Dolly Parton’s Famous Goddaughter Reveals Final Conversation

NBC Miley Cyrus has revealed her final conversation with her legendary godmother Dolly Parton .

In a conversation with Apple Music , Cyrus shared that her last words with the late country legend were about the former’s tenth studio album, released on Friday.

“Dolly has been the first person that, when I get a vinyl printed, that’s the first person I send it to since I’ve been making vinyls, and this time around I’m going to send her a vinyl because I always do,” the 33-year-old singer said.

“But the time that we talked, which was the last time we would talk, it was actually me telling her about this record.

Because even though we are so different — that’s what made us so perfect for each other – and she knew this and I know this; she is known for the fake, the hair, the makeup and the show of it.

But there’s a part of her that is what everyone gravitates towards...how real she is and how authentic she is.” Cyrus, who rose to fame in Disney’s Hannah Montana, said there was a time in her life when so much “was about persona.” “And I think a way that I could look at that as you can have a persona and still be who you are is because I had Dolly,” she reflected.

“Sometimes I call what I do drag because the way that I present myself is just someone that is so different from the person that feeds the tortoise every morning.

But again, that person’s inside of me.

I just kind of have her off.” She added that she and Parton often talked about their performances and the emotions behind them.

“One of the things we talked about was in my performances I always cry, I can’t help it....

“She was like, ‘Music is escapism.

Let them cry.

You need to get through it.’ And I was like, ‘I know, but this is who I am,’ and she loved me for it.” Apple Music’s Zane Lowe said that Parton was “probably the only person in the world who could sing ‘I Will Always Love You’ and not weep.” Cyrus concurred, saying she herself cried singing one of Parton’s most famous songs.

“She was always right,” Cyrus said of her godmother.