You know how some of us get a crick in our neck from sleeping wrong? Dolly’s back has been giving her grief for decades. It’s not from standing in those iconic heels for six hours straight—though I’m sure that didn’t help.
She was in a serious car accident in 1990. A van rolled over, and her back took the brunt of it. Dolly has said, with her signature wink, that it “messed up my back pretty good.” She’s had multiple surgeries since then. We’re talking about a woman who once joked her back hurts so much she “can’t even lie down without moaning.”
And yet? She still performed. She still toured. She’d inject herself with anti-inflammatories before shows. Is that stubbornness or pure magical energy? Yes.
