Ashley McBryde – credit Daniel Meigs
Ashley McBryde Almost Burned Dolly Parton’s House To The Ground
When Ashley McBryde sees Dolly Parton she walks the other way.
Why? Because she doesn’t want to remind Dolly about the time, she almost burned her house down!
It happened about 10 years ago when she was new to Nashville.
“I caught her microwave on fire. I got this gig helping as they remodeled her lake house. My job was to stay there with her niece who was my buddy. We would let the wallpaper guys in and out and just do that kind of thing. Use the pool and not mess anything up. I do take the blame for it [the] because I’m the one who removed the on-fire microwave out of the house, but it was honestly her niece. She stuck a whole box of bagel bites in there — like, in the box and then ‘beep,’ there it goes in a freshly wallpapered room. So I lost my job, but Dolly gave me the microwave. She knew I was poor and didn’t have one.”
