Tanya Tucker is looking back on her friendship with Loretta Lynn, as she bids farewell to the country music icon. In a press release Tuesday, Tucker called Lynn her “hero” in an emotional statement penned following the news of Lynn’s death. “Today, my world changed, and it will never be the same again.
My hero got her wings last night, and it’s been a day filled with tears. Many memories, so much gratitude and thanking my God above for blessing me first with her music and her guidance through the perils of the music world way before we ever met.
I looked up to Loretta always. Then when we became friends, she brought me flowers always, and I brought flowers to her,” the “Delta Dawn” singer recounted. “Time has let me share many special moments with her, but now time has taken her from me forever!
But she’s left me with so much to remember and cling on to. I thank God above that I got to sing with her on her latest record.
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