Dolly Parton Reveals Why She and Late Husband Carl Dean 'Were So Good for Each Other'
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Jack IrvinJuly 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Dolly Parton is the latest guest on Khloe Kardashian's Khloe in Wonder Land podcast
The country icon opened up about why she and late husband Carl Dean "were so good for each other"
Dean died at age 82 in March 2025
There are many reasons Dolly Parton and her late husband Carl Dean's relationship worked so well.
The country icon, 79, was married to Dean for 58 years before his death at age 82 in March, and she's now opening up about why they "were so good for each other" in an interview on the July 9 episode of Khloé Kardashian’s podcast, Khloé in Wonder Land.
"We were different people. He loved music, but he was a loner," said Parton of her reclusive husband. "He did not want a bunch of people around him except me. Of course he had friends, but he was also the same way. He’d rather be at the barn, be on the farm all day, and if he was gonna go sell a loader or buy a loader or have somebody come work on one of his trucks or tractors, he’d have to let people in."
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"But I really think that there’s just certain personalities that are great for each other. And we were together 61 years," added the "Jolene" singer, who met Dean at a laundromat in Nashville when she was 18 years old. "We were just so different, but we were so similar. We were perfect, as far as the temperature in the house. We didn’t fight over that ‘cause we both were comfortable at the same thing. Just so many things we were compatible about, and we just got along great."
"I don’t know if any of you follow the signs, the Zodiac signs," she told Kardashian. "I’m Capricorn, and [he's a] Cancer, and those are supposed to be compatible. But he was a homebody."
Parton noted Dean "never did an interview in his life" and wasn't interested in fame. "He’d be out mowing the yard on the tractor, and the fans would come by to see our house, and they’d say, ‘Are you Dolly Parton’s husband?’ And he’d say, ‘Do I look like I’d be Dolly Parton's husband?’ He’d have on his old straw hat and his coat," she said.
"I didn’t ever expose him to that," she said of the celebrity lifestyle. "But he was very proud of me. We got along great because we didn’t have nothing to fight over."
Despite Parton's fame, she and Dean approached life similarly. "I have to be out in the public and I belong to the public, but I’m such a private person. And my husband was as well," said the "Here You Come Again" artist.
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Dolly Parton
"That was the thing with us, we were so good for each other because he’s a total loner," she continued. "But we could just be in the house all day and say two or three words — didn’t matter. Or we could talk all afternoon and lay in bed, talk at night in the dark."
Elsewhere during the podcast episode, Parton revealed she won't be releasing new music anytime soon in the wake of Dean's death. "[There are] several things I have wanted to start, but I can’t do it," she said.
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Dolly Parton and Carl Dean
“I will later,” she continued. “I’m just coming up with such wonderful beautiful ideas, but I think I won’t finish it. I can’t do it right now, because I got so many other things.”
“I can’t afford the luxury of, you know, getting that emotional right now,” added Parton. “There are times like that, things like that, that will stall you a little bit. But I’ll write something else though, if it comes.”
“I’m just putting that all on hold,” she said.
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