Dolly Parton's Private Battle

Dolly Parton's niece says she kept her cancer diagnosis private for a reason.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dolly Parton kept her cancer diagnosis private because she didn't
want to worry about or she didn't want to worry
people or have people worry about her. This is what
her niece, Jada Starr, says. It wasn't revealed. Remember, it's
the public until after her death and the type of
cancer we still don't know. And she says that Dolly
kept it real private, didn't want to worry anyone. And

(00:20):
she was also in shock, says losing her aunt was
really difficult, very surreal, adding, I can't remember a life
without her. But she knows Dolly would be telling them now,
start drying it up and start getting back to work
and love each other real hard just days after her death.
Her niece helped honor her at the Grand Ole Opry
by performing The Orchard, a song they had previously recorded together.

(00:40):
And I have so many more plans to tell you
guys in the coming days about what she has planned
for us to give us a treat after she is gone.
And she just, she cared so much about her fans,
about the world. And obviously her charitable things that she's
done are still changing the world. So RIP Miss Dolly.