<p id=”par-1_45″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/dolly-parton/”>Dolly Parton’s</a> flirtatious nature has sparked multiple affair rumors over the years. People have connected her to a number of different <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/celebrity/”>celebrities</a>, particularly her male costars. She once said that she wouldn’t cross a line with another man, though she admitted she has felt tempted.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-dolly-parton-said-she-has-been-interested-in-people-who-weren-t-her-husband-nbsp”>Dolly Parton said she has been interested in people who weren’t her husband </h2>
<p id=”par-2_24″>Parton said that fewer people express interest in her than one might expect. Still, she <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dolly-parton-emotional-affair-while-married-husband.html/”>has formed connections</a> with some people over the years.</p>
<p id=”par-3_63″>“This is the honest truth, but I’ve had very few people ever proposition me,” she said, per the book <em>Dolly: The Biography</em> by Alanna Nash. “I’ve been standin’ with girl friends when people just say everything to them or just come up and pretty well ask ’em. You know, I have been well thought of, and I have shared conversations with many people.”</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dolly-Parton-3.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”A black and white picture of Dolly Parton standing in front of a microphone with an acoustic guitar.” class=”wp-image-3785947″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Dolly Parton | Richard E. Aaron/Redferns</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-4_16″>She said that while she hasn’t acted on these feelings, she met people who interested her.</p>
<p id=”par-5_96″>“I know that there have been people who have wanted to share more with me, and I would have probably wanted to share more with them, but I was already, well … I just wasn’t the kind that would go on and do that, because of my own principles and my own morals, and because of my own marriage and my family,” she said. “To me, sex is a part of life, but it’s also a part of love, and in order to share sex would mean that I would have to share love as well.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_15″>While she likes to flirt, pursuing any romantic connections further would <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dolly-parton-moral-point-obsession-said-guitarist.html/”>go against her values</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-7_43″>“Occasionally, you know, you meet somebody that you really feel something for, but because of obligations and circumstances and all, you just let it go and leave it alone,” she said. “But that doesn’t mean you don’t really feel it, just the same.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-dolly-parton-described-her-relationship-with-her-husband-as-open”>Dolly Parton described her relationship with her husband as ‘open’</h2>
<p id=”par-8_34″>Parton said that both she and her husband, Carl Dean, have flirted with other people over the years. She had no problem with this, but knew that neither of them would take things further.</p>
<p id=”par-9_57″>“He’s not jealous and I’m not jealous of him. He knows I flirt. He flirts too,” the <a href=”https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/dolly-partons-affairs-hollywood-hunk-21857456″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Mirror</a> reports her saying. “Yes, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dolly-parton-describes-her-marriage-to-carl-dean-as-open-but-not-in-the-way-fans-may-think.html/”>it’s an open relationship</a>, but not sexually and I would kill him if I thought he was doing that. He would shoot me too. At the end of the day we love each other madly.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-people-warned-carl-dean-about-her-potential-infidelity-nbsp”>People warned Carl Dean about her potential infidelity </h2>
<p id=”par-10_27″>Early in their relationship, some people in Parton’s family <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dolly-partons-husband-reacted-family-members-warned-having-affair.html/”>warned Dean about her</a>. She’d been the subject of affair rumors for years, but these didn’t bother him.</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-2″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dolly-Parton-1.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”A black and white picture of Dolly Parton sitting in front of a fence.” class=”wp-image-3785044″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Dolly Parton | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-11_90″>“Carl has had various people and even family members approach him to say I was having an affair with this or that person,” Parton wrote in her book <em>Dolly.</em> “Carl would simply say, ‘Well, I would think less of any man that didn’t fall in love with her.’ And he means it. He seems to have an understanding of how I am and how people are toward me. He seems to know that I’ll be back, and that love affairs and relationships are just part of my dealings with people.”</p>