Dolly Parton 'sick of death claims'

Dolly Parton has revealed that she has had enough of rumours that she has died.

A major TV news channel recently stated that the country star had passed away after suffering a heart attack in her sleep.

Parton said that she was asleep when the report was aired, but her husband woke her up and told her to let her family know that she was fine.

She said: "I was at the lake house with my husband and it came across Fox News that I had died of a heart attack. My husband comes and wakes me up saying, 'Wake up! You're dead! You need to call some people to let them know its not so!'"

The singer added that she has no idea where reports of her demise originate, but she would like them to stop.

"I think it's terrible that people would stoop so low that they'd scare people. They called my family back home - my brothers and sisters - and everybody was calling, some thinking it was true. There's some sick people out there and I ain't one of them," she said.