Country music legend Dolly Parton has made many songs over the years, but one of her most popular ones is “Jolene.” In this song, Parton famously begged an unnamed flaming-haired woman not to steal her man, and it turns out that like many of her songs, this one was based on a true story.

Parton has revealed that soon after she married her husband Carl Dean in 1966, a pretty young bank teller in their town made it clear that she wanted to steal him for herself.

“A lot of my songs are based on some truth and Jolene was about a girl that was flirting with my husband back then,” Parton explained, according to the U.K. Mirror. “She was working down at the bank and he was spending a little more time down there than he should. So I put a stop to that!”

“I wrote the song about Jolene and I did a lot of banking after that, but not with her bank,” she added.

Though she and Dean have now been married for over fifty years, Parton admitted that she still checks her husband’s personal items for signs of contact between him and the woman from “Jolene.”

“I was looking through his address book the night before we renewed our vows,” she said. “I thought, I’m gonna see if he’s still got Jolene’s number.”

Parton even had a recent run-in with the unnamed woman, and she said that she’s looking quite a bit different these days.

“Just so you know, I did see the actual Jolene not long ago. She’s not so hot now,” Parton recalled. “She used to have that beautiful red hair, and now she’s grey. She used to have a little tight butt. Now, it’s a tight spot getting her butt through that door now.”

“She used to wear a D-cup – now she’s wearing Depends,” she added with a laugh.

As for Dean, Parton said that her former rival can have him if she wants to now.

“Every time I look at him sleeping over there in his La-Z-Boy, snoring, that hair turning grey at the temples, I wonder if Jolene is still around. I’ll call her up and say, ‘You come and get him now!'” the singer said.

All attempts by reporters to find the real “Jolene” have failed, which should come as no surprise given the fact that the woman’s name isn’t really “Jolene.” In fact, Parton came up with the idea to call the woman “Jolene” in her song based off a meeting with an 8 year-old fan.

“She had this beautiful red hair, this beautiful skin, these beautiful green eyes, and she was looking up at me,” Parton remembered. “I said, ‘Well, you’re the prettiest little thing I ever saw. So what is your name?’ And she said, ‘Jolene.’ And I said, ‘Jolene. Jolene. Jolene. Jolene… That is pretty. That sounds like a song. I’m going to write a song about that.'”

And that she did!

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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