Reba McEntire Calls Out AI Dolly Parton Deathbed Hoax, Sends Love & Prayers

“You inform ’em, Dolly, that AI mess has acquired us doing all types of loopy issues. You’re on the market dying, I am out right here having a child,” stated McEntire, 70, in an Instagram video shared on Thursday.

“Nicely, each of us know I am too younger and you’re too previous for any of that type of nonsense,” she added. “You higher know I’m praying for you. I like you with all my coronary heart, and I can not wait to see you quickly.”

The priority over Parton’s well being began after Dolly’s sister, Freida Parton, 68, lately took to Fb to ask her followers to hope for the “Jolene” singer. 

“Final evening, I used to be up all evening praying for my sister, Dolly,” Freida wrote on Tuesday. “A lot of she hasn’t been feeling her greatest currently. I really imagine within the energy of prayer, and I’ve been (led) to ask all the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me.”

After the put up, followers of all ages eagerly despatched the singer their well-wishes. But, the silence from Parton and her household exacerbated the nervous power on social media, inflicting customers to imagine the worst. 

However on Wednesday, the “9 to five” singer herself took to Instagram to handle all claims, sharing a video of herself dwell and nicely.

“Nicely, at present is October the eighth, and clearly I am right here,” she acknowledged. “I do know currently everyone thinks I am sicker than I’m, do I look sick to you? I’m working laborious right here.”

“In any case, I needed to place everyone’s thoughts comfortable, I recognize your prayers,” defined Parton whereas on a break from filming commercials for Grand Ole Opry. “I need you to know that I’m okay.”

Parton described that after her husband, Carl Thomas Dean, handed away in March of this yr, she “didn’t deal with [herself].”

These well being considerations prompted her physician to make suggestions to stay nearer to residence.