Dolly Parton announced that she’s not “dead” yet on Wednesday, after rumors swirled that the 79-year-old may be on her “death bed.”

Parton canceled a string of events over the past month, citing “health challenges.” When her sister Frieda posted to Facebook that she’d “been up all night praying” for Parton, who “wasn’t feeling her best,” a wave of fan worry and troubling AI videos of Parton at death’s door hit the internet. The country legend addressed both in an Instagram video post, telling fans, “I ain’t dead yet.”

“I wanted to say I know lately everybody thinks I am sicker than I am—do I look sick to you?” she also says in the video, as she sits in full glam while filming “some commercials for the Grand Opry.” Though Parton admits, “I’ve got some problems as I’ve mentioned,” she ins

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