As she releases a new LP and her own wine, country music legend Dolly Parton talks to the British newspaper “The Guardian” about her difficult childhood and about the first cloned sheep, Dolly, that scientists they had given him her name.

The iconic singer, actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist said she was flattered to learn the cloned sheep was named after her.

“You know, when scientists cloned Dolly the sheep, they used the mammary glands. That’s what they’re called… Glands… They said, “Oh, we’ve got this sheep, Dolly…”. Everyone was always playing with them [το στήθος]that’s why we had Dolly the sheep.

I was sad when she died, although I don’t want to be cloned myself. I want to get out of here when I can. We already have a lot of Dolly lookalikes, a lot of Dolly drag queens,” he said.

Talking about her life, Dolly Parton referred to her childhood in Tennessee.

“It was really difficult, as most of them were poor people, which you only realized when you left,” he said.

“We had good parents, but we didn’t have all the great luxuries that I can have now. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything. The only thing I regret is that my parents struggled, but they never complained, so why should I? That made me who I am, so I’m grateful.”

Parton also says that to be happy you have to work. “If I wake up in the morning and I don’t feel good or things aren’t great, I try to think about what I can do to fix things and make them work better, instead of falling into this deep hole, because then you just go further and further down ».