Dolly Parton responds to calls for her to get her own statue
nme.comDolly Parton has responded to calls for a statue to be built of her at Tennessee’s State Capitol.Last month, Tennessee Rep. John Mark Windle introduced a bill that would see the country star recognised with a statue in Nashville.
Before that, more than 25,000 fans also signed a petition for all Confederate statues in the state to be replaced with ones of Parton.“I am honored and humbled by their intention, but I have asked the leaders of the state legislature to remove the bill from any and all consideration,” the musician tweeted earlier today (February 18).“Given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time,” she continued. “I hope, though, that somewhere down the road several years.
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