Dolly Parton’s Niece Explains Why Country Legend Wanted to Keep Cancer Diagnosis Secret: ‘She Never Wanted to Worry Anybody’
Parton died at age 80 last Tuesday (Aug. 25) following what her spokesperson said was a brief battle with an undisclosed cancer.
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