{"id":2077651,"date":"2025-10-08T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2077651"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:58:16","slug":"dolly-parton-speaks-out-about-health-issues-ive-got-some-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dolly-parton-speaks-out-about-health-issues-ive-got-some-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton speaks out about health issues: \u2018I\u2019ve got some problems\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dolly Parton is on the mend.<\/p>\n<p>The singer, 79, took to social media to set the record straight on her health, just one day after her sister asked the public to pray for Parton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know lately, everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am,\u201d\u00a0the country artist said in a video<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPjkor7kfeb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> posted to Instagram<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday, \u201cDo I look sick to you? I\u2019m working hard here!\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"37330551\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.63671875;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37330551\" width=\"376\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/dolly-parton-79-speaks-health-113057688.jpg?w=652\" alt=\"Dolly Parton speaks out in an Instagram video.\" class=\"wp-image-37330551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/dolly-parton-79-speaks-health-113057688.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1018w, 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of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I got around to it, the doctor said, \u2018We need to take care of this, we need to take care of that,\u201d Parton explained. \u201cNothing major, but I did have to cancel some things so I could be closer to home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The star concluded, \u201cI wanted you to know that I\u2019m not dying! I\u2019m not ready to die yet. I don\u2019t think God is through with me, and I ain\u2019t done working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parton captioned her social media post, \u201cI ain\u2019t dead yet!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Story developing<\/em>\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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 celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton is on the mend. The singer, 79, took to social media to set the record straight on her health, just one day after her sister asked the public to pray for Parton. \u201cI know lately, everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am,\u201d\u00a0the country artist said in a video posted to Instagram\u00a0on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2077652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21751,22846,22641,21741,21800],"class_list":["post-2077651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-celebrities","tag-country-music","tag-dolly-parton","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dolly-Parton-speaks-out-about-health-issues-\u2018Ive-got-some.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077651","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=2077651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077653,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077651\/revisions\/2077653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2077652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}