Dolly Parton Updates Fans on ‘Serious Business’ About Her Health

• Dolly Parton shared a brand new well being replace with followers in an Instagram video.
• Although she didn’t specify precisely what well being points she’s dealing with, Parton famous earlier challenges along with her kidney well being in addition to weakened immune and digestive techniques.
• The nation music legend additionally revealed that medicine negative effects compelled her to cancel her upcoming Las Vegas reveals.

Dolly Parton shared “some excellent news, and a bit of unhealthy information,” about her well being in an Instagram reel posted throughout her numerous social media accounts on Might 4.

“The excellent news is, I’m responding very well to meds and coverings, and I’m bettering day by day,” the nation music icon mentioned.

Parton, 80, didn’t specify precisely what she’s being handled for, however she famous that she’s “all the time had issues with my kidney stones,” joking that “they dig extra stones out of me a yr than the rock quarry in Rockwood, Tennessee.”

She additional elaborated that her immune and digestive techniques “bought all out of whack over the previous three years,” and that her care staff is “working actual exhausting on rebuilding and strengthening these.”

She additionally apologized to followers for needing to cancel her beforehand postponed Las Vegas reveals “as a result of among the meds and coverings make me a bit of bit swimmy-headed … and naturally, I can’t be dizzy carrying round banjos, guitars and such on five-inch heels.”

The brand new replace comes solely eight months after Parton initially announced on Instagram that she wanted to postpone her Las Vegas concert events as a result of “well being challenges” she was dealing with that might require “a couple of procedures.”

Nevertheless, regardless of the “severe enterprise” of her present well being, Parton assured followers that she is “doing very well” and has “nice medical doctors” who advised her “all the things I’ve is treatable.”

Although Parton mentioned “it’s going to take me a short time earlier than I’m as much as stage-performance degree,” she hopes to be “as much as snuff once more quickly” and intends to proceed working throughout her restoration.

“The reality is, I’m nonetheless working. I nonetheless do movies. I nonetheless report. I run up and all the way down to Dollywood every now and then,” Parton mentioned.

She additionally famous that she’s “working exhausting on getting my museum and my lodge open in Nashville later this yr,” in addition to “spending lots of time writing and transforming” her upcoming Broadway musical, Dolly: A True Unique Musical, which is about to open in “fall or early winter” of 2026.

Parton additionally thanked followers for the outpouring of affection and help she obtained following the demise of her husband, Carl Dean.

Dean, who married Parton in 1966 and largely stayed out of the general public highlight all through their decades-long marriage, handed away on March 3, 2025, on the age of 82.

“A number of you’ve been involved about me and Carl, and also you had been so nice about that,” she mentioned within the video. “I’ll all the time love him, and I’ll all the time miss him, however you’d be stunned at how a lot your love and concern meant to me throughout that point.”

“From the underside of my coronary heart, I thanks,” she continued. “You may have been an enormous a part of my therapeutic.”

Regardless of the challenges she’s confronted, Parton advised followers she stays optimistic concerning the future and grateful for the help she continues to obtain, noting within the video’s caption, “I’ve nonetheless bought some therapeutic to do, however I’m on my manner!”

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