Aretha Franklin: I never had cancer

Aretha Franklin spent December living through a severe health crisis, surgeries and rumors of incurable diseases...

Jan 14, 2011

Aretha Franklin spent December living through a severe health crisis, surgeries and rumors of incurable diseases, and while she’s staying vague about it, there’s one thing she wants to clear up: she didn’t have cancer.

“Well, there was just so many wild things out there and just so many things being said that weren’t true,” Franklin told Access Hollywood on Thursday. “I just felt I needed to address it a little.”

Franklin told Jet Magazine last week that it was a pain in her side that had started the whole affair.

“Yeah, the pain was so hard it almost brought me to my knees,” Franklin said.

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