Dolly Parton wants everyone know she’s fine and “not dying.”
“I wanted to say, I know lately everybody thinks that I’m sicker than I am,” Parton, 79, said in the video from a set where she was filming a commercial for the Grand Ole Opry. “Do I look sick to you? I’m workin’ hard here.”
Parton was set to perform six shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in December in her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years. Those concerts were rescheduled for September 2026.
Parton is one of the most-beloved musicians – likely even one of the most-beloved people – in the world.
She is a long-time best-selling songwriter and performer and actor. Her charitable works include helping underwrite Moderna’s vaccine for COVID-19. Her program that sends books to children has changed an untold number of lives; the Louisville chapter alone noted recently that it had just mailed its 500,000th book to a child.
In her video on Wednesday, Parton said she hoped that if her admirers “heard it from me, you’d know that I was ok.”
“I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me and I ain’t done workin’,” she added. “So I love you for caring and keep praying for me.”
