Aretha Franklin Skipped Whitney’s Funeral After Upsetting the Family



The Queen of soul Aretha Franklin,  couldn’t attend Houston’s funeral ceremony yesterday because of ongoing health issues or so we were told… I smell a lie!!!

Franklin, 69, canceled her scheduled appearance at Houston’s funeral service, citing leg spasms, but sources and reviews note that the soul diva was fine Saturday night when she performed the second of two soldout concerts at Radio City Music Hall.

 

Sources say Franklin paid tribute to Houston during her concert — was even feeling well enough to entertain 40 of her friends at the Ritz Carlton hotel on Central Park South after Saturday’s show. Hummmmm!!!!

 

An eyewitness says Franklin, sporting a curly blond hairstyle, arrived on the arm of her on-again, off-again fiance William Wilkerson.“It looked like everyone was having a great time.”

Word on the street is Franklin pissed Whitney’s mom and family off after hearing comments she made during an interview she taped with Al Roker which is said to be really why she was absence from Houston’s funeral.

The video clip is no longer available on the “Today” website, but Franklin addressed Houston’s drug problem with what sounded like veiled criticism of the tragic singer’s upbringing.

“Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home,” Franklin told Roker. “They have to make sure when they leave home, they have all the right things. She left home with all the right things, but she just kind of lost her way along the way.”

Franklin also denied she was Houston’s godmother, as the media has reported, but rather an “honorary aunt.”

Just so yall know Aretha love talking sh*t, then backtracking…

Insider noted Franklin had a good relationship with Whitney, “she should have gone to the funeral, even on a gurney,” or, at the very least, taped a tribute.

A spokesman for Cissy did not respond, but Franklin’s spokeswoman, Tracey Jordan, insisted that after Franklin’s Friday concert, “her leg had muscle lock and spasms” and the “Respect” singer “was up until 4 a.m. the next morning with pain.”

Jordan adds that Franklin walked out of Radio City “barefoot” Friday night because the swelling in one of her legs prevented her from wearing shoes. “She had to keep off her leg and keep it elevated Saturday.”

 

Watch Franklin’s “I Will Always Love You” and “The Greatest Love of All” below.




8 responses to “Aretha Franklin Skipped Whitney’s Funeral After Upsetting the Family”

  1. Ms Jessica says:

    I Don’t see a damn thing wrong with what she said, I wouldn’t recant a damn thing I said if I was her, “celebs” always recanting shit, say it, and stick by it!

  2. Ellisa says:

    What is wrong with telling the truth! It might help someone along the way! What Aretha said, was not bad or disrespectful. It was just the truth as she saw it….

  3. Ladii says:

    Nothing was wrong with what she said. She said nothing negative….another case of the media starting rumors for higher ratings and to cause a little controversy

  4. missthang84 says:

    saturday morning when it was said aretha wouldn’t be at the funeral i told my husband/ my facebook frineds. that the reason aretha wasn’t there is because the family saw the comments she made on dateline t.v. on friday night .. as i told my hubby and friends when aretha was asked those questions she shouldnt made those comments.. i saw the interview it was only 9 minutes long and i knew then it would be TROUBLE with a capital t.. aretha should have made the comments kelly price made or said she didn’t have any comments because she wasn’t around whitney during those last few days she was alive…its one thing for the media to tear whitney up all week long with the nasty comments about drug use and her falling off the wagon.. so why would aretha add gasoline to the fire..loose , aretha have forgotten how she felt a year in a half ago when her secret about her health was exposed by her so-called friend that she was talking to on the telephone and he told the tabloids she had end-stage cancer and had stomach by-pass to lose the weight..people living in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones

  5. VOICEOFREASONING says:

    ARETHA WAS WRONG FOR DOING THAT INTERVIEW DISCUSSING WHITNEY.. EVERYONE KNOW WHITNEY HAS A PROBLEM BUT YOU DONT HAVE TO KEEP PUBLICLY ADDRESSING THE ISSUE… SO MEAN OF ARETHA BUT ANYWAYS WHATS NEXT CAUSE THIS SOME CRAP!!

  6. VOICEOFREASONING says:

    @MISSTHANG84 I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU… ON EVERTHING… AREATHA YOU WAS WRONG GIRL WITH A CAPTIAL W….. THE WORLD KNOW WHITENY GOT AN ADDICTION BUT YOU DIDNT HAVE TO KEEP ADDRESSING IT….. AND IF SHE DID HAVE ONE DID YOU TRY TO HELP HELP HER… SINCE YOUR FAT EXTRA HUGE AS* TRY TO GET HER SOME HELP NO….. WHITNEY MAKE HAVE BEEN ADDICTED TO DRUGS BUT YOU ADDICTED TO FOOD AND TRUST AND BELIEVE JUST LIKE HER DRUG ADDICTION CAUGHT UP WITH HER YOUR FOOD WIIL DO THE SAME … SO HONEY GO RUNNING SOMEWHERE.!!! BEFORE YOU START RUNNING YOUR MOUTH!!

  7. lockstress says:

    In my best Dave Chapelle imitating Rick James voice…”they should have never given you n*%%ers money! This is a mess! I too agree that the family should have put forth more effort in helping her but she was grown. This is a time when you have to come together….not tear stuff apart. SMH…well…she is at peace in the Lord’s arms. May God be with her daughter who CLEARLY is heading down the wrong path if someone doesn’t pull her a life line.

  8. JENNY JONES!! says:

    WELL CLIVE DAVIS TALKED ABOUT HER BEING ON DRUGS IN HIS SPEECH AT THE FUNERAL, ARE THEY NOW MAD AT HIM TOO? GTFOH!!!!………..JENNY JONES!!!

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