{"id":66011,"date":"2025-10-08T01:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/66011\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T01:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:51:10","slug":"dolly-parton-sister-asks-for-prayers-amid-icons-health-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/66011\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Sister Asks for ‘Prayers’ Amid Icon’s Health Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDolly Parton<\/a> has millions of fans keeping her in their thoughts as she faces issues with her health<\/a>, and her sister Freida is leading the charge.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a post shared Tuesday (Oct. 7) on Facebook<\/a>, Freida told followers that she had been \u201cup all night praying for my sister, Dolly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMany of you know she hasn\u2019t been feeling her best lately,\u201d the country icon\u2019s sibling continued. \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. She\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.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGodspeed, my sissy Dolly,\u201d Freida added. \u201cWe all love you!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe post comes a little more than a week after Parton postponed <\/a>her Las Vegas residency, citing \u201chealth challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy doctors tell me that I must have a few procedures,\u201d the 10-time Grammy winner wrote in a statement at the time, sounding optimistic that she\u2019ll return to the stage soon. \u201cAs I joked with them, it must be time for my 100,000-mile check-up, although it\u2019s not the usual trip to see my plastic surgeon!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tParton had originally been set to perform in Sin City throughout the first half of December, but the run of shows will now take place in September 2026. \u201cI just need a little time to get show ready, as they say,\u201d she added in her post announcing the delay. \u201cAnd don\u2019t worry about me quitting the business because God hasn\u2019t said anything about stopping yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Dollywood founder has certainly overcome a lot this year. In addition to her health issues, Parton lost her husband<\/a> of 60 years, with Carl Dean dying at the age of 82 in March. Even so, the singer has put on a strong front in the face of grief, at one point offering up advice<\/a> based on her own experiences when Brandon Blackstock \u2014 the former stepson of Reba McEntire and ex-husband of Kelly Clarkson \u2014 died in August.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think you just have to be grateful for the years that you\u2019ve had with someone, and you just try to remember the very best of all that, and take their energy that they had given you then and just kind of recycle that and let that become a part of you,\u201d she told Entertainment Tonight. \u201cJust honor their memory and know that they are in a better place than we are these days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton has millions of fans keeping her in their thoughts as she faces issues with her health,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,14067,103,61,60,633],"class_list":{"0":"post-66011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-genre-country","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-music-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}