Dolly Parton Assures Fans She’s ‘OK’ Amid Health Rumors: ‘Do I Look Sick to You?!’

“I don’t deliberation God is done with maine and I ain’t done workin’,” Country Music Hall of Famer Dolly Parton said successful a video connected Oct. 8, arsenic she reassured fans who person been disquieted astir the singer.

The video comes aft online rumors had been spreading regarding the 79-year-old singer’s health.

“I privation to accidental something,” Parton said successful the video. “Well, today’s Oct. 8 and evidently I’m present doing immoderate commercials for the Grand Ole Opry, which is wherefore I’m dressed kinda similar a country-western girl, but earlier I got started, I wanted to say, I cognize lately, everybody thinks that I americium sicker than I americium … bash I look sick to you?! I’m workin’ hard here.”

“Anyway, I wanted to enactment everybody’s caput astatine ease, those of you that look to beryllium existent concerned, which I appreciate,” she said, noting that she appreciated fans’ prayers.

She went connected to stress that that she’s doing good for now, though she does person immoderate wellness issues to address. “I privation you to cognize that I’m OK,” Parton continued. “I’ve got immoderate problems arsenic I mentioned. Back erstwhile my hubby Carl was precise sick, that was for a agelong time, and past erstwhile helium passed, I didn’t instrumentality attraction of myself. I fto a batch of things spell that I I should’ve been takin’ attraction of, truthful anyhow erstwhile I got astir to it, the doc said, ‘We request to instrumentality attraction of this, we request to instrumentality attraction of that.’ Nothin’ major, but I did person to cancel immoderate things truthful I could beryllium person to home, person to Vanderbilt, wherever I’m kinda havin’ a fewer treatments present and there.”

“But I wanted you to cognize that I’m not dying,” she added. “There’s conscionable a batch of rumors flyin’ astir and I figured if you heard it from me, you’d cognize that I was OK.”

Parton’s beloved hubby Carl Dean died earlier this twelvemonth astatine property 82. In September, Parton revealed that she is postponing her Las Vegas residency astatine The Colosseum astatine Caesars Palace owed to immoderate wellness challenges. The residency had been acceptable to commencement successful December, but is present slated to statesman successful 2026.

“In each seriousness, fixed this, I americium not going to beryllium capable to rehearse and enactment unneurotic the amusement that I privation you to see, and the amusement that you merit to see,” Parton had said successful a societal media connection connected Sept. 28. “You wage bully wealth to spot maine perform, and I privation to beryllium astatine my champion for you. While I’ll inactive beryllium capable to enactment connected each of my projects from present successful Nashville, I conscionable request a small clip to get amusement ready, arsenic they say.”

The rumors astir her wellness kicked into precocious cogwheel connected Oct. 7 aft ...