Dolly Parton Updates Fans on ‘Serious Business’ About Her Health

• Dolly Parton shared a brand new well being replace with followers in an Instagram video.
• Although she didn’t specify precisely what well being points she’s dealing with, Parton famous earlier challenges along with her kidney well being in addition to weakened immune and digestive techniques.
• The nation music legend additionally revealed that remedy uncomfortable side effects compelled her to cancel her upcoming Las Vegas exhibits.

Dolly Parton shared “some excellent news, and somewhat dangerous information,” about her well being in an Instagram reel posted throughout her numerous social media accounts on Might 4.

“The excellent news is, I’m responding very well to meds and coverings, and I’m enhancing on daily basis,” the nation music icon stated.

Parton, 80, didn’t specify precisely what she’s being handled for, however she famous that she’s “all the time had issues with my kidney stones,” joking that “they dig extra stones out of me a yr than the rock quarry in Rockwood, Tennessee.”

She additional elaborated that her immune and digestive techniques “received all out of whack over the previous three years,” and that her care staff is “working actual arduous on rebuilding and strengthening these.”

She additionally apologized to followers for needing to cancel her beforehand postponed Las Vegas exhibits “as a result of a number of the meds and coverings make me somewhat bit swimmy-headed … and naturally, I can’t be dizzy carrying round banjos, guitars and such on five-inch heels.”

The brand new replace comes solely eight months after Parton initially announced on Instagram that she wanted to postpone her Las Vegas live shows as a consequence of “well being challenges” she was dealing with that might require “a couple of procedures.”

Nonetheless, regardless of the “severe enterprise” of her present well being, Parton assured followers that she is “doing very well” and has “nice docs” who advised her “the whole lot I’ve is treatable.”

Although Parton stated “it’s going to take me a short time earlier than I’m as much as stage-performance stage,” she hopes to be “as much as snuff once more quickly” and intends to proceed working throughout her restoration.

“The reality is, I’m nonetheless working. I nonetheless do movies. I nonetheless file. I run up and all the way down to Dollywood every now and then,” Parton stated.

She additionally famous that she’s “working arduous on getting my museum and my lodge open in Nashville later this yr,” in addition to “spending a whole lot of time writing and remodeling” her upcoming Broadway musical, Dolly: A True Unique Musical, which is ready to open in “fall or early winter” of 2026.

Parton additionally thanked followers for the outpouring of affection and help she acquired following the loss of life of her husband, Carl Dean.

Dean, who married Parton in 1966 and largely stayed out of the general public highlight all through their decades-long marriage, handed away on March 3, 2025, on the age of 82.

“A whole lot of you’ve been involved about me and Carl, and also you have been so nice about that,” she stated within the video. “I’ll all the time love him, and I’ll all the time miss him, however you’d be shocked at how a lot your love and concern meant to me throughout that point.”

“From the underside of my coronary heart, I thanks,” she continued. “You will have been an enormous a part of my therapeutic.”

Regardless of the challenges she’s confronted, Parton advised followers she stays optimistic in regards to the future and grateful for the help she continues to obtain, noting within the video’s caption, “I’ve nonetheless received some therapeutic to do, however I’m on my method!”

It is a growing story. Test again quickly for extra updates.