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I wish this were true, but it's not.
She's done tons of better things for medical stuff, but this sounds more like a hyperbolic grand sweeping oversimplification of what she has actually done with donations and efforts.
Doing dirty her good deeds with angelic sounding lies... She was more than we deserved already.
(Not bitching at op! I just detest lies made up for drama)
Source? Just curious how you know but tumblr person doesn’t
As another noted, the tone and writing is super abstracted... "a hospital" ...
I can't 100% DISPROVE this based on the fact there's no other documentation / mention of this act... anywhere. It's just all reblogs/posts of this exact text.
With all the other stuff she's done, how has NOT ONE SINGLE PARENT posted / talked about this?
My own daughter spent her first week of life in a local NICU here. That was 20+ years ago. I still remember the names of the 4 nurses that primarily dealt with her during that time.
If someone, ANYONE, had come forward to pay the 10's of thousands in costs I had to pay for this, I would STILL be shouting about it to this very day.
Again, I don't bring this up to detract from Dolly.... quite the opposite!!! She was AMAZING! But at the same time fabrications about her actions muddy and dilute the actual acts by blurring it.
Love Dolly, but people pushing for validity on the internet by making up stories to get likes is not the right way to honor her accomplishments and goodness.
If you still doubt, or want proof, then I ask you to provide any evidence this DID happen. I will happily cheer on evidence that she performed this kind of act.
No, that’s fair enough, I too have a grain of salt but i’m erring on the believe side. Neither of us knows. An anonymous post says X, that’s that.
I suspected it was fake just because of the writing style. It reads like easy internet fantasy fiction.
I was able to find a Snopes article, however, that helps settle the matter.
https://www.snopes.com/collections/celebrity-ai-slop-collection/#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+proliferation+of%2Cgenerosity+of+stars
Well, okay but it wasn’t about an animal sanctuary.
The article provides the context that people will sometimes make things up about celebrities when they're in the news, then gives an example of when it has happened before.
It's less feasible to prove a negative, "prove that she didn't do x". I can't provide an article about this specific claim because it never happened outside of this block of text. Aside from that, why wouldn't the hospital still bill insurance, then Dolly cover the rest. Thats just bad finance.
https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/dolly-parton-s-health-care-legacy-two-decades-of-giving
No evidence she paid for individuals. At least via a 30 second web search.