Dolly Parton has declared she "ain't dormant yet" aft her sister raised concerns astir the singer's wellness by asking radical to commune for her.
"There are conscionable a batch of rumours flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you'd cognize that I was okay," the 79-year-old singer said successful a caller two-minute video posted connected societal media.
"I'm not acceptable to dice yet. I don't deliberation God is done with me. And I ain't done working," she added.
In the footage, captioned "I ain't dormant yet!", the 9 to 5 vocalist is seen connected a acceptable speaking straight to the camera.
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On Tuesday, a Facebook station shared by her sister Freida Parton escalated concerns astir Parton's health erstwhile she wrote that she had been "up each nighttime praying for my sister, Dolly".
Hours later, Freida Parton followed up with a clarification. "I privation to wide thing up. I didn't mean to scare anyone oregon marque it dependable truthful superior erstwhile asking for prayers for Dolly," she wrote.
"She's been a small nether the weather, and I simply asked for prayers due to the fact that I judge truthful powerfully successful the powerfulness of prayer."
Last month, Parton postponed her archetypal Las Vegas residency successful 32 years, citing "health challenges".
She was scheduled to execute six shows astatine The Colosseum astatine Caesars Palace successful December. The dates person been moved to adjacent September
Parton offered her ain clarification astir her wellness information successful Wednesday's video.
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"Everyone thinks that I americium sicker than I am. Do I look sick to you? I'm moving hard here! Anyway, I wanted to enactment everybody's caput astatine ease, those of you who look to beryllium existent concerned, which I appreciate," she continued.
"And I admit your prayers due to the fact that I'm a idiosyncratic of faith. I tin ever usage the prayers for thing and everything."
She besides referenced her precocious hubby of astir 60 years Carl Dean who died earlier this year astatine the property of 82.
"I privation you to cognize that I'm OK. I've got immoderate problems arsenic I've mentioned. Back erstwhile my hubby Carl was precise sick, that was for a agelong time, and past erstwhile helium passed, I didn't instrumentality attraction of myself. So I fto a batch of things spell that I should've been taking attraction of," she said.
"So anyway, erstwhile I got astir to it, the doc said: 'We request to instrumentality attraction of this. We request to instrumentality attraction of that.' Nothing major, but I did person to cancel immoderate things truthful I could beryllium person to home, person to Vanderbilt, wherever I'm benignant of having a fewer treatments present and there."
And successful existent Parton fashion, she ended with a joke: "I wanted you to cognize that I'm not dying".