Dolly Parton Explains Why She's Only Reachable via Fax: 'I'm Surrounded by Enough People'

"It’ll take up too much of my time if I tried to get in touch with everybody who is trying to get in touch with me," Parton said Wednesday on 'The View'

Dolly Parton is giving the facts around why she's only reachable to friends through fax.

The country legend appeared via satellite on Wednesday's episode of The View, where she set the record straight about her long-reported love of using a fax machine as her primary form of communication.

"Actually, I don’t want to get into that world," Parton told co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, seemingly referring to the current popularities of cell phones, text messages, emails and social media platforms. "I’m surrounded by enough people."

It's not something Parton's pals have accepted easily. "Kenny Rogers used to aggravate me about it," she recalled of the late star. "I said, ‘Look, I’ll send you a message by carrier pigeon if I need to get in touch with you. You always seem to know how to reach me when you want something!' "

"So I actually, I never did get into getting involved in all that because it’ll take up too much of my time if I tried to get in touch with everybody who is trying to get in touch with me," she continued. "So I just say, ‘Fax me! Fax me or call me and I’ll call you back.’ "

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Parton's love of faxing has long been documented, with both her goddaughter Miley Cyrus and friend Reba McEntire talking about it in the press.

Cyrus, 30, first discussed it during an October 2021 appearance on The Graham Norton Show, remembering that Parton sent her a fax asking to collaborate on her holiday album. "She gets upset when you don't respond," Cyrus said, adding that she herself doesn't even own a fax machine. "It's like, 'I'm sorry, I don't even know. Half the people watching your show might not even know what a fax machine is!' "

The "Flowers" singer spoke more about it in May 20217, while visiting Late Night with Seth Meyers."Every time I coordinate and kind of communicate with Dolly, it's still through fax," Parton said. "We do use the phone, but she does a fax and then someone scans the fax and then they put it into a text message. And then that gets sent to me, and it's always signed."

"She has a phone — she just doesn't use it, I don't think," the former Hannah Montana star added. "I think someone uses it for her and does the fax machine through the phone."

McEntire, meanwhile, spoke about faxing Parton to collaborate on their 2022 duet, an updated version of 1993's "Does He Love You," during an interview with Apple Music's Southern Accents Radio that same year.

"You don't call Dolly, you fax her," McEntire, 68, said. "You fax your people and your people talk to her people. That's the only way I know to get ahold of her."

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The three-time Grammy winner brought it up again while appearing on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen earlier this month.

"Dolly does not text," McEntire insisted, telling Cohen she does not email either but only uses a fax machine. "I don't have her telephone number. And I asked Kenny Rogers one time, I said, 'Do you have Dolly's number?' He said, 'No.' "

"You know what, maybe he said that because he didn't want to give it to me," she joked.

The View airs weekdays (11 a.m. ET) on ABC.

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