Current:Home > Contact-usThe Hilarious Reason Why Dolly Parton Only Uses Fax and Not Text Messages-InfoLens
The Hilarious Reason Why Dolly Parton Only Uses Fax and Not Text Messages
View Date:2024-12-23 18:04:22
Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 involves one very retro form of communication.
The country music legend addressed her long-reported refusal to text, explaining why she will always love to use a phone or fax machine to talk business instead.
"I'm a low-tech girl in a high-tech world," Dolly admitted on the Nov. 27 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show. "But I surround myself with all these people that are in that high-tech world, but I don't want to talk to everybody that wants to talk to me."
Simply put, she explained, "I don't text because I don't want to have to answer. If someone calls me, I'll answer if I want to talk to them, or I'll call them back when I can. Otherwise, I got too much to think about to clutter my mind up with everything else."
However, the 77-year-old noted that she "could learn" to text if she really wanted.
"I'm certainly not a stupid person," she quipped to host Drew Barrymore, "I'd rather just have my fax machine, call in my creative stuff to my crew."
Calling her team "the best crew in the world," Dolly continued, "I just don't have time to just sit with my face in a phone all day."
And the "Jolene" singer is firm on her no-texting rule. As her goddaughter Miley Cyrus once found out, she won't even make exceptions for family.
"She faxed me," Miley recalled during a 2020 appearance on The Graham Norton Show, noting that she herself doesn't even own a fax machine or knows how to use one. "She gets upset when you don't respond."
Likewise, Reba McEntire knows that "you don't call Dolly, you fax her."
"That's the only way I know to get ahold of her," the Reba star shared on Apple Music's Southern Accents Radio last year. "I even asked Kenny Rogers one time, I said, 'Do you have Dolly's cell number?' He said, 'No.' So you fax her."
Keep reading to see Dolly though the years.
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News AppveryGood! (4476)
Related
- 2025 NFL Draft order: Updated first round picks after Week 10 games
- Save up to 54% on Samsonite’s Chic & Durable Carry-Ons, Luggage Sets, Duffels, Toiletry Bags & More
- Oakland’s airport considers adding ‘San Francisco’ to its name. San Francisco isn’t happy about it
- Driver arrested after fleeing California crash that killed child, injured 4 other passengers
- Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony
- Valerie Bertinelli slams Food Network: 'It's not about cooking or learning any longer'
- Inflation came in hot at 3.5% in March, CPI report shows. Fed could delay rate cuts.
- Usher to receive keys to Chattanooga in Tennessee: 'I look forward to celebrating'
- Whoopi Goldberg Shares Very Relatable Reason She's Remained on The View
- How Ryan Gosling Fits Into Eva Mendes' Sprawling Family
Ranking
- Louisiana mom arrested for making false kidnapping report after 'disagreement' with son
- The Daily Money: A car of many colors
- Masters a reunion of the world’s best players. But the numbers are shrinking
- Christina Hall Shares She's Had Disturbing Infection for Years
- CFP bracket prediction: SEC adds a fifth team to field while a Big Ten unbeaten falls out
- Christina Hall Shares She's Had Disturbing Infection for Years
- One killed, five wounded when shooters open fire on crowd in DC neighborhood
- Henry Smith: Summary of the Australian Stock Market in 2023
Recommendation
-
NBC's hospital sitcom 'St. Denis Medical' might heal you with laughter: Review
-
Washington gun store sold hundreds of high-capacity ammunition magazines in 90 minutes without ban
-
Marjorie Taylor Greene says no deal after meeting with Mike Johnson as she threatens his ouster
-
Federal appeals court hearing arguments on nation’s first ban on gender-affirming care for minors
-
'Bizarre:' Naked man arrested after found in crawl space of California woman's home
-
Mom who threw 2 kids onto LA freeway, killing her infant, appeared agitated by impending eclipse
-
Michael Bublé, Jason Derulo talk 'Spicy Margarita' music video and their Vegas residences
-
Former NFL star Terrell Suggs arrested one month after alleged Starbucks drive-thru incident