KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Dolly Parton’s sister attempted to clarify remarks she made concerning Parton’s health, writing Tuesday night on Facebook that she “didn’t mean to scare anyone” with an earlier post.

Freida Parton, earlier that day, had said her sister “hasn’t been feeling her best lately,” sparking concern among fans. (Dolly Parton had recently postponed some of her upcoming concert dates amid “health challenges,” she announced in late September.)

Freida Parton’s initial post had asked her fans “to be prayer warriors and pray with me.”

“She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you!” Freida Parton wrote.

That night, however, Freida Parton shared another post on Facebook clarifying her earlier remarks.

“I want to clear something up,” Freida Parton wrote in the Tuesday night post. “I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers for Dolly. She’s been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up. Your love truly makes a difference.”

Speaking with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a representative for Dolly Parton said the singer is merely waiting for a surgery to address issues with kidney stones.

“It’s just the kidney stones, and the procedure she needs to resolve those,” the representative told the outlet. “It looks like her sister posted, and it got quite a bit blown out of proportion, weirdly.”

Dolly Parton, 79, performs on occasion but hasn’t toured since her “Pure & Simple Tour” ended in 2016. Last month, she also missed the announcement of the latest attraction at Dollywood, her Tennessee theme park, mentioning health issues.

“I had a kidney stone that was causing me a lot of problems, turned out it’d given me an infection, and the doctor said, ‘You don’t need to be traveling right this minute, so you need a few days to get better,’” Parton said in a video announcement at the time. “So, he suggested I not go to Dollywood today, but I’m there with you in spirit. I was looking so forward to it.”

Parton’s husband, Carl Dean, died in March at age 82. The pair had been married for nearly 60 years.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.