Dolly Parton Keep afflicting its late husband, Carl DeanA months after his death at 82.
“Oh, you know what, I am very excited when people mention it,” said Parton, 79, a virtual interview with Todays Savannah Guthrie On Friday, May 2. “We were together [for] 60 years. I have loved him since he was 18 years old. “
Parton with Dean in 1964 outside a laundry shortly after moving to Nashville to begin his musical career. They married two years later, maintaining their marriage outside the public eye.
“It’s a great adjustment just trying to change patterns and habits,” Parton said about navigating Dean’s death. “I will do it well, and I am very involved in my work and that is the best thing I could bite. I will always do it, of course, and I will always love him. He was a great partner for me.”
Parton is also grateful for the effusion of the support he has received following Dean’s death.
“I am very grateful. I have many letters, letters, flowers from all over,” he added about Today. “I had no idea that Carl Dean was so famous.”
Parton announced Dean’s death through Instagram in March.
“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together,” he wrote. “Words cannot do justice to the love we share for more than 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy.”

Dolly Parton and Carl Dean
Courtesy of Dolly Parton/InstagramDean, whom Parton and his two brothers survive, was buried in a private ceremony. Later, the country’s icon said Dean “suffered a lot” before he died. (A cause of death has not been publicly shared).
“I am doing better than I thought. I have bone with him for 60 years. So I will have to learn some of the things we have done again. Knox News. “I am at peace because it is at peace, but that does not prevent me from missing and loving it.”
Through the Parton Decades, he frequently praised the strength of his marriage.
“We are the perfect partners,” said Parton exclusively Us Weekly In January 2022. “We both have a great sense of humor … we can solve any problem and situation, making a joke about it and not let it become too heavy, but we respect each Eather and we like every Eather. We are lucky, we are going to put the itets.”
She continued at that time, “You know, most people can keep a marriage [going strong] If you do a little effort. Some people simply become hunched over and lazy and about things that are not important, such as leaving the toilet seat. And if that is the sausage that should be worried about, it is already in trouble. “