Dolly Parton’s private heartbreak over an alleged “affair of the heart” has resurfaced following her death at 80 – as President Donald Trump ordered American flags lowered in tribute to the country music legend.
Parton’s death was announced on Tuesday, August 25, by her nephew Bryan Seaver, who said she had asked him years earlier to record the message that would inform fans of her passing
The revelation has prompted renewed interest in Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters With Dolly Parton, edited by Randy Schmidt, which detailed an intensely painful period in Parton’s life during the early 1980s and an unidentified relationship that left her heartbroken.
A source familiar with the accounts collected in the book told THE VAULT in an exclusive interview: