Browsing: Stella Parton

In her first interview since Dolly Parton’s death, Stella Parton told CBS Mornings that the last thing her sister asked her for was prayer – and that Dolly kept her cancer from much of the family so nobody would worry.

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.

Two days after Dolly Parton’s death at 80, her sister Stella revealed that the singer had said she wanted her medical team to try experimental drugs on her if there was no hope left — in the hope of helping others in the future.