Dolly Parton in London in June 2023.Photo:David Fisher/Shutterstock
David Fisher/Shutterstock
Dolly Partonis giving the facts around why she’s only reachable to friends through fax.
The country legend appeared via satellite on Wednesday’s episode ofThe View, where she set the record straight about her long-reported love of using a fax machine as her primary form of communication.
“So I actually, I never did get into getting involved in all that because it’ll take up too much of my time if I tried to get in touch with everybody who is trying to get in touch with me,” she continued. “So I just say, ‘Fax me! Fax me or call me and I’ll call you back.’ "
Dolly Parton appears in Las Vegas in March 2022.Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Parton’s love of faxing has long been documented, with both her goddaughterMiley Cyrusand friendReba McEntiretalking about it in the press.
Cyrus, 30,first discussed it during an October 2021 appearance onThe Graham Norton Show, remembering that Parton sent her a fax asking to collaborate on her holiday album. “She gets upset when you don’t respond,” Cyrus said, adding that she herself doesn’t even own a fax machine. “It’s like, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t even know. Half the people watching your show might not even know what a fax machine is!’ "
The “Flowers” singer spoke more about it in May 20217, while visitingLate Night with Seth Meyers.“Every time I coordinate and kind of communicate with Dolly, it’s still through fax,” Parton said. “We do use the phone, but she does a fax and then someone scans the fax and then they put it into a text message. And then that gets sent to me, and it’s always signed.”
Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton in Los Angeles in February 2019.Kevin Mazur/Getty
“She has a phone — she just doesn’t use it, I don’t think,” the formerHannah Montanastar added. “I think someone uses it for her and does the fax machine through the phone.”
McEntire, meanwhile, spoke about faxing Parton to collaborate on their 2022 duet, an updated version of 1993’s “Does He Love You,” during an interview withApple Music’s Southern Accents Radiothat same year.
“You don’t call Dolly, you fax her,” McEntire, 68, said. “You fax your people and your people talk to her people. That’s the only way I know to get ahold of her.”
Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton.Jeff Kravitz / Contributor/Getty
Jeff Kravitz / Contributor/Getty
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The three-time Grammy winner brought it up again while appearing onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenearlier this month.
“Dolly does not text,” McEntire insisted, telling Cohen she does not email either but only uses a fax machine. “I don’t have her telephone number. And I asked Kenny Rogers one time, I said, ‘Do you have Dolly’s number?’ He said, ‘No.’ "
“You know what, maybe he said that because he didn’t want to give it to me,” she joked.
The Viewairs weekdays (11 a.m. ET) on ABC.
source: people.com
