ShivamRestored Her Home
Parton is very close to the home very she first started writing songs and singing. She still remembers the small old cabin where she used to live with her siblings. This was the reason why she decided to get it restored.When she appeared on The Nate Berkus Show she said, “My brother Bobby is a great carpenter. He worked on it and restored it. What we tried to do was make it look like it did when we lived there, but we wanted it to be functional. So I spent a couple million dollars making it look like I spent $50 on it! Even like in the bathroom, I made the bathroom so it looked like an outdoor toilet.”
Part-Time Streaker?
Surely, Dolly knows how to have fun, even if it goes to a very extreme level. She narrated an incident in which she along with friend Judy were competing with each other to flash something at every stop sign.Left with only one option to win, she decided to do something outrageous.She said, “I opened up the door and I started walkin’ around the car in the moonlight,” Parton told Rolling Stone, “…then it was like I was immediately exposed! It was like nothing had mattered until then. Then all of a sudden I realized I was naked. I was so embarrassed, but feelin’ so proud that I had done it.”
First Feature Film
Despite the fact that she had been offered many roles in films, she decided to act in the film 9 to 5 for the very first time. She said, “I knew instantly that I should do it – I knew that it was a career move… [Jane Fonda] wanted me, and she wanted Lily. She said she was drivin’ down the freeway, and a song of mine came on the radio, and she knew my personality, and she’d been a fan of my songwriting for a long time.”
The Most “Dolly” Way
Dolly believes in giving her all when it came to her career. So, when it was the turn to act in her first film, she left no stone unturned and memorized the whole script in order to gain perfection. She told Rolling Stone, “It was so funny, ’cause I didn’t know exactly what the movies were all about; I just knew that I would do it as good as anybody else. I just assumed they would start in the front and follow the story to keep up the excitement, so I memorized the whole script.”
Made A Statement
Things went a little controversial when Parton reunited with her first film’s co-stars. What they said was all over the news the next day. They said,“Back in 1980, we refused to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot… And in 2017, we STILL refuse to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying hypocritical bigot!” The fact is that it was her co-stars Fonda and Tomlin who said these words, whereas Dolly stayed silent.
Voted For Donald Trump?
Since then it has become a routine for media to speculate about the candidate for which Parton voted. Due to her silence on the stage during the whole episode, many believe that she voted for Trump. Parton took a clear stand on it and said that they were not referring to the current political scenario.