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Dolly Parton has plenty of ideas for new music, but those ideas will have to wait.
The 79-year-old country music icon is still mourning the loss of her husband Carl Dean, who passed away on March 3 at the age of 82. He and Parton were married for nearly six decades.
During a July 9 appearance on Khloé Kardashian’s “Khloé In Wonder Land” podcast, Parton revealed that her husband’s death is keeping her away from music.
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“I can’t do it right now because I got so many other things that I can’t afford the luxury of getting that emotional right now,” she said of the projects she wanted to start, but couldn’t.
“I’ll write something else, though, if it comes. I’m just putting that all on hold,” she added.
Parton’s admission comes four months after she confirmed the death of her husband, whom she had been married to since 1966.
“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy,” Parton wrote in a March 3 Instagram post.
Three days later, Parton released her newest song, “If You Hadn’t Been There.”
“I fell in love with Carl Dean when I was 18 years old. We have spent 60 precious and meaningful years together. Like all great love stories, they never end,” she wrote on Instagram March 6.
“They live on in memory and song,” she continued. “He will always be the star of my life story, and I dedicate this song to him.”
While she won’t be writing any new music in the near future, Parton recently celebrated the launch of a new line of Southern-inspired frozen, single-serve meals and sides with Conagra.
She’s also slated for a six-show residency in Las Vegas at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace from Dec. 4 to 13 and is releasing her newest book, “Star of the Show: My Life on Stage,” on Nov. 11.
Parton reveals the secret to her 59-year marriage to Dean
While talking to Kardashian, Parton revealed why her and Dean made such a perfect pair.
“I have to be out in the public and I belong to the public, but I am such a private person and my husband was, as well,” she explained.
Parton joked that they “were so good for each other because he’s a total loner.”
“And that was the thing with us,” she continued. “We could just be in the house all day and say two or three words, didn’t matter. Or we could talk all afternoon and lay in bed, talk at night, in the dark.”
She later opened up about the lengths her husband would go to to avoid attention from her fans.
“My husband did not want to be out there. He never did an interview in his life,” she told Kardashian.
Parton said her fans would see her husband mowing the lawn on his tractor and ask if he was Parton’s husband, to which he would reply, “Do I look like I’d be Dolly Parton’s husband?”
She also revealed the moment she knew it was best to keep her husband away from the media.
The year was 1966 and Parton had just won song of the year and a BMI award — the same year she married Dean.
According to her official website, Parton’s song “Put It Off Until Tomorrow,” which was co-written with her Uncle Bill, won BMI's Song Of The Year in 1966.
Parton and Dean married on May 30, 1966. He was 21 and she was 18 at the time.
To celebrate her musical success, Parton said she “begged” Dean to attend the BMI awards that year — and he did, despite not wanting to.
“He rented a tuxedo. Didn’t want to do it,” she said. “And then when we were leaving that, he started taking (the tuxedo) off, taking off the jacket.”
“And he said, ‘Now I want you to do great, but don’t ever ask me to go to another one of these (darn) things because I ain’t going,” she added.
“And he never did. And I knew right then that I’m just going to keep him private as best I can,” she continued.
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Parton went on to clarify that her husband was “very proud” of her and they got along so well because they never had anything to fight over.
