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Loretta Lynn To Tabloids: ‘I’m An Inch From Taking Them To Fist City’

It must be annoying to watch blogs, websites and magazines report that you’re on your deathbed. Loretta Lynn had something to say about it, in a recent Instagram post. After…

NASHVILLE, TN – SEPTEMBER 19: Loretta Lynn performs during the 16th Annual Americana Music Festival & Conference at Ascend Amphitheater on September 19, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for Americana Music)

It must be annoying to watch blogs, websites and magazines report that you're on your deathbed. Loretta Lynn had something to say about it, in a recent Instagram post.

After a number of gossip-based blogs reported that Lynn is dying, Lynn responed. In a video posted to Instagram this weekend, Loretta Lynn said, "Hey, this says I'm in a nursing home and I'm on my deathbed? You're kiddin' me! I ain't dead, and neither is Willie!"

The post reads, "Well, through the years they've said I'm broke, homeless, cheating, drinking, gone crazy, terminally ill, and even dead! Poor things can't ever get it right. I guess if those old pesky tabloids are harassing me then they're giving someone else a break......but I'm about an inch from taking 'em to Fist City!"

"Fist City," of course, is Loretta Lynn's 1968 hit, in which she threatens other women who might be interested in her husband.

Brian has been working in pop culture and media for about three decades: he’s worked at MTV, VH1, SiriusXM, CBS and Loudwire. Besides working as a writer and an editor-in-chief, he’s also appeared on air as a pundit, guested on radio shows and hosted podcasts. Over the years, he’s interviewed the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, the members of U2, Beyonce, Pink, Usher, Stevie Nicks, Lorde… and is grateful to have had the chance to interview Joe Strummer of the Clash and Tom Petty.