{"id":878246,"date":"2026-08-31T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:22:19","slug":"dolly-partons-niece-misses-her-4-am-calls-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878246\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton’s Niece Misses Her 4 AM Calls After Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dolly Parton<\/a>‘s niece says one of the things she’ll miss most about the country legend is getting calls from her at 4 AM.<\/p>\n

Lainey Parton shared an emotional tribute to Instagram after Dolly was laid to rest … saying it still doesn’t feel real she’s gone and she’d give anything to see her name pop up on her phone again.<\/p>\n

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Lainey wrote … “I’m even going to miss those 4 AM calls.”<\/p>\n

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She also opened up about how close they were, saying Dolly — who never had children of her own — made her nieces and nephews feel like they were hers.<\/p>\n

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Growing up, Dolly always made Lainey feel like she was enough and never made her dreams seem too big.<\/p>\n

And that support went beyond words … Dolly financially supported her through beauty school and helped get her career started.<\/p>\n

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She also recalled being a nervous freshman in high school when Dolly asked her to sing on her “Smoky Mountain DNA” album … saying Dolly made her feel safe, confident and like she belonged beside her.<\/p>\n

As TMZ previously reported … Dolly’s loved ones gathered<\/a> Friday at her Nashville burial site alongside her late husband, Carl Dean<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lainey closed the tribute simply … “I love you, Granny. Always.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton‘s niece says one of the things she’ll miss most about the country legend is getting calls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-878246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}