Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dolly Parton
I remember watching an interview with her decades ago in which she was discussing a book she had written in which (if memory serves) she had talked about affairs she’d had over the course of her career. She refused to name names or get into much detail because that would be outing other people rather than focusing on her own imperfections. However, she was quite candid about having had affairs. I didn’t, and still don’t, love her any less.
I think perhaps your memory isn't serving you. And how we want to define "cheating." If cheating is considered a sexual relationship then Dolly didn't do it. This is from an article last year:
"Men are my weakness," the country singer explained. "Short, fat, bald or skinny — I've had crushes on some very unusual men but Carl knows I'll always come home and
I'm not having sex with these people — I'm just flirting and having fun.
"He's not jealous and I'm not jealous of him. He knows I flirt. He flirts too," Dolly wrote in her 2017 book Dolly on Dolly, Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton. She added: "Yes, it's an open relationship, but not sexually ...
In her 2017 book, Dolly said she had a "broken heart" from an unidentified lover after having an "affair". She said it happened outside of her "open, long marriage" and admitted
it was purely an emotional fling."