“He said, ‘Look, now I want you to do everything you want to do, and I wish you the best, but don't ever ask me to go to another one of these damn things because I ain't going.’ And he never did,”

Carl Dean · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27

Parton recounted on Bunnie Xo's podcast what Dean told her after the BMI Awards about never attending another industry event.