Dolly Parton, 73, reveals she has been sexually harassed with unwanted advances over her 50-year career: ‘I’ve certainly had to put up with a lot of BS’
- The country singer and movie star said she had her share of harassment
- But she believes she has been ‘more fortunate than most women have’
- ‘I’ve certainly been harassed in my life,’ she told Elle magazine’s November issue
- The Jolene singer added, ‘I’ve certainly had to put up with a lot of BS’
- Parton thinks she was not hurt because she grew up in a ‘good country town’
- She then slammed California ‘where they chew you up and spit you out’
- And said people in New York ‘don’t have time’ to look after others
Dolly Parton has always been ‘strong enough’ to walk away from harassment.
The 73-year-old singer admitted she has ‘certainly’ been subjected to unwanted advances over the years but she believes she has been ‘more fortunate than most women have’ as she never lived in the ‘big world’.
‘I’ve certainly been harassed in my life. I’ve certainly had to put up with a lot of BS,’ she told America’s ELLE magazine’s Women in Hollywood issue.
She can handle herself: Dolly Parton has always been ‘strong enough’ to walk away from harassment she told Elle magazine
‘I was always strong enough to walk away from it and not to have to fall under it,’ said the Steel Magnolias star.
‘I was lucky that I was in a good country town, where the men in the business have wives, and sisters, and cousins, and children.
‘It’s not like out there in the big world, like in California, where they chew you up and spit you out, or in New York, where they don’t have time, or in other big cities,’ she added.
Don’t mess with Dolly! The 73-year-old singer admitted she has ‘certainly’ been subjected to unwanted advances over the years but she believes she has been ‘more fortunate than most women have’ as she never lived in the ‘big world’
Power lady: ‘I’ve certainly been harassed in my life. I’ve certainly had to put up with a lot of BS,’ she told America’s ELLE magazine’s Women in Hollywood issue
The Jolene hitmaker – who is married to Carl Dean – doesn’t think the MeToo movement has made as big a difference as people hoped it would.
But she still believes women are now in a ‘better place’ than ever before.
She said of the campaign: ‘I think that brought so much stuff to the forefront that people had not been willing to look at, even though they knew it was happening.
‘At that time, we really hoped that it would make a bigger difference than it actually did.
‘Although I do feel like it did open a lot of doors and a lot of eyes to a lot of problems that we’d been having since time began.
Good times: She is best known for her film role in 1980s’ Nine To Five with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin
Back together: The actresses had a reunion at the Emmys awards in September 2017
‘We still have a lot of the same problems. I think that we just have to keep working at it. I think the new #MeToo movement and all that stuff has thrown more light onto it.
And she added that she thinks women are in a better place now than they’ve ever been before.
‘I’ve been fortunate in my life that my being a girl kind of helped me along the way, and being from a strong family of men, and women, and not being afraid to stand on my own or to say, “Go to hell,” if that’s where you needed to go.’
She is best known for her film role in 1980s’ Nine To Five with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. The actresses had a reunion at the Emmys awards in September 2017.
Parton has also starred in the films The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (1982) and Steel Magnolias (1989).
Last year she worked on music for the show Dumplin’ which starred Jennifer Aniston.
A winning role: Here she is seen with Olympia Dukakis in the 1989 movie Steel Magnolias
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