The country icon donated $1 million to the development of the vaccine last year.
Dolly Partonis once again proving to be one of the heroes of this pandemic.
“I’m not going to get mine until some more people get theirs,” she said.
“I don’t want it to look like I’m jumping the line just because I donated money.
I’m very funny about that.”
Back in April, Parton tweeted that she would bedonating $1 million towards the development of a vaccine.
Parton told the AP that God led her to her decision to donate.
I just asked if I could donate a million dollars to the research for a vaccine.
“I turned 75.
You’ll look like you’re just doing a show.
None of my work is really like that.
I wasn’t doing it for a show.
I’m going to get mine.
I’m going to get it.”
“Hopefully it’ll encourage people.
I’m not going to jump the line just because I could.”
