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\"To everyone sending me love because I'm human and already talked to Dolly 💅 ... I love you,\" King wrote in the video itself. \"To everyone who told me to k*ll myself ... I love you too.\"

King, who has been open about her experience with substance abuse and depression in the past, has already been given a pass by Parton herself.

During an interview with Extra last month, the \"Jolene\" singer praised King as \"a great girl\" who has \"been going through a lotta hard things lately,\" and asked for fans to give her some grace.

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\"She just had a little too much to drink, so let's just forgive that and forget it and move on, 'cause she felt worse than anybody ever could,\" she said.

The Opry also responded to the incident the day after the show, writing in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that it \"deeply\" regretted it and wanted to \"apologize for the language that was used\" onstage.

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