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Elle King<\/a>\u00a0is speaking out about <\/span>her drunk performance<\/a>. On the latest episode of <\/span>iHeartPodcast’s\u00a0Dear Chelsea<\/em><\/a>, King told host <\/span>Chelsea Handler<\/a> what really happened the “really crazy” night she performed a <\/span>Dolly Parton<\/a> tribute at the Grand Ole Opry while drunk.<\/span><\/p>\n “So I did a big no, no. I not only cussed on stage, hammered at the Grand Ole Opry, but it was Dolly Parton’s birthday and the Opry was doing a Dolly Parton tribute,” King said. “I haven’t spoken about it because, one, I had to just chill… I had been going through <\/span>something very heavy and traumatic in my life<\/a> at the time, and that day was a really big day dealing with what I was going through, and then I’m still going through, and I suffer from like severe PTSD.”<\/span><\/p>\n The day of the January incident, King recalled, “I hadn’t eaten, I hadn’t slept in days, and I was really overwhelmed. I was like a shell of myself.” King noted that she wasn’t supposed to perform that night, but “this other singer who’s supposed to be the headliner backed out like three hours before, and they asked me if I would sing, if I would be the headliner and sing ‘Jolene.'”<\/span><\/p>\n King immediately agreed because she knew the iconic track. The first of the night’s two performance went “f**king perfect,” King said, noting that the trouble started with the late show of the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n “I take one shot too many and I’m just not there in my body. I’m not there. I don’t remember it,” she said. “… I know now what I said. I said, ‘I’m Elle King and I’m f**king hammered.’ I got the curtain dropped on me. I just get like flashes of this. I was totally, 100 percent, disassociated. I just cut to the dressing room, me on the floor just sobbing, ‘What have I done?’ And then the next day it was like everywhere. Everywhere.”<\/span><\/p>\n Afterwards, <\/span>the Opry said<\/a>\u00a0that they “deeply regret and apologize for the language that was used” during King’s performance, and the singer <\/span>postponed her upcoming concerts<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n “I was mortified,” King said. “I hand wrote an apology letter to the Opry. I hand wrote an apology letter to Dolly.”<\/span><\/p>\n Parton wasn’t upset about the performance. In fact, when she called King days later, the singer declared Parton as “literally proof that angels exist.”<\/span><\/p>\n “She just gave me really kind words and told me, ‘Well, Dolly’s not mad at you, why should the world be?'” King recalled. “[She] made me laugh. That’s the kindness from women.”<\/span><\/p>\n “That’s the stuff that I’ve received that I’ll never forget, ever, because I wanted to f**king die,” she continued. “I had to like remove myself from the population for a while, because it just it wasn’t getting any better.”<\/span><\/p>\n King added, “Regardless of what I was doing in my life and what was happening to me — that I don’t feel like I owe to anybody in the f**king world to try and explain — I also don’t think that it does excuse the fact that maybe I shouldn’t have f**king been drinking.”<\/span><\/p>\n “This is like a sacred stage and I f**ked up,” she admitted. “For all the people who are asking for an apology from me, hey, if you were there that night and I didn’t get a chance to say I’m sorry to you, I apologize.”<\/span><\/p>\n