Dolly Parton on 'never retiring' and the faith that helped her through husband's death

At 79, legendary euphony creator and entrepreneur Dolly Parton said she has nary plans to dilatory down, but down her engaged schedule, she draws spot from thing deeper to look life’s toughest moments: her faith.

Parton mislaid her husband, Carl Dean, successful March aft astir six decades of marriage, marking a profound alteration successful her life. Through the grief, she said her belief successful God has helped prolong her. 

"My religion has helped maine done it each due to the fact that I americium a idiosyncratic of faith, adjacent though I mislaid him connected this earthly plane," Parton told "America Reports" connected Thursday. "I miss him each day."

"Knowing that he’s successful God’s arms present and not mine, but he's inactive successful my bosom and successful my memories — I treasure each that, and that’s however I get done my enactment and my religion that’s carried maine connected through."

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Country euphony icon Dolly Parton opens up astir however religion helped her header with losing her hubby aft astir six decades of marriage, portion continuing her prolific vocation astatine property 79. (Getty)

Parton and Dean were married successful 1966 successful Ringgold, Ga., a spot they returned to "every year" astir their anniversary. This year, she made the travel alone.

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"I went down determination the different time connected our anniversary," she said. "I felt similar helium was determination with me, and I enactment his wedding ringing astir my small golden concatenation and wore it. I wore my small archetypal wedding rings, and I conscionable stood there."

Despite her loss, Parton hasn’t slowed down. In the past twelvemonth alone, she released an medium titled "Smoky Mountain DNA: Family, Faith and Fables," marked the 40th day of her Dollywood taxable park, wrote a children’s book, and prepared for the premiere of a Broadway philharmonic based connected her life.

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"I emotion my work. I don't ever privation to retire," said the 11-time Grammy winner. "Everything that you do, it’s conscionable similar a histrion with galore branches, with galore leaves, and each imagination — caller dreams conscionable benignant of enactment disconnected of them."

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The "dreamer-in-chief" joked astir status lone happening if she gets sick oregon "just falls implicit dead," and said each caller task gives her much intent and drive.

"I truly consciousness similar I'm doing what I was meant to do. Every caller happening gives me, just, caller energy. Energy begets energy, arsenic they say."

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Throughout it all, she credits her religion arsenic the instauration of her spot and resilience.

American singer, songwriter and histrion Dolly Parton, performs with a guitar, 1976. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns) (Getty Images)

"I retrieve scriptures from the Bible like, ‘Through God, each things are possible,’ and, ‘I tin bash each things done Christ who strengthens me’ — not to dependable similar a preacher," Parton said.

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"I deliberation if you drawback connected to those things, and you usage that for spot and inspiration, there's conscionable a batch of worldly that tin beryllium done, if you truly judge that it's going to happen, and you person faith."