A mother and her daughters planned to visit the late Dolly Parton's Hollywood Walk of Fame star to leave flowers out of respect for the legendary singer-songwriter, only to discover someone had vandalized it. A woman named Lore Corona, also known online as wildsheroams.life, shared a video this week on social media of Parton’s vandalized star.
Corona said she and her daughters went to see the star during their visit to California and wanted to pay their respects to the late music icon. “One of my daughters had flowers, and we were just going to come and kind of pay our respects; you know, she has done a lot for the world basically,” Corona said in the video.
The star was damaged about 10 minutes before the mother and daughters arrived, Corona said. She showed the vandalized star, which has scratch marks over Parton’s name, then shared footage of her and her daughters cleaning the late singer’s star. “This was so sad, but we should follow her lessons to always be kind and loving. We were honored to love on her,” Corona wrote.
“When we arrived, a custodian was cleaning and told us a woman kicked candles around then with the shards of one scratched the star,” she explained. “Then a man came and stole the flowers that were there.
He left soon after we got there and we got to work.” Before the incident, the Hollywood Historic Trust, a nonprofit organization that maintains the stars on the Walk of Fame, had scheduled repairs on the star, reports NBC4 in Los Angeles. “The Hollywood Historic Trust and Hollywood Chamber of Commerce are proud to honor the legacy of Dolly Parton with a replacement of her star.
The new star will be available for viewing this Friday,” the organization stated in