Belly bleeding within the early ’80s result in a partial hysterectomy for Parton, that means she’d by no means have children. “God has a plan for everything,” she mentioned in a 2017 Today present interview, placing that completely optimistic Parton perspective on the scenario. “I think it probably was his plan for me not to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine. And they are now.”
And as revealed within the 2017 guide Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters With Dolly Parton, she’d admitted that the wedding was “totally open and free,” in accordance with excerpts obtained by the Daily Mail. However that openness led to a secret “affair of the heart” and “it just about killed me,” she shared.
She wasn’t exaggerating, both. The heartbreak was so painful that Parton revealed she as soon as contemplated taking her personal life. “I was sitting upstairs in my bedroom one afternoon when I noticed in the nightstand drawer my gun that I keep for burglars. I looked at it a long time…Then, just as I picked it up, just to hold it and look at it for a moment, our little dog, Popeye, came running up the stairs,” she mentioned, per the Each day Mail. “The tap-tap-tap of his paws jolted me back to reality. I suddenly froze. I put the gun down. Then I prayed. I kinda believe Popeye was a spiritual messenger from God.”
She continued, “I don’t think I’d have done it, killed myself, but I can’t say for sure. Now that I’ve gone through that terrible moment, I can certainly understand the possibilities even for someone solid like me if the pain gets bad enough.”
