“He loves music,” Parton said of the 81-year-old, “but he is not within the music business in any respect, so we now have various things to discuss, his world and my world, and we work very well together. We’ve got plenty of love and respect for one another, and I believe the important thing to all of it—we each have a crazy, warped humorousness, so we now have plenty of fun.”
So Dean being absent from the general public eye for greater than half a century—unless you happened to catch him watching his wife perform at a county fair, his preferred type of venue—has never been an indication of trouble in paradise (or Dollywood).
Quite the other, the truth is.
“He’s all the time supporting me so long as I do not try to pull him in on it,” Parton told People in 2019, explaining why we never see her spouse. “He’s all the time been my biggest fan behind the scenes.”
And Dean has been in her corner since day one, literally.
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