AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Dolly Parton's niece reveals why the country icon kept her cancer diagnosis secret
Dolly Parton's family chose to shield the public from her cancer battle because the 80-year-old singer "never wanted to worry anybody", a decision her niece says left even close relatives in shock when the end came. Jada Star, Parton's niece and the daughter of Parton's sister Frieda, sat down with Extra in an interview published […] The post Dolly Parton's niece reveals why the country icon kept her cancer diagnosis secret appeared first on American Almanac .
Dolly Parton's family chose to shield the public from her cancer battle because the 80-year-old singer "never wanted to worry anybody", a decision her niece says left even close relatives in shock when the end came. Jada Star, Parton's niece and the daughter of Parton's sister Frieda, sat down with Extra in an interview published September 1 to describe the private grief behind one of the most public losses in American music. Parton died August 25 at a Nashville medical center, surrounded by loved ones, after what her representatives called a brief battle with cancer. The specific type of cancer has not been disclosed. The interview offered the first extended family account of why Parton, a woman who built a career on openness,…Open