<p id=”par-1_48″>Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton grew close after <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/9-to-5-dolly-parton-memorized-everyones-lines.html/”>starring in <em>9 to 5 </em>together</a>. After <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/dolly-parton-told-family-wanted-rest-lifetime-wearing-heavy-rhinestones.html/”>Parton’s death</a>, Fonda has spoken glowingly about her longtime friend. Fonda recalled a time that Parton became upset after taking a picture. Her reasoning, Fonda said, had to do with her kind heart.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-jane-fonda-said-one-photo-made-dolly-parton-feel-upset”>Jane Fonda said one photo made Dolly Parton feel upset</h2>
<p id=”par-2_17″>Parton died on Aug. 25. When asked what she meant to her, Fonda gave a heartfelt answer.</p>
<p id=”par-3_17″>“She meant — she meant love,” Fonda told <a href=”https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/31/jane_fonda_dolly_parton” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Democracy Now</a>, adding, “She really did. <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/dolly-parton-taught-jane-fonda-1-important-lesson-fans.html/”>She loved everyone.</a>”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_42″>Fonda recalled a time when they took a cross-eyed picture with fellow <em>9 to 5</em> star Lily Tomlin. When Parton saw it, she said they had to get rid of it. She worried it might unintentionally hurt one of her family members.</p>
<p id=”par-5_68″>“One day, we were on a photo session, me, Dolly and Lily,” Fonda said. “And for fun, we crossed our eyes, and they took a picture of us with our eyes crossed. And she got very upset. She said, “We never can show this to anybody.” She said, ‘It looks like we’re making fun. I have a relative who’s cross-eyed. I don’t ever want to see this picture.’”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-jane-fonda-said-dolly-parton-consistently-made-her-laugh-nbsp”>Jane Fonda said Dolly Parton consistently made her laugh </h2>
<p id=”par-6_20″>Fonda said Parton was also <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/jane-fonda-revealed-dolly-parton-kind-psychic.html/”>intelligent and keenly perceptive</a>. She also did all that she could to <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/dolly-parton-said-husband-carried-little-torch-jane-fonda.html/”>make people laugh</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-7_51″>“Dolly, if she had gotten to the end of the day without her and her friends laughing so hard they had to cross their legs, then she would create a cause for laughter,” Fonda said. “She laughed all the time and made sure that everybody around her guffawed all the time.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_25″>She said she became intimately aware of Parton’s sense of humor while traveling on a tour bus with her as she prepared for a role.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-the-actor-sang-with-her-while-preparing-for-a-role”>The actor sang with her while preparing for a role</h2>
<p id=”par-9_19″>During Fonda and Parton’s road trip, the former had the unique opportunity to sing backup for the country star.</p>
<p id=”par-10_71″>“One of the ways that she helped me with a character of a — the hillbilly that I played in <em>The Dollmaker</em>, she invited me to Nashville, and then we spent 10 days driving through Appalachia and meeting people,” she said. “But the first night I was in Nashville, she announced to me that I was coming with her to the Grand Ole Opry, and I was going to sing backup.”</p>
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<p id=”par-11_13″>Parton didn’t announce this. She simply brought Fonda up on stage with her.</p>
<p id=”par-12_30″>“I sang backup for Dolly at the Grand Ole Opry,” she said. “Nobody knew who I was. This was 1977, I think, ’78. And yeah, I sang backup with Dolly.”</p>