Dolly Parton Once Claimed She and Her Siblings ‘Were Not Beaten’—’We Got Plain Old Tennessee Butt Whippin’s’

Dolly Parton grew up in the mountains of East Tennessee. She had a childhood that’s worlds away from the life she lives now. Once, the Queen of Country went into what getting disciplined was like for herself and her siblings. 

Dolly Parton on stage.
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Dolly Parton said she and her siblings were not ‘abused’

In Parton’s first memoir, Dolly Parton: My Life and Other Unfinished Business, the “Coat of Many Colors” singer wanted to make something clear: she was not coming out saying she “was abused” as a child “as some celebrities have.” 

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