ShivamThe Start Of A Feud?
It was just another case of fake celebrity gossip when people started to speculate that Dolly was not that happy with the success of the song “I Will Always Love You” sung by Whitney Houston. The feud was spread by the tabloids all over. Contrarily, both singers respected each other a lot. Houston told Rolling Stone that she had the chance to thank Dolly personally: “I talked to Dolly Parton by phone not too long ago,” she said in 1993. “She said to me [imitates Dolly’s accent]: ‘Whitney, I just want to tell you something. I’m just honored that you did my song. I just don’t know what to tell you, girl.’ I said, ‘Well, Dolly, you wrote a beautiful song.’ And she said: ‘Yeah, but it never did that well for me. It did well for you because you put all that stuff into it.’”