Dolly Parton will reportedly miss this year’s Governors Awards, where she was set to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, as she battles an unspecified health issue.
That report from Variety follows the 79-year-old superstar’s decision on Sunday to postpone her December residency in Las Vegas due to “health challenges.”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced in June that Parton would receive the Humanitarian Award on Nov. 16 for her lifelong dedication to charitable endeavors. While the ceremony is scheduled to take place in Los Angeles, the “9 to 5” actor and singer reportedly planned to accept that honor virtually from Nashville.
“As many of you know, I have been dealing with some health challenges, and my doctors tell me that I must have a few procedures,” Parton told fans on her website, where she announced the postponement of her Sin City gigs.
She joked it was time for her “100,000-mile check-up” and playfully assured supporters her upcoming procedures weren’t for plastic surgery.
Parton lost her husband of nearly six decades in March. She met Carl Dean in a laundromat upon moving to Nashville to pursue her career in music and married the asphalt-paving businessman in 1966. She told People in a 2016 interview that Dean preferred standing in the background while she absorbed the limelight.
“He does not like all the hullabaloo,” Parton said.
She’s releasing a hardcover book titled “Star of the Show: My Life on the Stage” on Nov. 11, celebrating her career as a live performer.
Parton is a member of the Grammy Hall of Fame, Country Music Hall of Fame, Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Her Dollywood Foundation, launched in 1988, supports education in her native Tennessee, while her Imagination Library literacy program, founded in 1995, has distributed more than 287 million free books to children around the world.
