{"id":32161,"date":"2025-05-05T04:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/uncategorized\/2025\/05\/dolly-parton-shares-how-her-life-has-changed-since-her-husbands-death\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T04:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:27:41","slug":"dolly-parton-shares-how-her-life-has-changed-since-her-husbands-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/dolly-parton-shares-how-her-life-has-changed-since-her-husbands-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Shares How Her Life Has Changed Since Her Husband&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong>\u00a0recently sat down with the\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Today&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0show and talked about the grief she feels over the loss of her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebrother.com\/tcs\/story\/187352\"><strong>husband<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of nearly 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;I loved him since I was 18 years old.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a big adjustment, just trying to change patterns and habits.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll do fine.\u00a0 I&#8217;m very involved in my work, and that&#8217;s been the best thing that could have happened to me.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ll always miss him of course, and I&#8217;ll always love him.\u00a0 He was a great partner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hosts went on to say how they were grieving with her, and that their love story has been an inspiration to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Dolly said, &#8220;I&#8217;m so thankful.\u00a0 I got so many letters, flowers from all over the world.\u00a0 I had no idea\u00a0<strong>Carl Dean<\/strong>\u00a0was so famous.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/dolly-parton-gets-emotional-talking-about-carl-dean-after-his-death-11726955\"><strong>People<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(You can check out part of that interview,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/dolly-parton-gets-emotional-talking-about-carl-dean-after-his-death-11726955\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 And you can read more about the tribute song Dolly released in memory of her husband,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebrother.com\/tcs\/story\/187509\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JPzwXz1RX4s\">If You Hadn&#8217;t Been There<\/a>&#8220;.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly talks about Carl","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":28969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 15:45:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/dolly-parton-shares-how-her-life-has-changed-since-her-husbands-death\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}