has shared a health update with fans after admitting to “hard times”.

The country icon lost her husband , an enormously close figure in her life, after 58 years of marriage. Grieving has taken its toll, with Dolly recently pulling some high profile live shows to focus on her health.

In a new update, she’s admitted to some “hard times” saying she felt “worn down and worn out” earlier this year.

“I am dealing with some health issues that I just didn’t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl,” she told People on Friday (August 21st).

“It’s not like I haven’t been through hard times with my health,” she explained, recalling that in the early 1980s she was “down for several months with female issues”.

“But I think because we live in a 24/7 world with social media, everything gets magnified in ways it wasn’t years ago. I used to joke that I was the Queen of the Tabloids, but now I guess I can say I’m the Queen of Social Media AI!”

Dolly said: “Seriously, though, even though I’m still healin’, I’m still workin’.”

Last year, Dolly’s sister Freida asked fans to keep the country queen in their prayers. In a previous statement, Dolly Parton linked her health issues to kidney stones: “I’ve told you before that I’ve always had problems with my kidney stones. Lord, they dig more stones out of me a year than the rock quarry in Rockwood, Tennessee. But seriously, my immune system and my digestive system got all out of whack over the past [couple of] years, and they’re working real hard on rebuilding and strengthening those, and hopefully I’ll be up to snuff again soon.”