Garth Brooks' daughter Allie Colleen is facing a wave of online backlash after her Instagram tribute to Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80 following a brief, private battle with cancer, struck many fans as making the moment about her own father instead.

The 30-year-old country singer wrote in her tribute: "My greatest fear in life is the day my Dad loses his life and I have to see the world mourn a man they never knew the way I knew him," a line that quickly drew criticism from commenters who felt she had redirected a moment of collective mourning for Parton into a statement about her own anticipated grief, according to Yahoo Entertainment.

'Narcissistic' and 'Gross'

Critics online branded the post "narcissistic" and "gross," with several commenters questioning whether Colleen was implying that fans who never personally knew Parton are not entitled to grieve her the same way loved ones would, per Unilad.

I WOULD NEVER ACT LIKE I UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH YOU GRIEVE ANYONE.

Colleen pushed back against the criticism in the comments of her own post, clarifying that she wasn't trying to diminish how deeply fans were mourning Parton. "I would never act like I understand how much you grieve anyone — that's all I am saying," she wrote, according to MSN.

The backlash comes amid an outpouring of tributes to Parton from across music, film and politics. Her goddaughter Miley Cyrus wrote that "the feeling of losing my Aunt Dolly is beyond what feels right to share," while Taylor Swift said "a world without Dolly doesn't feel possible, real, or right." President Trump ordered flags lowered for a week in her honor, and former President Bill Clinton called her "one of a kind." Against that backdrop of near-universal grief, Colleen's post stood out to critics as an unwelcome pivot to her own family's future loss rather than a tribute to Parton herself.