{"id":50813,"date":"2026-09-29T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=50813"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:43:36","slug":"reba-mcentire-missed-dolly-partons-final-call-before-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/reba-mcentire-missed-dolly-partons-final-call-before-her-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Reba McEntire Missed Dolly Parton\u2019s Final Call Before Her Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Reba McEntire<\/strong> has opened up about missing a call from Dolly Parton shortly before Parton&#8217;s death on August 25, following a brief battle with cancer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McEntire told ET she was in a meeting when Parton called in late July and was unable to reach her afterward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I tried to get back in touch with her and I couldn&#8217;t, never made a connection. And then when my buddy called me and said, &#8216;Dolly&#8217;s gone,&#8217; I thought, &#8216;I&#8217;ll never know why she called me.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The two collaborated on &#8220;Does He Love You&#8221; in 2021 and co-hosted the 2019 CMA Awards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McEntire later performed a tribute at the Emmys and posted a heartfelt farewell on X, writing, &#8220;There will never ever be another you.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reba McEntire Missed Dolly Parton&#039;s Final Call, But Will Find Out Why She Wanted to Talk &#039;One Day&#039;\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F7md6CRned8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reba McEntire has opened up about missing a call from Dolly Parton shortly before Parton&#8217;s death on August 25, following a brief battle with cancer. McEntire told ET she was in a meeting when Parton called in late July and was unable to reach her afterward. &#8220;I tried to get back in touch with her","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":34498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[305,3315,2988,83,84,720],"class_list":["post-50813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cma-awards","tag-does-he-love-you","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-reba","tag-reba-mcentire"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-06 07:48:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/reba-mcentire-missed-dolly-partons-final-call-before-her-death\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50814,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50813\/revisions\/50814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}