Dolly Parton has canceled her Las Vegas residency again amid ongoing health struggles.
The 10-time Grammy Award winner took to Instagram on Monday to announce the news, while also sharing an update on her health.
“Well hey there, it’s Dolly, and I am here to give you an update on a few things going on in my life. First, it’s concerning my health, and I have some good news and a little bad news. But the good news is, I’m responding really well to meds and treatments, and I’m improving everyday,” she said in the clip. “Now, the bad news is, it’s gonna take me a little while before I’m up to stage-performance level, because some of the meds and treatments make me a little bit swimmy headed, as my grandma used to say.”
She continued, “And of course, I can’t be dizzy carrying around banjos, guitars and such on five-inch heels. And you know that I’m going to be wearing them. Not to mention, all those heavy rhinestone outfits, the big hair, my big… uh, personality. Lord, those — that would make anybody swimmy headed.”
Parton previously postponed the series of Las Vegas shows in September 2025, citing “health challenges.” Parton announced in June that she was planning a set of limited-run performances at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Dolly: Live in Las Vegas was slated to feature six shows, which were later rescheduled for September of this year.
Amid concern for the “Jolene” singer’s health, Parton broke her silence on the cancellation of the shows and offered an update in October.
“As I mentioned back when my husband Carl was very sick, that was for a long time, and then when he passed, I didn’t take care of myself, so I let a lot of things go that I should have been taken care of,” Parton said while addressing the death of her husband, Carl Thomas Dean, who died earlier that year March. “So anyway, when I got around to it, the doctor said, ‘We need to take care of this. We need to take care of that.’ Nothing major, but I did have to cancel some things so I could be closer to home, closer to Vanderbilt, you know, where I’m kind of having a few treatments here and there.”
In the caption of her Monday post, Parton thanked her fans for “standing by me and showing me so much love and support over the past year.”
“I’ve still got some healing to do, but I am on my way! See you soon,” she concluded in the post.
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