“We’re all here to mend those broken hearts,' Dolly Parton told a crowd in a Tennessee Walmart parking lot. “These are my mountains. These are my valleys … These are my people.'
Country legend Dolly Parton announced a $2 million donation to Hurricane Helene victims in Appalachia Friday, telling a crowd of fans in a Walmart parking lot that "we’re all here to mend those broken hearts.""Who knew, in our little part of the country here, where I was born and raised just right down the road, that we would have this kind of devastation," Parton said at a press conference in Newport, Tennessee. "I look around and I think, these are my mountains.
Parton also took the time to sing for the crowd, adapting her hit song "Jolene" to "Helene" and changing the lyrics to, "You came in here and broke us all apart."RELATED: Asheville shelter saves 100 pets from Helene's floods but more help is neededThe death toll soared to 215 people on Thursday as more victims were found, making Helene the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since Katrina in 2005.
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