Aretha Franklin: I didn't have gastric bypass

That's the story the Queen of Soul's sticking to as she once again shoots down rumors about her health, this time the theory that she underwent gastric bypass surgery to drop weight...

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Surgery helped Aretha Franklin lose 85 lbs. – just not that surgery.

That’s the story the Queen of Soul’s sticking to as she once again shoots down rumors about her health, this time the theory that she underwent gastric bypass surgery to drop weight.

“Definitely not – and would not,” Franklin, 68, tells Access Hollywood in a two-part interview to air Monday and Tuesday. “I heard that [rumor]. I said, ‘That is crazy.’ ”

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