When I was on the road with Porter’s show, we traveled some together. All I knew was that we had a great relationship. “Merle Haggard was a special, special person. ![]() In her 2020 book, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics, she wrote this about him: While Dolly’s been known to play it coy in the media in terms of admitting or denying she ever had any sort of extramarital affair, she did go on the record to say that she never had an affair with Merle, specifically after people began speculating about the possibility. Dolly, on the other hand, has been married to the same man, her husband Carl Dean, since 1966. Merle was married five times, but his marriage to his last wife, Theresa Ann Lane, lasted from 1993 until he passed away in 2016. Merle Haggard and Dolly Partonwere good friends for decades, all the way until Merle’s passing in 2016.īut, Merle always felt much more for Dolly than your typical friendship, and was pretty taken by her for most of the time they new each other.
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