Watch: Dolly Parton, Country Music Legend, Dead at 80More insight into Dolly Parton’s final days are coming to light. Days before the country icon’s family confirmed she had died Aug. 25 at age 80, she was hospitalized, multiple outlets confirmed. On the morning of Aug. 21, the outlets reported, Parton was admitted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.E! News reached out to reps for Parton but has not yet heard back. Parton had admitted she was “going through some hard times” with her health in an interview with People published that same day, but was optimistic about her recovery.“I think because we live in a 24/7 world with social media, everything gets magnified in ways it wasn’t years ago,” she posited. “I used to joke that I was the Queen of the Tabloids, but now I guess I can say I’m the Queen of Social Media AI! Seriously, though, even though I’m still healin’, I’m still workin.’”readDolly Parton’s Final Wish to Be Buried in Plush Cotton RevealedIndeed, at the time of her death, Parton—whose husband Carl Thomas Dean died in March 2025—was busy with the opening of her SongTeller Hotel in Nashville, as well as the impending rollout of her coffee… Read More
