Country superstar Dolly Parton announced a large donation to help those who were effected by Hurricane Helene.
“We all have seen the devastation,” Parton said. “I mean, who knew in our little part of the country here, where I was born, raised just right down the road, that we would have this kind of devastation?”
“And I look around, and I think these are my mountains, these are my valleys,” she added. “These are my rivers flowing like a stream. These are my people, these mountain-colored rainbows. These are my people. And this is my home.”
Parton said she would be donating “$1 million dollars.”
“Today, I wanted to announce that from myself personally, just from my own bank account, I’m donating $1 million dollars today. But also with my Dollywood companies and all the people I’m involved with, Dollywood Foundation, etc, and we’ve added another $1 million to that,” the country singer continued.
Parton said watching people suffer is “personal because I have a lot of my own relatives that live here. When we heard about this, it was devastating, not just because it was my family, but all these people feel like my people. We all feel related, and we are in some sort of way.”
“It just devastated me just to know that we had to suffer like that. You don’t want to see anybody suffering, especially me, so anything that we can do to help,” she added. “I was heartbroken like everybody else, just amazed and devastated by it.”
