Dolly Parton sat across from Wendy Williams in that bright studio, blue top gleaming, hair doing what Dolly hair always did: arriving three minutes before she did.
Wendy leaned in, already grinning. “Okay, I have to ask. Do you ever just… take it off? Like at night. At home. Pajamas. No cameras. No nothing.”
Dolly laughed before the question even finished. “Oh, honey. You mean go to bed looking like a regular person?”
“Yes!”
“Well.” Dolly folded her hands, rings catching the lights. “I spend a lot of time in California, and California has a habit of shaking when it feels like it. I thought, if I have to run out in the street in the middle of the night, there are going to be cameras. News vans. Neighbors with phones. And I refuse to be on the eleven o’clock news looking like I lost a fight with a pillow.”
Wendy screamed. “So you sleep in the makeup?”
“I sleep ready,” Dolly said. “I don’t answer the door without hair and a little paint on. I keep a wig close enough that if the ground starts dancing, I can grab it on the way out. I might go wigless around the house in the morning with some rollers in, but I am not meeting an earthquake barefaced. That’s just poor planning.”
Wendy slapped the desk. “The only emergency you’d consider it for?”
Dolly thought for half a second. “If Carl(her husband) had a heart attack. And even then I’d have to really think about it. I’d pray for him and check a mirror. A woman can do two things at once.”
The audience howled. Wendy wiped her eyes.
“So that’s the secret,” Wendy said. “You’re not high-maintenance. You’re disaster-prepared.”
Dolly pointed at her. “That’s right. Some people keep bottled water and batteries. I keep lipstick and a backup wig. If the world’s ending, I still want to look like Dolly Parton when it does.”
Wendy sat back, delighted. “Iconic.”
Dolly smiled, sweet and sharp at the same time. “Well, I worked too hard to look like this to let a little tremor catch me undone.”
Miley Cyrus said in a recent interview that she was contacted by Hollywood to play the role of Dolly Parton in a documentary movie in memory of Dolly Parton following her demise.
And she declined the request bashing the Hollywood that they always wanna take advantage of everything and they couldn’t even wait for her to finish mourning her god mother.
Accusing them of being manipulative.
And she yelled at them to allow her godmother rest in peace first.
After the devastating 2016 Tennessee wildfires, Dolly Parton provided families who had lost their homes with $1,000 a month for five months. When she returned to distribute the final payments, she surprised nearly 900 families with an additional $5,000 each, bringing the total assistance to $10,000 per family.
Following the 2016 Gatlinburg wildfires, Dolly Parton’s My People Fund gave affected families $1,000 a month for five months to help them recover and rebuild. When she arrived to personally distribute the final checks, she surprised nearly 900 families with an additional $5,000, bringing the total direct cash assistance to $10,000 per household.
🔙| In 2016, Dolly Parton praised Taylor Swift for always being one of the first to support good causes. 🤍
“Taylor, I noticed through the years, she’s the first to throw herself right into any good cause. Any time anything happens, she’s there to make big donations and offer time and money. I’m so thankful to her. I just think she’s precious.”
Taylor Swift donated $50K to Ashley Taunton’s GoFundMe.
Ashley, a nurse and mother of three, was struck by a vehicle while helping teenagers whose car had hydroplaned on a rainy day.
“Wishing you the best recovery possible and sending love to your family!
Taylor”
Ashley Taunton, who was injured while helping teenagers after their car hydroplaned, thanking Taylor Swift for her $50K GoFundMe donation🥹:
“How is this even real 😭 Thank you, I’m speechless. Taylor Swift, you are an incredible human.
Sobbing with so much gratitude! Wish I could hug you IRL what a beautiful human you are! God bless you!”
Ashley Taunton stopped on I-95 in a rainstorm to help after a crash, then pushed someone clear of a hydroplaning car and took the impact. I gave to help Joe and their 3 kids through 2 surgeries. Grateful they're past halfway. Donate via her GoFundMe page. https://t.co/Rdg68G17Ju
Dolly Parton says she once went through a period so dark, she understood why people turn to drugs and alcohol.
“Yes, I went through a bad period of time back in the ’80s when I was going through the change. I was having some female problems, family problems, emotional problems, and I was overweight. I didn’t feel good about myself at all, so I got myself in a pretty bad bind.”
“I understood at that moment how people get on drugs, how people get on alcohol, and how people can commit suicide. I didn’t do that because I kept praying, holding on to God, and hanging on to my friends.”
“No business thing has ever been able to get me that depressed. It has to be something very personal, either family or something during that middle-age change of life, when your hormones and everything are different.”
“I did have a very hard time, but God, praying, friends, and just trying to hang on helped me. Being Dolly, just being me, I thought, ‘Hey, either get off your fat ass and do something about it, or go ahead and blow your head off.’ And I thought, ‘Nah, I ain’t gonna do that.’”
“I believe God meant for me to go through that so I could completely feel for other people about everything.”
Dolly Parton struggled with severe endometriosis, which led to her once passing out on stage. She had a hysterectomy in her early 30s. But she never stopped loving and helping kids.