CNN offered a mea culpa after the network mistakenly aired a photo of aDolly Partonimpersonator during its coverage of the death of the American icon.

Parton diedTuesday at age 80 after a brief battle with cancer. Her death sent shock waves around the world, millions paying tribute to the country music legend.

On Tuesday's installment of \"Laura Coates Live,\" a montage of photos appeared onscreen as CNN correspondent Shimon Prokupecz was reporting live from Nashville.

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However, among them was an image of Patron tribute artist Kelly Vohnn seen attending a screening last year of \"Song Sung Blue,\" a film about the real-life Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson.

\"We regret the error and apologize to the Parton family,\" a CNN spokesperson toldFox News Digital.

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Vohnn spoke with the New York Post about how her phone began blowing up after her image appeared on CNN, calling the experience \"weird.\"

\"I started getting all these texts in from friends saying that I was on CNN, and I couldn’t believe it,\" the Canadian-born impersonatortold the Post. \"I felt so sorry and apologetic for Dolly ... and CNN just picked something not appropriate.

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\"It was quite embarrassing, to be honest.\"

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CNN Apologizes for Showing Dolly Parton Impersonator

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