{"id":36852,"date":"2026-09-25T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=36852"},"modified":"2026-09-25T06:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:57:59","slug":"willie-nelson-says-he-had-no-idea-dolly-parton-was-sick-before-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/willie-nelson-says-he-had-no-idea-dolly-parton-was-sick-before-her-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson Says He Had \u2018No Idea\u2019 Dolly Parton Was Sick Before Her Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Willie Nelson says he had no clue how sick Dolly Parton was the last time they were together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Willie was talking to CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper during a recent interview ahead of Farm Aid 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I had no idea. I did an interview with her shortly before that, and she seemed fine.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Nelson also revealed he recently recorded his own version of Parton&#8217;s classic &#8220;I Will Always Love You&#8221; as a tribute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cnn\/video\/7688921404342799629\" data-video-id=\"7688921404342799629\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\"> <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@cnn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cnn?refer=embed\">@cnn<\/a> <p>CNN&#8217;s @Anderson Cooper sits down with Willie Nelson before his show in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Willie reminisced about his friendship with the late Dolly Parton.<\/p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - CNN\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7688921362417339149?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; CNN<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson says he had no clue how sick Dolly Parton was the last time they were together. Willie was talking to CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper during a recent interview ahead of Farm Aid 2026. &#8220;I had no idea. I did an interview with her shortly before that, and she seemed fine.&#8221; Nelson also revealed he","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7740,7633,3011,102,971,2251,661],"class_list":["post-36852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-anderson-cooper","tag-cnn","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-farm-aid","tag-i-will-always-love-you","tag-willie-nelson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-05 05:52:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/willie-nelson-says-he-had-no-idea-dolly-parton-was-sick-before-her-death\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852","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=36852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36853,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852\/revisions\/36853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}