Dolly Parton struggled in the year after the death of her beloved husband, Carl Dean, and noticeably retreated from public life, according to a family friend.
“She wasn’t doing well,” Nikki Lund, who knew the country music icon through Parton’s longtime manager, Donny Nozell, exclusively told Page Six. “I think it’s like a broken heart, you know?”
Lund, who last saw Parton about a month ago, said the singer had endured “a lot of loss in a short amount of time” following the March 2025 death of Dean and the more recent loss of her brother.
“Normally, she works all the time because she loves it. She’s just a busy bee. She’s always busy. And for…
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