Dolly also felt guilty because she never had a child. She said she always felt like she would have made a great mama, but due to her career and many attempted tries at get pregnant, she gave up her dream of having children.
During her funk, Parton was sitting in bed one day when she discovered her gun in the drawer of her night stand. She had the gun just in case a burglar were to break in. Her depression was at its peak at this point. Holding the gun up to look at it, she began to contemplate rational reasons to do what she felt she had to do.
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