Dolly Parton has charmed many reporters over the course of her career. The singer is professional, full of stories, and quick to crack a joke, making her a solid interview subject. While Parton said she generally values her relationship with the press, there are certain interviews that have bothered her.
One reporter made her particularly angry with just a sentence. Dolly Parton did not appreciate what 1 reporter wrote about her As Parton’s fan base grew throughout the 1970s, she gave more interviews to sources outside the country music sphere in Nashville. Some reporters, upon hearing her accent, tried to stylize it in the text of the interview.
Parton couldn’t stand seeing this . “A horrendous writer in Green Bay tried to write a negative piece, but it didn’t come off,” reporter Dave Hershey said in the book Dolly by Alanna Nash. “The woman quoted Dolly as saying ‘Ah’ for ‘I,’ and Dolly got a little rankled at that.
She said, ‘She tried to make me sound like a country bumpkin.’” There was another part of the article that angered Parton even more . It affected her for the rest of the day.
“But there was a line in the story that really angered her,” Hershey said. “The woman wrote, ‘Dolly Parton is so sweet you’d almost hope she had a cocaine stash somewhere.’ My wife showed the piece to her, and she was livid for the rest of the day.
This was nothing except a woman trying to be clever at Dolly’s expense, but Dolly said, ‘This is the n.