Dolly Parton
August 20, 2007 — Last December when Jessica Simpson forgot the words to "9 to 5" while singing the classic tune in honor of Dolly Parton at the Kennedy Center Honors, her performance was so bad she was cut from the lineup when the gala aired on television.
"I failed," Jessica says in the new issue of Self magazine. "I let people down. But Dolly wrote me the kindest words. She said, 'I will always love you,' and 'Don't listen to what these people are saying,' and 'I can't remember those words when I sing that damn song, and I wrote it.'"
Jessie blamed her disastrous performance on being nervous after her voice cracked three months earlier while singing on the "Today" show.
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