Aretha Franklin has just about everyone praying for her — and that includes Steven Tyler, who’s got a sweet message for the Queen of Soul. We got Aerosmith’s frontman and his girlfriend, Aimee, on the streets of NYC Monday and it…
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Monday, August 13, 2018
Aretha Franklin: Gravely Ill from Cancer, On Death Bed
The music world may soon lose a legend.
According to multiple reports, Aretha Franklin is nearing the end of her brave battle with cancer and may pass away any day now.
The way some websites have written about it, she may even pass away any moment now.
About 18 months after Franklin announced her retirement from the recording industry, telling a Detroit TV station that she felt “exuberant” about this decision, sources tell TMZ that the singer’s health is failing.
An insider – who describes him/herself as a longtime and dear friend of the artist’s – has told TMZ that he/she was given a warning several days ago:
Prepare yourself, this personwas told, she’s dying.
The source adds Franklin was down to 86 pounds at the time this very unfortunate news was share — and that everyone in Aretha’s circle was told, about two weeks ago, that “she could go any time.”
Franklin is 76 years old.
It’s unknown at this time just which type of cancer she has reportedly been diagnosed with.
Over the last few years, Franklin has performanced on a limited basis, most recently taking to the stage last November at an Elton John AIDS Foundation event.
She is pictured in both snapshots above at this event.
The tragic news that the singer’s health is failing came from Roger Friedman over at Showbiz411; while WDIV TV in Detroit says Aretha’s family has confirmed she is gravely ill.
This, unfortunately, seems to be a confirmed report.
Franklin is known as The Queen of Soul.
One could make a convincing argument that she’s the most successful and/or influential female vocalist of all-time.
Yes, there’s Mariah Carey. Yes, there is now Beyonce.
But go ahead and ask either of those women who they admired as an aspiring singer, and then consider the following list of Franklin’s accomplishments:
– She was responsible for more than 20 number-one singles in the United States.
– She was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
– She won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance for eight consecutive years from 1968 to 1975.
– She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2005.
“I feel very enriched and satisfied with respect to where my career came from and where it is now,” Franklinonce said, in what sounds like a monumental understatement.
Roland Martin, a reporter who frequently covers Franklin, took to Twitter to share more about her condition on Monday morning.
“Many of you are asking me to confirm the health status of @ArethaFranklin,” he said, adding:
“Folks, I’ve known for several months. The Queen is surrounded by loved ones. That’s all I will say for now. Please keep her, the family and her longtime support staff in your prayers.”
Upon reading about Franklin’s potential, near-future fate, many top artists jumped on Twitter today and expressed their surprise and sorrow.
“My prayers are with Aretha Franklin & her family during this difficult time,” Tweeted Missy Elliott. “MUST CELEBRATE the Living Legends while they are here to see it. So many have given us decades of Timeless music.”
And Paula Abdul wrote:
“My love, prayers and warm thoughts are with Aretha Franklin—the Queen of Soul. I’m praying for her and her health. Thank you to all her family and friends who are standing by her and loving her through her illness.
“I’m holding you all in my heart.”
And then Carey summed up everyone’s take at the moment with the short and simple:
Praying for the Queen of Soul.
Aretha Franklin Reportedly Gravely Ill
Aretha Franklin is gravely ill and friends and family are gathering for their final goodbye … this according to several reports. Franklin, who is 76, has been in poor health over the last few years. She has performed, but only on a limited basis…
Aretha Franklin Reportedly Gravely Ill
Aretha Franklin is gravely ill and friends and family are gathering for their final goodbye … this according to several reports. Franklin, who is 76, has been in poor health over the last few years. She has performed, but only on a limited basis…
Monday, July 17, 2017
Brian Gravely: Dating Leah Messer?!
Has Leah Messer found a special new man in her life?
If you watch Teen Mom 2 online, you’re well aware that the twice-married mother of three has had a long, turbulent romantic history.
One that’s continuing with this handsome dude?
“I just love his face!” Leah captioned this image.
Indeed, it’s a nice face. One worthy of a heart-eyed and kissing emoji, which she also added along with a tag of the mystery man’s name.
Brian Gravely, according to his Instagram account, owns Famous Superstars, a South Carolina-based tumbling and cheerleading school.
Given her daughters’ interest in those activities, it would make sense that Leah Messer might have made his acquaintance somehow.
And while she clearly loves him … it’s not like that.
Leah took to Twitter to set the record straight about Brian … who had better not be her mystery man, as far as his spouse is concerned!
Yes, Brian is already married, and hopefully his husband got a kick out of this as much as the oft-maligned MTV reality star did.
Despite being linked to Scotty Ayre this spring, Leah has largely been taking time off from dating to focus on herself and her daughters.
That sigh of relief is from all of Teen Mom Nation.
The last confirmed romance Messer was in was with T.R. Dues, a personal trainer she met following her divorce from Jeremy Calvert.
That union lasted a decently long time, though he was reluctant to appear on her social media accounts, let alone be filmed for MTV.
They were rumored to be living together and his two kids were “considered to be a part of Leah’s family,” though things fizzled eventually.
The combination of her divorce from Calvert and her custody battle with her first ex-husband, Corey Simms, both led to serious strain.
“She wants to look like a stable single mom to the judge in order for her to get her girls back,” a source close to her said at the time.
T.R. Dues may have paid the price for that, as “Leah knows that it doesn’t look good for her to have a new man in the house already.”
Jeremy allegedly had some strong opinions about this setup as well, especially since he shares his only daughter, Adalynn, with Leah.
Says another family source:
“When mutual friends told Jeremy about this new guy, he called Leah and flipped out for letting a stranger hang around Addie.”
Leah initially denied the relationship with Dues, saying that it wasn’t official, only to confess later that something’s going on,” an insider said.
As we said, Messer and Dues parted ways before it became a thing – a thing that impacted her custody situation with either ex, anyway.
Speaking of Calvert, his own dalliances with Messer after their divorce may have resulted in the end of his subsequent engagement.
In a sneak peek for Teen Mom 2 (the new season of which begins tonight on MTV), we learned that Brooke Wehr read his phone records.
He explains to Leah on FaceTime that after this occurred, he “came home to all my sh-t just being everywhere” ‘cause Brooke “lost her sh-t.”
Gonna be a crazy season.
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