Back 2012 Aretha Franklin was a no-show at Whitney Houston's funeral, even though Whitney's aunt Dionne Warwick introduced Aretha as her godmother, but then had to awkwardly announce that Aretha wasn't there [click here if you missed that].
Apparently Aretha is still upset about it...
From the AP
The Queen of Soul is coming out swinging against fellow legend Dionne Warwick, accusing her of making up a story that she was Whitney Houston's godmother, even though the alleged offense happened five years ago at Houston's funeral.
"She blatantly lied on me ... fully well knowing what she was doing," Aretha Franklin said in a phone interview....
Franklin saw Warwick last week at the Tribeca Film Festival's premiere of mentor Clive Davis' documentary, "Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives," and she also performed. Franklin said Warwick tried to talk to her backstage.
"She said, 'Give me a hug.' I said, 'Oh hell no. You couldn't be serious,'" Franklin said.
When asked if she wanted an apology from Warwick, she said: "I don't care about her apology, at this point it isn't about an apology, it's about libel."
She added: "We've never been friends and I don't think that Dionne has ever liked me."
Franklin once covered Warwick's hit "Walk on By," and, more famously, "I Say A Little Prayer."
When asked for comment, Warwick's representative Angelo Ellerbee said: "She will not dignify a response to the statement made by Aretha Franklin."
