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See the full story · 3 sourcesBrandi Carlile on Dolly Parton: 'She Took a Risk and Accepted Me for Being Gay' Carlile, who shared the stage with Parton at the 2019 Newport Folk Festival, remembers the country music songwriter, who died Aug. 25 at 80 By Joseph Hudak
Brandi Carlile says Dolly Parton once prayed over her and she's "never been the same since." Carlile remembered the Country Music Hall of Fame member, who died Tuesday at 80 after a brief battle with cancer, in a social media post.
"Before I met her, I loved her because she took a risk and accepted me (and all of us) for being gay in a time where she didn't need to say anything," Carlile wrote on Instagram. "And she has been asked to comment and speak on MANY things over the years… choosing only to speak on that which brings love and mercy to real people, and shutting down any line of questioning that won't. She never wavered on accepting anyone for who they were and who they were meant to be."
Carlile shared the stage with Parton, and her colleagues in the Highwomen, at the 2019 Newport Folk Festival . One of the highlights of the set was Carlile's dramatic performance of "I Will Always Love You" with Parton.
But it was watching the "Jolene" singer's set at Glastonbury a few years earlier, in 2014, that stayed with Carlile.
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