Dolly Parton revealed that she has been offered the Presidential Medal of Freedom two separate times, and she turned it down both times. “I couldn’t accept it because my husband was ill and then they asked me again about it and I wouldn’t travel because of the COVID,” she explained on the Today show.
She added she has also now heard from Joe Biden‘s administration. “Now I feel like if I take it, I’ll be doing politics, so I’m not sure.” “But I don’t work for those awards,” she continued. “It’d be nice but I’m not sure that I even deserve it.
But it’s a nice compliment for people to think that I might deserve it.” “I think everyone thinks you might deserve it,” Today show host Hoda Kotb added.
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