Abdominal bleeding in the early ’80 s result in a partial hysterectomy for Parton, significance she had actually never ever have kids. “God has a plan for everything,” she stated in a 2017 Today reveal interview, putting that completely favorable Parton point of view on the circumstance. “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 exposed in the 2017 book Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters With Dolly Parton, she ‘d confessed that the marital relationship was “totally open and free,” according to excerpts acquired by the DailyMail But that openness caused a trick “affair of the heart” and “it just about killed me,” she shared.
She wasn’t overemphasizing, either. The heartbreak was so uncomfortable that Parton exposed she when considered taking her own 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 stated, per the Daily 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.”
