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Dolly Parton Denies Rumors Best Friend Is Her Secret Lover

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Dolly Parton (Matt Crossick/AP)

By    |   Tuesday, 19 February 2019 12:17 PM EST

Country superstar Dolly Parton denies she and best friend Judy Ogle are gay lovers.

Her comments came in an interview on “The Dan Wootton Interview” podcast and were reported in The Sun.

Parton, 73, is married to Carl Dean, but acknowledged she and Ogle have been dogged by the gay rumors for years.

“So ­people say that — because you can’t really have a great relationship with a woman. I’m not gay, but I have so many gay friends and I accept everybody for who they are.”

“Judy and I have been best friends for 64 years, since we were little kids. Our ­parents knew each other, we grew up together, we were like ­sisters, became best friends.

“She was very quiet, I was very outgoing. So we made perfect friends. We went all through school together.

“She went to the Army when we graduated because she needed the insurance and she needed to help her family and I was trying to make it. As soon as she got out, she came to Nashville and we’ve been together ever since.”

But Parton says she enjoys being a gay icon.

“I love that,” she admitted.

And she claimed that had she been born a boy, she would have “been a drag queen because I love all the flamboyant stuff.”

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