Dolly Parton’s sister says she has been “up all evening praying” for the singer as she continues to deal with unspecified health problems.
Freida Parton wrote that her 79-year-old sister “hasn’t been feeling her finest recently”, two weeks after the singer postponed a Las Vegas residency scheduled for December, citing “well being challenges”.
“Final evening, I used to be up all evening praying for my sister, Dolly,” Freida Parton wrote on Fb.
“A lot of you already know she hasn’t been feeling her finest recently. I really consider within the energy of prayer, and I’ve been result in ask the entire world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me.
“She’s sturdy, she’s beloved, and with all of the prayers being lifted for her, I do know in my coronary heart she’s going to be simply fantastic. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. All of us love you!”
Parton was attributable to start Dolly: Stay in Las Vegas, the singer’s first prolonged run of concert events within the metropolis in 32 years, on the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on 4 December but it surely has been rescheduled for September 2026.
The singer introduced that she has “been coping with some well being challenges, and my docs inform me that I will need to have just a few procedures”.
She didn’t give particulars however added light-heartedly: “As I joked with them, it have to be time for my 100,000-mile checkup, though it’s not the same old journey to see my plastic surgeon!”
She continued: “In all seriousness, given this, I’m not going to have the ability to rehearse and put collectively the present that I need you to see, and the present that you just need to see. You pay good cash to see me carry out, and I need to be at my finest for you … I simply want somewhat time to get present prepared, as they are saying.
“And don’t fear about me quittin’ the enterprise as a result of God hasn’t stated something about stopping but. However, I consider He’s telling me to decelerate proper now so I could be prepared for extra large adventures with all of you. I like you and thanks for understanding.”
Requested concerning the possibility of retirement in an interview last year, Parton advised the Guardian: “Oh, my Lord, I can’t retire. I at all times say I’ve dreamed myself right into a nook. I’ve acquired to maintain all these desires alive. Each dream spins off into some one thing else … I couldn’t retire if I needed to. And I don’t need to.”
Parton’s husband of practically 60 years, Carl Dean, died aged 82 in March.
