No Respect
The unauthorized biography about Aretha Franklin was released in 2014, and let’s just say; she wasn’t very happy about it. It was called “Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin” by David Ritz. Aretha Franklin herself referred to the biography as “trashy.” She had a few other things to say in her statement.
Source: CAAM
The singer revealed that she thinks the author has been carrying a grudge against her for a long time. She stated that his “actions are obviously vindictive because I edited out some crazy statements he had the gall to try and put in my book written 15 years ago.” Yikes! I don’t know how the situation went down, but I wouldn’t want to get on her bad side.