Miley Cyrus is giving followers an replace on her godmother, Dolly Parton, amid the legendary nation music singer’s latest well being troubles.
“She’s all the time going to maintain the present going — the present should go on — so she’s simply excited to get again to work,” Cyrus, 33, instructed Leisure Tonight whereas attending the Los Angeles premiere of Avatar: Hearth and Ash final week.
Again in September, the enduring nation star introduced she was compelled to push again her Las Vegas reveals by practically a yr attributable to her well being.
“I need the followers and public to listen to immediately from me that, sadly, I might want to postpone my upcoming Las Vegas concert events,” Parton, 79, mentioned in a written assertion shared by way of Instagram on the time. “As a lot of , I’ve been coping with some well being challenges, and my medical doctors inform me that I should have a number of procedures. I joked with them, it should be time for my 100,000-mile check-up, though it’s not the standard journey to see my plastic surgeon!”
She continued, “In all seriousness, given this, I’m not going to have the ability to rehearse and put collectively the present that I need you to see, and the present that you simply need to see. You pay good cash to see me carry out, and I wish to be at my greatest for you.”
Days later, Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, sparked concern amongst followers when she requested the individuals who love her sister to wish for Dolly.
“Final night time, I used to be up all night time praying for my sister, Dolly,” Freida wrote by way of Fb on October 7. “A lot of she hasn’t been feeling her greatest recently. I actually imagine within the energy of prayer, and I’ve been led to ask the entire world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me.”
She continued on the time, “She’s robust, she’s cherished, and with all of the prayers being lifted for her, I do know in my coronary heart she’s going to be simply positive. Godspeed, my foolish Dolly. All of us love you.”

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Within the wake of her regarding put up, Freida once more took to social media to make clear her remarks and guarantee followers that her sister was OK.
“I wish to clear one thing up. I didn’t imply to scare anybody or make it sound so critical when asking for prayers for Dolly,” Freida wrote by way of Instagram. “She’s been a little bit below the climate, and I merely requested for prayers as a result of I imagine so strongly within the energy of prayer. It was nothing greater than a little bit sister asking for prayers for her massive sister. Thanks all for lifting her up. Your love actually makes a distinction.”
A day later, the singer’s rep additionally labored to guarantee followers that she was positive.
“It’s simply the kidney stones, and the process she must resolve these,” Olly Rowland, Dolly’s supervisor, instructed the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal. “It appears to be like like her sister posted, and it received fairly a bit blown out of proportion, weirdly.”
Us Weekly reached out to Dolly’s publicist on the time for additional remark.
Dolly herself then reassured followers that she shouldn’t be, in truth, “dying.”
“I wanna say one thing,” the singer started by way of a two-minute social media video shared on October 8. “Effectively, at present’s October the eighth and, clearly, I’m right here doing a little commercials for the Grand Ole Opry, which is why I’m dressed kinda like a rustic western woman.”
She continued, “However earlier than I received began I wished to say I do know recently all people thinks that I’m sicker than I’m. Do I look sick to you? I’m working onerous right here. Anyway, I wished to place all people’s thoughts comfy, these of you that appear to be actual involved, which I recognize. And I recognize your prayers ’trigger I’m an individual of religion. I can all the time use the prayers for something and every thing. However I need you to know that I’m OK.”
