Dolly Parton’s Sister Freida Asks Fans for ‘Prayers’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Struggles: ‘Godspeed, My Sissy’

Dolly Parton has millions of fans keeping her successful their thoughts arsenic she faces issues with her health, and her sister Freida is starring the charge.

In a station shared Tuesday (Oct. 7) connected Facebook, Freida told followers that she had been “up each nighttime praying for my sister, Dolly.”

“Many of you cognize she hasn’t been feeling her champion lately,” the state icon’s sibling continued. “I genuinely judge successful the powerfulness of prayer, and I person been [led] to inquire each of the satellite that loves her to beryllium supplication warriors and commune with me. She’s strong, she’s loved, and with each the prayers being lifted for her, I cognize successful my bosom she’s going to beryllium conscionable fine.

“Godspeed, my sissy Dolly,” Freida added. “We each emotion you!”

The station comes a small much than a week aft Parton postponed her Las Vegas residency, citing “health challenges.”

“My doctors archer maine that I indispensable person a fewer procedures,” the 10-time Grammy victor wrote successful a connection astatine the time, sounding optimistic that she’ll instrumentality to the signifier soon. “As I joked with them, it indispensable beryllium clip for my 100,000-mile check-up, though it’s not the accustomed travel to spot my integrative surgeon!”

Parton had primitively been acceptable to execute successful Sin City passim the archetypal fractional of December, but the tally of shows volition present instrumentality spot successful September 2026. “I conscionable request a small clip to get amusement ready, arsenic they say,” she added successful her station announcing the delay. “And don’t interest astir maine quitting the concern due to the fact that God hasn’t said thing astir stopping yet.”

The Dollywood laminitis has surely flooded a batch this year. In summation to her wellness issues, Parton lost her husband of 60 years, with Carl Dean dying astatine the property of 82 successful March. Even so, the vocalist has enactment connected a beardown beforehand successful the look of grief, astatine 1 constituent offering up advice based connected her ain experiences erstwhile Brandon Blackstock — the erstwhile stepson of Reba McEntire and ex-husband of Kelly Clarkson — died successful August.

“I deliberation you conscionable person to beryllium grateful for the years that you’ve had with someone, and you conscionable effort to retrieve the precise champion of each that, and instrumentality their vigor that they had fixed you past and conscionable benignant of recycle that and fto that go a portion of you,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “Just grant their representation and cognize that they are successful a bette...