Published: 18:53 BST, 28 August 2026 | Updated: 20:53 BST, 28 August 2026
Garth Brooks’s daughter is facing backlash for her ‘odd’ and ‘selfish’ Instagram post following the death of Dolly Parton at age 80 on Tuesday.
Allie Colleen, 30, took to the social media platform to honor the singer but many commenters were confounded by the tribute.
Colleen, who is a country singer herself, shared a text post that started by saying her ‘greatest fear in life’ is the day her father dies.
‘And I have to see the world mourn a man they never knew the way I knew him,’ the 30-year-old told her followers.
Brooks had Colleen with his former wife, Sandy Mahl, to whom he was married from 1986 to 2001.
Garth Brooks’s daughter is facing backlash for her ‘odd’ and ‘selfish’ Instagram post following the death of Dolly Parton
Parton died at age 80 on Tuesday and country singer Colleen shared her feelings online
The note was partially addressing Parton's ‘personal family and friends,' saying 'you have all my love and condolences today and forever going forward’
'To the personal family and friends of Mrs Dolly, you have all my love and condolences today and forever going forward,’ she added.
‘What a huge, beautiful, special life to have loved and to grieve. Thank you for sharing her with us all.’
Parton enjoyed an illustrious music career that spanned an incredible seven decades and was arguably best known for her hits Jolene and 9 to 5.
Colleen’s text post called the music icon’s life a 'huge, beautiful, special' one to have loved and grieved before thanking Parton’s loved ones for sharing her with the world.
A further note in the caption of her post went on to say ‘what a beautiful privilege it is to mourn.’
She added: ‘To grieve is to know you loved deeply and fully. To the woman we all love, and all those who grieve for her— I love you all.’
