The country music legend Dolly Parton has revealed that a family member had a “vision” about her future long before she ever shot to fame. The iconic singer revealed this in her new memoir “Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life In Lyrics,” which she wrote with Robert K. Oermann.

Cheat Sheet reported that Parton, 74, explained in the book that clairvoyance is common in her family.

“That kind of gift runs in our family,” she wrote, adding that her mother, Avie Lee Parton, had tons of visions that came true.

Parton remembered that one time, her mother demanded to go to Cove Bridge because she had a vision that the singer’s brother, Denver Parton, had been in a car accident. Finally, Parton’s father Robert Lee Parton agreed to visit the bridge, and sure enough, Denver had been in a crash.

“So they went over to Cove Bridge, and my brother had wrecked there,” Parton wrote. “The wheels were still spinning, that’s how fresh it was. He laid in the hospital for a year with every bone in his body broke. But my mother had a premonition.”

Parton also recalled an unnamed female relative who predicted that she was destined for great things.

“She laid her hands on me and said, ‘This child is anointed,’” Parton said of the mysterious, magical moment. “I was little, so I said, ‘Mama, what does ‘anointed’ mean?’ She said, ‘That probably means that you’re going to do great things for the Lord and do good things in life.’”

Parton said that this prediction changed her relationship with God and made her feel a responsibility to make something of herself.

“That triggered a faith in me, because I believe that I was supposed to do something good…I never let go of that because I always felt responsible to God that I was supposed to be doing something for God,”                                                                                        she explained. “And so I still feel like that. And I’m still doing it. Trying to.”

“I really feel like I have a calling,” Parton added. “I feel like God had told me early on in a feeling that I was supposed to go till He told me to stop and He said nothing yet about quitting. And so I ain’t said nothing about retiring yet.”