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Aretha Franklin Calls Out Dionne Warwick For A Comment Made Five Years Ago

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Legendary singers Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick apparently have a few issues going on between them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;apnews&period;com&sol;7641389aaa2047b488c039ba6423f3c0&sol;Aretha-blasts-Dionne-Warwick-but-she-declines-to-fire-back&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;SocialFlow&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;Twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;APEntertainment">Associated Press<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; on Tuesday&comma; Aretha Franklin did a phone interview after she reportedly sent a lengthy fax the day before to address a &&num;8220&semi;libelous&&num;8221&semi; statement against her made five years ago at Whitney Houston’s funeral&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Franklin reportedly accused Dionne Warwick of making up a story about her being Whitney Houston’s godmother&period; During the interview&comma; Franklin said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;She blatantly lied on me &&num;8230&semi; fully well knowing what she was doing&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Back in 2012&comma; Franklin was unable to attend Houston’s funeral&period; At the time&comma; Warwick mentioned to those in attendance that Franklin had been there&period; However&comma; when Warwick realized that she wasn’t she reportedly said&comma;&&num;8221&semi;&&num;8216&semi;Ree&&num;8217&semi;s not here&comma; but she is here&period; She loves Whitney as if she were born to her&period; She is her godmother&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Days following the funeral Cissy Houston mentioned that Franklin wasn’t Whitney’s godmother&comma; and Franklin made plans to address it all at a later date&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Five years later Franklin now says&comma; &&num;8220&semi;There&&num;8217&semi;s been so much going on around her &lbrack;Houston&rsqb;&comma; around the service&comma; around the drugs&comma; around her and Bobby &lbrack;Brown&rsqb; supposed to be fighting&comma; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to add anything to that and I didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to be a part of that&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Franklin and Warwick recently saw one another at the Tribeca Film Festival for Clive Davis’ documentary&period; Franklin recalled their encounter&comma; &&num;8220&semi;She said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Give me a hug&period;&&num;8217&semi; I said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Oh hell no&period; You couldn&&num;8217&semi;t be serious&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When asked if she would be open to an apology from Warwick&comma; Franklin said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;At this point&comma; it isn&&num;8217&semi;t about an apology&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s about libel&period;” A representative for Warwick responded and said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;She will not dignify a response to the statement made by Aretha Franklin&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Who knew any of our living legends had beef in 2017&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source<&sol;strong>&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;apnews&period;com&sol;7641389aaa2047b488c039ba6423f3c0&sol;Aretha-blasts-Dionne-Warwick-but-she-declines-to-fire-back&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;SocialFlow&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;Twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;APEntertainment">https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;apnews&period;com&sol;7641389aaa2047b488c039ba6423f3c0&sol;Aretha-blasts-Dionne-Warwick-but-she-declines-to-fire-back&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;SocialFlow&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;Twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;APEntertainment<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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