Days after postponing a string of concert dates due to “health challenges,” Dolly Parton has confirmed she won’t be attending this year’s Motion Picture Academy Governors Awards to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

While Parton is not traveling to Los Angeles for the Nov. 16 ceremony, a representative for the 79-year-old entertainment icon says that she will accept the honorary Oscar remotely from her Nashville home.

Parton’s absence from the Governors Awards has nothing to do with her health, per Entertainment Weekly. According to the publication, Parton’s team informed the Academy in June — the same month she was announced as an honorary Oscar recipient along with Debbie Allen, Tom Cruise, and production designer Wynn Thomas — that she had a “scheduling conflict” and would be unable to attend in person, and they requested that her award be postponed a year. No immediate word from the Academy on why the organization decided to proceed without Parton.

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recognizes “an individual in the motion picture arts and sciences whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry by promoting human welfare and contributing to rectifying inequities.”

A two-time Oscar nominee for songwriting, Parton has established numerous charitable and philanthropic organizations, including the Dollywood Foundation, which was created in 1988 to inspire the children of of her home state of Tennessee to achieve educational success. Launched in 1995, her literacy program “Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library” has provided 285 million books to children and has evolved into an international movement. In announcing the honor, Academy President Janet Yang said the “beloved” Parton “exemplifies the spirit of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award through her unwavering dedication to charitable efforts.”

The 9 to 5 star/theme singer surprised fans when she announced Sunday on Instagram that she was nixing a series of heavily hyped gigs in Las Vegas.

“As many of you know, I’ve been dealing with some health challenges, and my doctors tell me that I must have a few procedures. As I joked with them, it must be time for my 100,000-mile check-up, although it’s not the usual trip to see my plastic surgeon!” she wrote.

“In all seriousness, given this, I am not going to be able to rehearse and put together the show that I want you to see, and the show that you deserve to see,” she continued. “You pay good money to see me perform, and I want to be at my best for you. While I’ll still be able to work on all of my projects from here in Nashville, I just need a little time to get show ready, as they say. And don’t worry about me quittin’ the business because God hasn’t said anything about stopping yet. But, I believe He is telling me to slow down right now so I can be ready for more big adventures with all of you. I love you and thank you for understanding.”

The half-dozen shows had been slated for December; they were postponed until September 2026.

It has been a trying year for the legendary performer. Last month, Parton missed an appearance at Dollywood due to a kidney stone. She has also been mourning her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean, who died in March at age 82. Appearing on Khloé Kardashian’s podcast in July, Parton said she needed to take time away from music to grieve.