Jada Star says her aunt concealed her illness because “she never wanted to worry anybody” — a decision that shaped a year of public reassurance before Parton’s death at 80.
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Dolly Parton has died peacefully in Nashville at 80, her family announced in a video posted to her own Instagram account. No cause of death was given.
Dolly Parton has given her most direct account yet of the health problems that have kept her off stage, telling People she let them slide while caring for her husband Carl Dean before his death in March 2025.