Despite being married to Carl Dean since 1966, the sexuality of Dolly Parton has been a long-debated topic. This is partly attributed to her close relationship with her childhood pal, Judy Ogle, whom Dolly has been secretly pursuing for years, many have said.
Although she has vigorously dismissed the rumors, in a new interview with The Sun, the 73-year-old singer tackles the problem once again. “So people say that – because you can’t really have a great relationship with a woman. I’m not gay but I have so many gay friends and I accept everybody for who they are,”So people say that – because you can’t really have a great relationship with a woman. I’m not gay, but I have so many gay friends, and I accept everybody for who they are.
Dolly, who has been friends with Judy since they were teenagers, contrasts Oprah Winfrey and her best pal, Gayle King, to the allegations about their relationship. She says, “Well, people love to talk, people love to gossip. They’ve said that about Oprah but it’s not true.”
Dolly appears to be exempt from such misleading claims about her, having been in the film business since the 1960s. “People love to talk – but sometimes that’s your best publicity. I don’t care what they say as long as they don’t hurt other people I love,” she says.
“Judy and I have been best friends for 64 years, since we were little kids. Our parents knew each other, we grew up together, we were like sisters, became best friends.”Judy and I have been best friends. Our parents knew each other, we grew up together, we were like sisters, they were best friends.
I was very open, she was very quiet. So we made great friends. We went together all through school,”She was very quiet, I was very outgoing. So we made perfect friends. We went all through school together,”She was very quiet. “She went to the army when we graduated because she needed the insurance and she needed to help her family and I was trying to make it. As soon as she got out, she came to Nashville and we’ve been together ever since.”
The nine-time Grammy Awards-winning singer, recognized for her quirky appearance, is now a gay symbol. But Dolly identifies herself as “an old timer.” In reality, with today’s pop stars who identify themselves as gender fluid, pansexual or transgender, like her own god-daughter, Miley Cyrus, she does not seem to grasp.
“I think they just want to be part of that whole movement to make people think that they’re so free and all that. But I don’t really know how they feel inside. I know how I feel inside.” She says, “Miley, she does a lot of stuff for effect, and I think a lot of them do.”
Often I think that talking out like that is now being sort of trendy. I think some of them sometimes suggest more than they actually are,” she says in the new episode of “The Dan
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