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/dolly-parton-puts-vegas-residency-141434513.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:postponing her Las Vegas residency;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">postponing her Las Vegas residency<\/a> by almost a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI want the fans and public to hear directly from me that, unfortunately, I will need to postpone my upcoming Las Vegas concerts,\u201d Dolly wrote in a message shared on Instagram on September 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post also listed the revised tour dates with her December 2025 dates being pushed back until Fall 2026.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\" &lt;span class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Lumeimages \/ MEGA&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1523\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/HgcQ2bKcVA_fCz5edTspdA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTE1MjM7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/star_860\/c6d059da1debb217b49dd410c4e1795a\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lumeimages \/ MEGA<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That same day, it was announced that two of the Dollywood amusement parks she co-owned with Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation had closed. The parks were both located in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThese centers have played an important role in their communities, and we\u2019re incredibly grateful to the hosts who\u2019ve created so many joyful memories for families,\u201d CEO <strong>Andrew Wexler<\/strong> said in a statement to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/gwinnett-county\/today-is-your-final-day-go-this-gwinnett-amusement-park-closing-after-decades-business\/3WFWWRMDBVHGPIFD7YPRBUCKJI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WSB-TV;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WSB-TV<\/a>. \u201cThis decision is in no way a reflection on the hosts or the quality of the experiences offered, but rather a recognition that Family Entertainment Centers operate differently than the types of attractions we are best structured to support.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freida Parton, Dolly Parton\u2019s sister, has asked fans to pray for the country legend amid unspecified health issues. \u201cLast night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn\u2019t been feeling her best lately,\u201d Freida wrote via Facebook on Tuesday, October 7. \u201cI truly believe in the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2075728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[362618,353698,61053],"class_list":["post-2075727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-country-legend","tag-curtis-hilbun","tag-parton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dolly-Partons-Sister-Freida-Asks-Fans-to-Pray-For-Country.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075729,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075727\/revisions\/2075729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2075728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}