<p id=”par-1_55″>Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner worked together for seven years <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/porter-wagoner-found-dolly-partons-voice-irritating-first-heard.html/”>on <em>The Porter Wagoner Show</em></a>. While they had <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/dolly-parton-admitted-porter-wagoner-ruined-relationship-started-fighting-personal-matters.html/”>a contentious relationship</a>, they were able to remain friendly onstage and in front of the cameras. As a result, some viewers believed they were in a romantic relationship. Parton realized this wasn’t always good for her career.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-dolly-parton-didn-t-think-people-respected-her-for-her-relationship-with-porter-wagoner-nbsp”>Dolly Parton didn’t think people respected her for her relationship with Porter Wagoner </h2>
<p id=”par-2_35″>Even before Parton joined the show, Wagoner acknowledged that the pair of them would <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/porter-wagoner-talked-dolly-partons-husband-rumors-cheating.html/”>likely face affair rumors</a>. He was correct. Parton was married, but people began to believe she and Wagoner were romantically involved. </p>
<p id=”par-3_77″>“With any romantic duet, people always think the singers are having an affair,” wrote Parton in the book,<em> <a href=”https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dolly-parton-songteller-dolly-parton/1137088044″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics</a></em>. “Country fans especially assume that. And when you work that closely with someone, you do have a relationship. And it is based in passion. You have to experience emotions if you’re going to sing a song like ‘Lost Forever in Your Kiss.’ You’re living with these people, day in and day out.”</p>
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<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-width=”550″ data-dnt=”true”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Remembering Porter Wagoner, born on this day in 1927 in West Plains, Missouri. Here he is with Dolly Parton singing “The Last Thing on My Mind” in 1967. <a href=”https://t.co/6yaXG3rEzq”>pic.twitter.com/6yaXG3rEzq</a></p>— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) <a href=”https://twitter.com/dusttodigital/status/1160903201652203522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>August 12, 2019</a></blockquote><script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
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<p id=”par-4_11″>She believed this was much <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/dolly-parton-said-fans-assume-bad-taste-affair-porter-wagoner.html/”>worse for her reputation</a> than Wagoner’s.</p>
<p id=”par-5_24″>“[People thought] I was Porter’s whore or something,” she said, per the book <em><a href=”https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/aint-nobodys-fool-martha-ackmann/1147243799?ean=9781250286857″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Ain’t Nobody’s Fool</a></em> by Martha Ackmann. “They didn’t take me seriously.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_22″>While Parton insisted her relationship with Wagoner was only ever platonic, she acknowledged that he might have <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/dolly-parton-admitted-porter-wagoner-love.html/”>been in love with her</a>.</p>