I'm bringing it down there for him to work on. I never had a guitar till I was in my 20s. As a matter of fact, the first guitar I ever had made - I'm left-handed - Randy made for me. Stella Parton: I know Randy Wood from when he had a music store here in Nashville. What's bringing you to the Savannah area? I think I've always been a good entertainer, but I don't have to have the spotlight. If it's my turn, I'll go and do what I need to do. I've always seen myself as a messenger of hope. And that's just what I am today - a working artist and a motivational person. I was a single mother I never saw myself as an aspiring star. her career was one thing, mine was another. I think I've been a pain in her butt because people ask her about me. I'm very protective over her, and she's very protective over me. But it's a sibling relationship, and it's very loving. Stella Parton: Well, we've always had what I would call a big sister/little sister relationship. What kind of a relationship do you have with Dolly? My son was young at the time, and he was in a private school 20 minutes outside of Nashville, and if it had been on the news he would have been horrified. " You do a lot to protect family members. I didn't want her embarrassed, or people saying "That's Dolly Parton's sister! Blah, blah, blah. People at the airport didn't help me, because they thought it was a domestic dispute.Īnd afterwards, I didn't make a scene in Nashville at the airport - I didn't want to be on the 6 o'clock news locally, because I didn't want Dolly's name attached to it. I had broken off the engagement, but he forced me out of the country against my will. I was actually kidnapped and taken out of the country by a man who I had been engaged to. And that's because women are natural-born fixers - they think that somehow they should've fixed it. Ninety-eighty percent of the people in relationship abuse are women. the person that's being abused ends up feeling that somehow they could've fixed it. It's such a horrible thing to happen to anyone, and there's so much shame attached to abuse, whether it's rape, sexual assaults, mental abuse, verbal abuse. Stella Parton: It's definitely part of the story. Then once I got into it I thought "You know, people probably would like to know a little bit about my career, and a little bit about my family." I thought there was a lot of stuff I could tell that might help some people, stuff that might surprise that somebody in my situation has gone through things that maybe they're going through.īecause of all the charity work that you do to combat domestic violence, I have to ask: Is it part of your own story? I was working on a degree in biblical studies and I got inspired to write the book from that angle. It started out to be just a book of inspiration I was going to call Everyday Miracles Even Now and Then. Stella Parton: I was going through a time of introspection, re-assessing my career and my journey so far. We caught up with her by phone, at her Nashville home. She continues to write, record and tour.īut Stella Parton - yes, Dolly is one of her older sisters - is also the author of several successful cookbooks, and her autobiography Tell It Sister, Tell It (2011) was praised for its winning combination of candor, humor, spirituality and philanthropy. She had a Top Ten hit in 1976 with "I Want to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight," landed on the charts a few more times, and enjoyed a reasonably splendid career throughout the 1980s. " Singing was like breathing at home," Dolly's sister Rachel told Peopleback in 1982.The sixth of Robert and Avie Lee Parton's 12 children, Stella Parton was born and raised in tiny Sevierville, Tenn., between the Smoky Mountains and the Little Pigeon Forge River. The clan had next to nothing back then, but what they did have was a passion for music, instilled in them by their mother, who always encouraged them to sing at home and at church. In order of birth, the six boys and six girls were named Willadeene, David Wilburn, Coy Denver, Dolly Rebecca, Bobby Lee, Stella Mae, Cassie Nan, Randel Huston “Randy,” Larry Gerald, Estel Floyd, and twins Freida Estelle and Rachel Ann. The big family, born to Robert and Avie Lee Parton, grew up near the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee's Sevier County.
So, what's the story with these 11 brothers and sisters, anyway? And where are the Parton siblings now? And with Dolly set to co-host the 53rd Annual CMAs, we've had even more reason than usual to think about the Partons and their incredible talent. Here's where you can find each of them in 2019.Īfter spending decades working in music and film, there's no doubt about it: Dolly Parton and her siblings belong to one seriously gifted family.
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