Dolly Parton has released a video, telling fans “I’m not dying”, a day after her sister asked for the public to pray for her, sparking concerns about the US country star’s health.
“I know lately everybody thinks that I’m sicker than I am. Do I look sick to you? I’m working hard,” the musician said in a video posted on Instagram on Wednesday, which she filmed while shooting commercials for the Grand Ole Opry music venue in Nashville.
The video came after her sister apologised for scaring fans in her initial Facebook post about Parton’s health.
Parton, 79, was recently forced to pull out of a Dollywood event after being diagnosed with a kidney stone.
In her video, Parton thanked fans for their prayers, and explained that “I didn’t take care of myself” after her husband died earlier this year.
“So I let a lot of things go that I should have been taking care of,” she said. “So anyway, when I got around to it, the doctors said ‘we need to take care of this’ and ‘we need to take care of that’. Nothing major, but I did have to cancel some things.”
Parton also laughed about an AI photo she had seen, which shows fellow country star Reba McEntire at her death bed.
“We
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