Country music icon Dolly Parton made
headlines in November and December 2020 when a vaccine she helped fund,
developed by pharmaceutical company Moderna, became one of the first to
prove promising in the fight against the devastating COVID-19 pandemic.
The
headlines kicked up discussion that appears periodically online about
Parton's personal life, namely the singer-songwriter's marriage to a
husband who prefers to stay out of the spotlight. Parton said in a
November 2020 interview with Entertainment Tonight that a lot of people
have asked her over the years whether her husband, Carl Dean, is even
real.
