Reese Witherspoon has pulled back the curtain on the warm personal bond she shared with Dolly Parton, who died aged 80 on Tuesday after a secret cancer battle.
While reeling from the news, Witherspoon, 50, disclosed that the Queen of Country helped shepherd her to her Oscar win two decades ago for Walk the Line.
Witherspoon played country star June Carter in the 2005 biopic, which was led by Joaquin Phoenix in the role of her husband Johnny Cash.
Parton enjoyed a dazzling six-decade country music career that overlapped with those of Cash and Carter, whom she knew personally.
As a consequence, she was
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