{"id":31891,"date":"2025-05-11T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=31891"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:52:30","slug":"dolly-parton-still-emotional-about-late-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-videos\/2025\/05\/dolly-parton-still-emotional-about-late-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Still Emotional About Late Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent appearance on Today, Dolly Parton recounted her emotional experience after attending a parade at Dollywood following the recent passing of her husband, Carl Dean.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on a heartwarming encounter with a young fan during the parade, the country music icon expressed feeling overwhelmed by a mix of emotions at the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJust getting to see the reaction and feeling all that love. I got very emotional that day after the parade because there was just so much love like that and it was right after I had lost Carl.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parton revealed that she still gets \u201cvery emotional\u201d when people bring up Dean\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe were together 60 years. I\u2019ve loved him since I was 18 years old, and it\u2019s a big adjustment just trying to change patterns and habits. I\u2019ll do fine. I\u2019m very involved in my work and that\u2019s been the best thing that could happen to me. But I\u2019ll always miss him, of course, and I\u2019ll always love him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wC8wIXNn_co\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Admits She\u2019s Still \u201cVery Emotional\u201d About Late Husband Carl Dean","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":28913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3124,3011,102,2100,711],"class_list":["post-31891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-videos","tag-carl-dean","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-husband","tag-today-show"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 00:26:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-videos\/2025\/05\/dolly-parton-still-emotional-about-late-husband\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}