Dolly Parton and her husband Carl Thomas Dean have been married for 54 years.
After being together for more than 50 years, the 74-year-old singer joked that they are already sick of each other.
Dolly said on Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast: “My husband and I have been together for 57 years and married for 54, and I’m sick of him and I’m sure he’s sick of me.”
Dolly and Carl tied the knot in 1966 but she has kept him out of the public eye throughout their marriage.
The singer admitted that her husband has seen her perform only once as he rarely accompanies her to events to keep his privacy.
Sharing her vices in life, the Jolene hitmaker revealed: “My weaknesses have always been men, sex and food and not necessarily in that order.”
The country star used her time during the lockdown to work on her new album ‘A Holly Dolly Christmas.’
“I’d been wanting to do a Christmas album for a while. Timing is everything and I’ve always been lucky with timing,” she expressed.
“It was a good time. Yes I did write a lot of the new stuff when this whole thing started. I also had been writing a lot of other things.”
Dolly continued: “I just have to write what comes to me, and some things that don’t have to do with anything. An idea will come to me if it’s a love song, if it’s a happy song, if it’s a sad song.
“I think because I’ve been so emotional, and just being in tune with people and their sorrows with what’s going on and I’m a very emotional sensitive person and I just write all the time.
“It’s been great therapy for me. It’s been a great release for me feeling like I’m also being productive.”
The singer is also looking forward to spending the Christmas holiday with her siblings.
“There’s 12 of us. There are six girls, six boys… we have a lot of mouths to feed. Everytime momma had a baby, we all had to help take care of it,” she shared.
“I think that’s why she kept having kids, so she’d have somebody to babysit. But we did it, it was just a natural way of life. We were always excited when we heard mom was having a new baby.
“We try to get as many of us together as we can at Christmas… The ones who live in Nashville, we try to get together as much as we can.”
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