Music legend Dolly Parton suffered a vicious bout with depression that nearly drove her to suicide once she realized she was pre-menopausal and had waited too late to have children naturally with hubby Carl Dean.
The country star, 64, says she seriously thought about taking her life during that stormy period in the mid-’80s.
“I think I would have made a nice mama. I always thought I’d have kids. We tried to for so many years, and then I put it on hold because my career was doing so well and I was on birth control pills,” Dolly reveals in the Feb. 22 issue of Globe. “I went through a dark time – it lasted several months. Then one day, I just said to myself, ‘Right, get off your fat butt, or if you really are suicidal, then go and shoot your brains out.’”
In the years since, the “9 To 5″ singer has come to terms with the sadness of not having kids. Dolly believes that working with children’s charities has helped a lot in filling the void: “I thought, ‘Maybe God didn’t want me to have kids so that everybody else’s kids could be mine.”
Sure glad we didn’t lose our Dolly!