9 Of Aretha Franklin’s Most Diva-ish Moments
Lies (biography)
In 2014, a biographer made some pretty salacious claims about the entire Franklin family. While the stories he told about Aretha were pretty tame—she made up lovers to keep her name in the press, the stories about her fathers and the orgies he was involved in—as he maintained his position as a pastor were outright scandalous. When someone asked Franklin about the stories in the proposed biography, she responded: “Lies, lies and more lies.”