{"id":112896,"date":"2026-09-08T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=112896"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:56:41","slug":"dolly-parton-kept-cancer-battle-private-to-protect-fan-positivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/dolly-parton-kept-cancer-battle-private-to-protect-fan-positivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Kept Cancer Battle Private To Protect Fan Positivity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boomsite.fm\/dolly-parton-kept-cancer-battle-private-to-protect-fan-positivity-cousin-says?category=Country%2CFormat%20News\"><\/a><strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong>\u00a0deliberately kept her cancer diagnosis private, even from close family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s according to her first cousin Richie Owens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;She always kept things private because she always wanted to keep everybody being positive around her. Just, &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry about me, I&#8217;m going to be fine.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Owens, who co-wrote songs with Parton and produced two of her albums, said her burial beside late husband Carl Dean on August 28th was intentionally small and quiet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parton also requested mourners skip flowers and instead donate to her Imagination Library charity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her sister Stella described Parton&#8217;s public persona as &#8220;exactly who she was,&#8221; urging fans to &#8220;show more kindness&#8221; and &#8220;lift others up&#8221; to honor her legacy.<\/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=\"Richie Owens Reflects on Life and Career of Cousin Dolly Parton\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ljctEp6Oec4?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":"Dolly Parton\u00a0deliberately kept her cancer diagnosis private, even from close family members. That&#8217;s according to her first cousin Richie Owens. &#8220;She always kept things private because she always wanted to keep everybody being positive around her. Just, &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry about me, I&#8217;m going to be fine.&#8217;&#8221; Owens, who co-wrote songs with Parton and produced two","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":111815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[4885,12708,6008,498,12709,12710,1537],"class_list":["post-112896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cancer","tag-cousin","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-private","tag-richie-owens","tag-today-show"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-15 07:04:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/dolly-parton-kept-cancer-battle-private-to-protect-fan-positivity\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112897,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112896\/revisions\/112897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}