Beyonce's mother Tina Knowles denies Dolly Parton comments after daughter's CMAs snub

Ms Knowles was reported to person taken umbrage astatine the state euphony icon for suggesting Beyoncé whitethorn not person been nominated due to the fact that the “country euphony field” prioritised state artists who had been successful the genre their “whole life”.

The 78-year-old alleged wrote connected Instgram, earlier the station was deleted: “Oh Ms. Dolly, we emotion you, but Bey did walk her WHOLE beingness workin’ hard since she was 9! She got state roots too. She’s mastered her trade and breached records successful EVERY genre. So sayin’ she didn’t ’spend her life’ successful state euphony dismisses each the enactment she enactment in.

“Bey don’t request to enactment successful 1 lane to get respect – her endowment and enactment ethic talk for themselves! She’s been putin’ successful the work, and cipher other gets asked to “spend their life” successful 1 spot to beryllium recognized! #been country.”

After receiving backlash connected Thursday, Ms Knowles claimed she hadn't posted the message, writing, ‘This is fake, not from me' nether different Instagram post. 

Defending the CMAs’ determination not to recognise Beyoncé’s country euphony grounds Cowboy Carter, which includes a screen of her ain opus Jolene, Parton told Variety: “There are truthful galore fantastic state artists that, I conjecture astir apt the state euphony field, they astir apt thought, well, we can’t truly permission retired immoderate of the ones that walk their full beingness doing that.”

She added: “But I didn’t adjacent realise that until idiosyncratic asked maine that question.”

Parton praised the deed record, calling Cowboy Carter “a fantastic album” that Beyoncé “can beryllium very, precise arrogant of”.

The Islands In The Stream vocalist added that she thinks “everybody successful state euphony welcomed her and thought that, that was good.”.

“I don’t deliberation it was a substance of shutting out, similar doing that connected purpose,” Parton continued.

“I deliberation it was conscionable much of what the state charts and the state artists were doing, that bash that each the time, not conscionable a specialty album.

“I’ve been fortunate capable to beryllium connected some those albums. Well, Jolene was successful Beyoncé’s, and I thought that was a large album.”

Reflecting connected Beyoncé's background, she said: “She’s a state miss successful Texas and Louisiana, truthful she grew up with that base. It wasn’t similar she conscionable appeared retired of nowhere.”

Parton went connected to archer the work that she was “open to anything” erstwhile asked astir the imaginable of her collaborating with Beyoncé successful future.