Watch: Dolly Parton Was Hospitalized 4 Days Before Her Death at 80Looking like Dolly Parton was more than a 9-to-5 job.”When I arrived in L.A. in the ’80s, I started sleeping with my makeup on, partly because of the earthquakes,” the 11-time Grammy winner wrote in her 2023 memoir Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones. “I thought, ‘I’m not heading out on the streets without makeup in case there are cameras out there! I’m going to be ready to go!'”And she stuck with that nighttime routine long after she and husband Carl Dean moved back to Tennessee, noting, “I don’t want to go to bed looking like a hag with Carl.”We can’t even imagine the iconic entertainer, who has died at the age of 80, going to her final resting place looking anything less than perfectly put together, either.But while her look was unapologetically unnatural, the “Jolene” singer said time and again that what you saw on stage represents who she really was.”Much as the fictional characters that populate my songs uncover essential truths about me and the people I’ve known, my clothes and makeup also reveal the real me,” she wrote in her book. “Maybe they’re both ‘made… Read More
