Reba McEntire has heaped praise on Dolly Parton, her former co-star.
Dolly Parton was “honest to a fault”, according to Reba McEntire.
The country music icon passed away in August, aged 80, and Reba has now paid a glowing tribute to Dolly, observing that she “treated everyone equal”.
Reba – who starred alongside Dolly in Reba, her TV sitcom, in 2005 – told Extra: “The thing that I loved about Dolly is that she treated everyone equal, no matter where you were on the call sheet or in the ladder of life. And she was honest. What you would see with Dolly was the honest Dolly. She was honest to a fault and she didn’t pretend to be anything else.
“She was also honest about her beliefs. She wasn’t ashamed, embarrassed to talk about her faith, and she sang about it, she talked about it, and she was eager to share her belief.
“I admired her honesty. As much as they talk about what was all fake, it was all honest and true.”
Earlier this month, Miley Cyrus also paid a glowing tribute to Dolly, her godmother.
During her show at the Hollywood Bowl, Miley recalled watching her perform at the same venue: “If she had it her way, and she was playing a show, I’d be standing right beside her in a matching costume. And so when I was coming to the show at the Bowl to see her, I said, you know, ‘I would love a night where I can just experience you. I can just enjoy you like the rest of the world has gotten to.'”
Dolly opened the show with The Best of Both Worlds, a track from Miley’s Hannah Montana TV show.
The pop star recalled: “All of a sudden, Dolly enters, but I hear The Best of Both Worlds. Yeah, Dolly opened performing Hannah Montana.
“But that’s just not the end of that story. And she goes, like a proud aunt, ‘I don’t know if y’all know this, but my goddaughter is Hannah Montana, and she’s actually here tonight, but she’s sitting out in her seat. She didn’t want anyone to bug her. She said she just wanted to watch the show,’ which defeated the entire purpose of the conversation that we had just had, because absolutely no one was aware that I was at the concert until she drew an obnoxious amount of attention to it.
“But like so many things Dolly did, I didn’t understand at the time.”
Dolly Parton was ‘honest to a fault’, says Reba McEntire
