The 1977 Interview Fans Are Revisiting
During the conversation, Walters asked, "Dolly, where I come from, would I have called you a hillbilly?"
Parton didn't miss a beat. "If you had have, it would have been something very natural, but I would have probably kicked your shins or something," she replied, before adding, "But we were very proud people, people with a lot of class. It was country class, but it was a great deal of class."
Later, when Walters suggested Parton lived in her "imagination," the singer spun her upbringing into a fairy tale on the spot. "Once upon a time, there was a little girl. Her name was Dolly Parton. And she lived in a small town in the mountains," she began, ending with, "She was a fairy princess and she lived happily ever after."
