It has only been a day since the heartbreaking passing of American icon Dolly Parton and stories about her and from her are still flooding social media. This is a great one.
In 2005, Dolly appeared on the Late Night With Conan O’Brien show and explained how she visited New York City years ago, before she was famous and ended up pulling a gun on a man who was harassing her in the street.
She and the young woman she was travelling with had been kicked out of their hotel because the management thought they were turning tricks. Without knowing what to do, they wandered the city for a while and that’s where Dolly encountered the man who became a problem.
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Parton explained that she and her then-assistant Judy Ogle went to New York City in the late 1960s or early 1970s and got a room. Neither had been to NYC before, so they left their bags in their room and then went out to see the city. They returned to their room to find that the people running the hotel thought she and Ogle “were turning tricks” and kicked them out.
She told O’Brien, “We asked if we could please, at least, leave our stuff in the lobby. So we were out waiting around until time to leave, and we were walking down the street. We didn’t know where to go.”
Parton said they wound up on 42nd Street by accident and she said, “This guy thought that [she and Ogle] were on the make.”
She said, “At that time, I was a country girl from the mountains; I had a gun in my purse.”
O’Brien interjected, “So you had a gun in your purse?”
Parton answered, “I had a gun in my purse, and this guy wouldn’t leave me alone cause he was just sure I was playing hard to get [and] that I was really after it.”
She explained, “I didn’t know how to get him off me so I just pulled my gun out and I said, ‘If you touch me one more time I’m gonna shoot you.’”
Watch the clip below:
That time Dolly Parton pulled a gun on a sex pest in New York City (via @AWRHawkins‘ tribute, 🔗⬇️) pic.twitter.com/Qnvbmk6xh2
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She really was a national treasure. A one of a kind person who can never be replaced.
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