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Dolly Parton <\/strong>has set the record straight about her health<\/strong> after a wave of concern started by her sister Freida\u2019s <\/strong>prayer request. The 79-year-old country legend assured fans that she\u2019s doing well, joking that she\u2019s \u201cnot ready to die yet\u201d <\/strong>and that she \u201cain\u2019t done working.\u201d<\/p>\n Dolly Parton is alive, well, and working despite growing rumors about her health. <\/strong>In a video shared on October 8, the \u201c9 to 5\u201d hitmaker addressed fan worries after her sister Freida\u2019s emotional post suggested she was unwell.<\/p>\n \u201cDo I look sick to you? I\u2019m working hard here!\u201d Parton said cheerfully, speaking from the set of a Grand Ole Opry commercial shoot. \u201cI wanted to put everybody\u2019s mind at ease. I appreciate your prayers, I can always use them, but I want you to know that I\u2019m okay.\u201d<\/p>\n Parton acknowledged that she\u2019s been dealing with some lingering health issues, particularly since the death of her husband, Carl Dean, earlier this year. The couple had been married for 58 years before Dean passed away in March at age 82.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Carl was very sick and then after he passed, I didn\u2019t take care of myself,\u201d she admitted. \u201cSo anyway, when I got around to it, the doctor said, we need to take care of this. Nothing major, but I did have to cancel some things so I could be closer to home.\u201d<\/p>\n Ultimately, Parton dismissed online death rumors, including a viral AI-generated photo that falsely showed her on her \u201cdeathbed\u201d with fellow country star Reba McEntire. \u201cIf I was really dying, ReI don\u2019t think Reba would be the one at my death bed.\u201d she joked. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of rumours flying around, and I figured if you heard it from me, you\u2019d know that I\u2019m ok.\u201d<\/p>\n The health chatter began when Parton\u2019s sister, Freida, wrote on Facebook<\/a> that she\u2019d been \u201cup all night praying\u201d for her sister. The post led fans to fear something serious had happened, prompting Freida to later clarify<\/a> that she didn\u2019t mean to alarm anyone.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on <\/em>Mandatory.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Dolly Parton Gives Health Update: \u2018I Ain\u2019t Dead Yet\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dolly Parton has set the record straight about her health after a wave of concern started by her sister Freida\u2019s prayer request. The 79-year-old country legend assured fans that she\u2019s doing well, joking that she\u2019s \u201cnot ready to die yet\u201d and that she \u201cain\u2019t done working.\u201d Dolly Parton gives health update amid scares Dolly Parton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2078776,"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":[25172],"tags":[22641],"class_list":["post-2078775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dolly-parton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dolly-Parton-Gives-Health-Update-\u2018I-Aint-Dead-Yet.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078775","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=2078775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078777,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078775\/revisions\/2078777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Dolly Parton gives health update amid scares<\/h2>\n