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Elle King Says She's the 'Best Version' of Herself After Drunken Dolly Parton Tribute: 'I'm Very Happy'

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Elle King said she's the 'best version' of herself after her controversial drunken performance at the Dolly Parton tribute.

Sept. 21 2024, Published 11:00 a.m. ET

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Elle King is back on track after a drunken mishap.

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Elle King was drunk at Dolly Parton's tribute event.

After spending some time healing from the public’s criticism, the artist said she is “the best version of myself now.”

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“I felt so afraid to ever have a drink before I go onstage again because I appreciated someone buying tickets to my concert. I wasn’t going to let them down," she said in a new interview.

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As OK! previously reported, the country singer received some negative reactions following her drunk performance at Dolly Parton's birthday tribute concert at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in January.

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Dolly Parton didn't make a big deal out of the situation.

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“Try having something bad you did go f---ing viral — that was pretty hard,” King explained of how she felt. “High level of pain.”

“I never thought that a single human being would ever buy a ticket to my show again. But they do,” she added.

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Elle King 'cussed' on stage at Dolly Parton's event.

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This isn't the first time King has spoken out about the incident. In May, she admitted she was "mortified" after making a fool of herself.

"Not only did I cuss on stage, hammered, at the Grand Ole Opry, but it was Dolly Parton's birthday and the Opry was doing a Dolly Parton tribute," she said during a guest appearance on Chelsea Handler's "Dear Chelsea" podcast.

"I had been going through something very heavy and traumatic in my life at the time," King continued. "That day was a really big day dealing with what I was going through and am still going through, and I suffer from severe PTSD."

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However, it seems like King learned her lesson, as she's finally in a good place and leaning on her partner, Daniel Tooker, and their 3-year-old son, Lucky.

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The singer said she's 'very happy' now.

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"I'm doing things that make me proud of myself," she said to People. "I've got a small son. He's going to find out about all this one day, and he's going to see that I tried to be just the best version of myself, and I used it to make myself better, and I did. It's more of a love story of self than anything."

Added King: "I'm very happy, I'm very content, which is nice, and I don't know if I've ever really felt that, so it's a blessing ... This is worth all the effort in the world. My family, this is what deserves all the energy and effort. All this other s--- is just a plus."

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