{"id":184801,"date":"2025-10-08T06:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/184801\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:17:07","slug":"dolly-partons-sister-asks-fans-to-pray-for-country-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/184801\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton’s sister asks fans to pray for country singer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freida ended her message on an upbeat note.<\/p>\n

“She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

“Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you!”<\/p>\n

Parton had been scheduled to perform six shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in December.<\/p>\n

But she postponed the gigs until September next year<\/a>, explaining she wouldn’t have enough time to rehearse for them.<\/p>\n

Parton did not disclose the nature of her health issues, but she was recently forced to pull out of a Dollywood event after being diagnosed with a kidney stone that she said was causing “a lot of problems”.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, she lost her beloved husband Carl Dean<\/a> after nearly 60 years of marriage.<\/p>\n

She later dedicated a new song, If You Hadn’t Been There, to his memory.<\/p>\n

The musician is best known for a string of country crossover hits including Coat of Many Colors, I Will Always Love You, 9 To 5 and Jolene.<\/p>\n

Her Las Vegas stint would have been her first visit to the Strip since the 1990s, when she performed alongside her Islands In The Stream duet partner, Kenny Rogers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freida ended her message on an upbeat note. “She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-184801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}