Dolly Parton ‘going to be simply fantastic’, singer’s sister says as she requires prayers amid well being issues | Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton’s sister says she has been “up all evening praying” for the singer as she continues to cope with unspecified well being issues.

Freida Parton wrote that her 79-year-old sister “hasn’t been feeling her finest these days”, two weeks after the singer postponed a Las Vegas residency scheduled for December, citing “well being challenges”.

“Final evening, I used to be up all evening praying for my sister, Dolly,” Freida Parton wrote on Fb.

“Lots of you understand she hasn’t been feeling her finest these days. I really imagine within the energy of prayer, and I’ve been result in ask the entire world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me.

“She’s sturdy, she’s beloved, and with all of the prayers being lifted for her, I do know in my coronary heart she’s going to be simply fantastic. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. All of us love you!”

Parton was resulting from start Dolly: Dwell in Las Vegas, the singer’s first prolonged run of concert events within the metropolis in 32 years, on the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on 4 December nevertheless it has been rescheduled for September 2026.

The singer introduced that she has “been coping with some well being challenges, and my medical doctors inform me that I will need to have a number of procedures”.

She didn’t give particulars however added light-heartedly: “As I joked with them, it should be time for my 100,000-mile checkup, though it’s not the same old journey to see my plastic surgeon!”

She continued: “In all seriousness, given this, I’m not going to have the ability to rehearse and put collectively the present that I need you to see, and the present that you just need to see. You pay good cash to see me carry out, and I need to be at my finest for you … I simply want somewhat time to get present prepared, as they are saying.

“And don’t fear about me quittin’ the enterprise as a result of God hasn’t stated something about stopping but. However, I imagine He’s telling me to decelerate proper now so I might be prepared for extra huge adventures with all of you. I like you and thanks for understanding.”

Requested about the potential of retirement in an interview final yr, Parton informed the Guardian: “Oh, my Lord, I can’t retire. I all the time say I’ve dreamed myself right into a nook. I’ve acquired to maintain all these goals alive. Each dream spins off into some one thing else … I couldn’t retire if I wished to. And I don’t need to.”

Parton’s husband of almost 60 years, Carl Dean, died aged 82 in March.