CBS This Morning host Gayle King helped Mickey Guyton realize her dream of meeting her idol Dolly Parton, and it was very overwhelming for the “Better Than You Left Me” singer. You see, last year Gayle interviewed Mickey on being a newcomer and asked her who her dream duet partner would be. Mickey immediately said her No. 1 choice would be the Country Music Hall of Famer. Well, Gayle recently surprised her with an appearance by Dolly, which she’d been planning for nearly a year.

“When Dolly Parton walked into that interview, I completely freaked out. I had no clue that Gayle had been planning for me to meet Dolly for the past nine months, and I was overwhelmed with such shock that it brought me to tears because then I realized what was going on,” recalls Mickey. “Before I even walked into the interview, I was told that this was just going to be a follow-up interview and just talk to Gayle and catch up, and it just did not even cross my mind about where I was or who I was waiting for. So, I was just in complete shock, and it was a dream come true. I met a legend. I can walk away and from here on out, I can say that I met a legend, and it is such an awesome feeling.”

Mickey says meeting Dolly was a complete blur. “I heard absolutely nothing that Dolly was saying to me. It wasn’t until I watched the video later that I realized everything that she said. It was a blur. It was a complete blur, an out-of-body experience, like my life flashed before my eyes.”