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Elle King Speaks Up on Dolly Parton/Opry Incident: ‘Oh No, Was My Human Showing?’


Elle King is opening up about the brouhaha over her drunken, profanity-laden Grand Ole Opry tribute to Dolly Parton, but it's not an apology tour.

Nearly two months later, Elle King is finally speaking out about the storm she kicked up with her “hammered” tribute to Dolly Parton on the Grand Ole Opry Jan. 19… and it’s not the apology tour some celebs would have embarked upon in the face of a similar controversy. King had postponed the rest of her January and February concerts in the wake of the brouhaha that ensued after she messed up the Parton tribute and cussed her way through the usually staid Opry broadcast. In another Instagram message, posted Saturday after her set at the C2C Festival at London’s O2 stadium, the singer wrote, “I am quite literally drunk and don’t wanna go home” (echoing the title of her No.

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