Dolly Parton Has the Same Conversation With God Every Morning. She Has Described It Only Once, in Full.
2026/08/04
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Dolly Parton Has the Same Conversation With God Every Morning. She Has Described It Only Once, in Full.
The radio interview was conducted in 2017, on a program that deals specifically with questions of faith and public life — a format that invites a different quality of disclosure than the standard celebrity interview because the subject matter signals, from the beginning, that sincerity is what is expected rather than performance.
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The host asked her to describe not the fact of her faith — which is publicly documented and frequently discussed — but the experience of it. The daily practice. What actually happens when Dolly Parton prays.
She paused for what the audio recording reveals to be approximately eight seconds.
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