So you be safe with God and just know that I will always love you, dolly."

In 2013, Parton also toldABC, “It never crossed our minds because he was with people…

I’ve been with my husband for 48 years.

Parton and Rogers, 2010

That’s not to say I’m blind or dead.”

I just never thought of him that way.

I liked him too much.

Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers with Lionel Ritchie

That would screw up everything."

“I just knew him so well.

But, it’s funny that you say that.

Marianne Gordon and Kenny Rogers

We had a tennis pro who traveled with us, Doug Dean asked me too.

We’d lose it.

There is sexual tension and teasing each other and it would screw it up.”

Dolly Parton

I don’t mean it badly.

Dolly is a fun girl."

His life was such an open book and after two years he felt this craving, this longing.

He said he felt he was having a mid-life crisis.

He felt like his career was fading."