Dolly Parton revealed why she never had kids with husband Carl Dean before his death

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died in Nashville at age 82. While the couple was private, Parton occasionally gave rare insight into their marriage in interviews.“It is important to have someone there in your corner and you know they’ll love you for just who you are,” Parton told E!

News in May 2024.“There’s a great comfort in knowing that someone loves you exactly for who you are—because he fell in love with me before I became a star,” she added.The “9 to 5” singer met her husband at a Wishy Washy Laundromat at 18.

They got married two years later but never had children together — a decision Parton has opened up about over time.“Since I had no kids, and my husband was pretty independent, I had freedom,” Parton said in a November 2020 episode of Oprah Winfrey’s Apple TV+ talk show, “The Oprah Conversation.”“So I think a big part of my whole success is the fact that I was free to work,” she explained.

The 11-time Grammy Award winner told Winfrey, “I didn’t have children because I believed that God didn’t mean for me to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine, so I could do things like Imagination Library because if I hadn’t had the freedom to work, I wouldn’t have done all the things I’ve done.