{"id":864071,"date":"2026-08-22T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864071\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T06:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:30:17","slug":"dolly-parton-reveals-reason-behind-ongoing-health-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864071\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton reveals reason behind ongoing health struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dolly Parton<\/a> has opened up about her ongoing health struggles<\/a>, revealing she neglected her own wellbeing while caring for her late husband.<\/p>\n

The country music legend, 80, has been forced to cancel a number of appearances<\/a> over the past few months as she deals with health problems.<\/p>\n

\"Dolly<\/p>\n

Dolly Parton has shared a fresh update on her ongoing health struggles.\u00a0Getty Images for The Recording A<\/p>\n

Parton has revealed she is still recovering and said some issues went unattended while she was looking after her husband Carl Dean<\/a> before his death last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am dealing with some health issues that I just didn\u2019t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl,\u201d she told People<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dean, who was married to Parton for almost 60 years, died in March 2025 aged 82.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like I haven\u2019t been through hard times with my health,\u201d she said, referencing months she spent unwell with \u201cfemale issues\u201d during the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think because we live in a 24\/7 world with social media, everything gets magnified in ways it wasn\u2019t years ago. I used to joke that I was the Queen of the Tabloids, but now I guess I can say I\u2019m the Queen of Social Media AI!<\/p>\n

\u201cSeriously, though, even though I\u2019m still healin\u2019, I\u2019m still workin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The update comes just one week after Parton was forced to pull out of an appearance<\/a> at her Dollywood<\/a> theme park in Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Parton told fans at the time that she had been suffering from dizziness and dehydration, prompting her doctor to temporarily ban her from travelling.<\/p>\n

\"Dolly<\/p>\n

The country music legend was forced to miss a major Dollywood appearance last week.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so my Nashville doctor kind of clipped my wings, saying you ain\u2019t travelling this week,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I guess if your doctor tells you \u2018you ain\u2019t travelling this week\u2019, you ain\u2019t travelling this week,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I like to keep all of you in the loop, like I said I would on everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer has also previously revealed she suffered from kidney stones, while her immune and digestive systems were \u201call out of whack\u201d.<\/p>\n

Her health problems forced her to postpone a planned Las Vegas residency, with Parton admitting in May she was improving but not yet ready to return to the stage.<\/p>\n

At the time, she revealed some of her medication left her feeling \u201cswimmy headed\u201d and joked that being dizzy while carrying instruments in five-inch heels wasn\u2019t a good idea.<\/p>\n

Parton has now announced plans for the Life of Many Colours Museum in downtown Nashville. The museum will form part of her new SongTeller Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton has opened up about her ongoing health struggles, revealing she neglected her own wellbeing while caring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-864071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}