Taylor Swift Pays Tribute to Dolly Parton: ‘She Was True Grace and True Grit, All in One Dazzling Person’

Taylor Swift shared a touching tribute to the late Dolly Parton after the iconic singer-songwriter’s death on Tuesday. “A world without Dolly doesn’t feel possible, real, or right,” it reads. “But because of the eternally generous way she spent her time on this earth and the countless lives she changed for the better,

The legendary Parton died Tuesday after a battle with cancer.

"She possessed the softest heart when it came to the struggles of others, and a backbone of steel to defend her own self worth as an artist," Swift wrote in her tribute

“A world without Dolly doesn’t feel possible, real, or right,” Taylor Swift said tonight of her friend Dolly Parton. “But because of the eternally generous way she spent her time on this earth and the countless lives she changed for the better, her legacy will be an everlasting one,” the Life of a Showgirl superstar…

The 13-time Grammy Award winner previously told The Hollywood Reporter that Parton was "a force of evolution and transformation in our industry."