In an episode of her Apple Music ShowParton spoke about Dean who never wanted to be in the spotlight in the midst of her successful career.
She shared: “He went to one with me early when we first got married with a BMI number of the year, and he came from his tuxedo, his tie, and all that, and said:” Never ask me to go to one of these D — things because I don’t go. “I never asked him, and he never did that.”
Reportedly in 2019 the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease 9 to 5 Singer’s partner of about 60 years old began to take both mentally and physically.
Before his death, a source claimed that Dean “was too weak to get out of bed to greet” Parton, 79, when she came home during the last days of the former asphalt contractor.
An insider claimed: “He is sick for a long time and has been feeling under the weather for a long time, and Dolly does everything in her power to make him feel better.
“She is now almost always by his side, except when she absolutely has to leave for work.”