Music icon Dolly Parton opened up this week about her struggles with songwriting following her husband’s death. The country singer’s husband, Carl Thomas Dean, died in March at the age of 82. Parton, 79, sat down with Khloé Kardashian for an episode of her podcast, “Khloé in Wonder Land,” to discuss her work, past, present and future.

Parton and Dean "could just be in the house all day and say two or three words — didn’t matter," the country icon told Khloé Kardashian