Dolly Parton posted a video to Instagram on Wednesday reassuring fans she is doing “OK” amid concern for her health.

“I ain’t dead yet!” she captioned the video, where she spoke to fans directly.

The message comes after Frieda Parton, her sister, on Tuesday asked for prayers for the country music star, before clarifying she was simply “a little under the weather” and not seriously ill.

In her video, Parton spoke to the camera, explaining she was working on commercials for the Grand Ole Opry, joking, “I know lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am. Do I look sick to you?”

“I wanted to put everybody’s mind at ease, those of you that seem to be real concerned, which I appreciate,” she said. She added that during her late husband Carl Dean’s illness, she “let a lot of things go

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