Dolly Parton Denies Gay Rumors in 'Nightline' Interview (Video)

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Dolly Parton denied rumors of a romantic relationship with her childhood best friend, Judy Ogle, in an interview that aired Monday on ABC's Nightline.

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The country music legend says she and Oprah Winfrey have bonded over the false chatter.  "Gayle [King], her friend, Judy, my friend -- they just think that you just can't be that close to somebody," says the entertainer, who's been married to Carl Dean for 46 years.

"Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade," she says. "We still just have a great friendship and relationship, and I love her as much as I love anybody in the whole world, but we're not romantically involved." 

Parton, whose new memoir Dream More arrives Tuesday, has more to say on embracing plastic surgery and losing a drag queen look-alike competition in her Nightline sit-down.

Watch the video below.