As my grandmother used to say, “When you’re around preachers, hang on tight to your panties and your purse.”

He was not a ladies man he was a pervert. He was a devil PERIOD!

You know you caught when Ray Charles say he saw you😂😂😂

May her name, her legacy, legend and soul rest in peace.

My dad was also a pastor. He knew him. I believe it. Dad said Franklin was no damn good 😮

The weight she carried was years of deep rooted depression.

What's mind-boggling is the fact that a 12 year old (CHILD) is being blamed for all this 😩😩😩

Typically, “wild and promiscuous” children are those that have been sexualized at an early age. Due to the confusion of that trauma, the grooming and the desire for acceptance and love, they act out in ways we label fast, wild, promiscuous. It’s not typical for a child who has been protected to “behave” in a promiscuous nature. Just like any other behaviors a child picks up, they are typically observed/experienced and then acted out.

I think her father separating the children from their mother was the first red flag.🚩

Im looking at my 13yr old babygirl standing in the kitchen frying her fries and smiling❤, I could not imagine her having a baby at that age. The thought of a grown man preying on a innocent child disgusts me. That is just nasty and he should have been locked up, he couldn't have been too much of a God fearing man wanting to harm kids in this way

Every little girl needs a mother Damn that hit me hard! I wish I had a “mother” I wish I had a family 😢

I was always told that her father was the oldest kids father and she never tried to correct it. I always thought that her father had something to do with her mother's passing too. He did a lot of cruel things he suffered and died in a horrible way. You reap what you sow.

The fact that her father never went after some other grown man for knocking his daughter up should tell you all you need to know

Aretha Franklin said out of her own mouth, that all of her kids were named after their father's. So do the math!

Familial molestation happens frequently. First, her mother deserted her. That was the beginning of the tragedy. Then her charlatan father, who was obsessed with fame, completed the tragic circle. Her lyrics were indicative of the tragedy she lived. “Respect “ was what she desired. God has granted her respite from this hell on earth. 🙏🏽♥️

This was something that was said long ago and it was strange that him being a preacher he didn’t even bring law enforcement into it considering Aretha was a kid herself. What father would allow a grown man to get away with that. I was more convinced after watching the movie and that guy they claimed was her baby’s father was just a scapegoat. And her son has some issue from birth as well possible due to allegation that her father is the daddy.

My mother just died at 86. Her best friend was a music industry executive. She said this is true. 😥

To know the truth is to know how truly vile this world is.

I really grew up liking her voice and confidence on stage. Whatever happened in her past, God Bless they souls. Every time I go places people stop in their tracks and say “you look like Aretha” I’ve heard it so much I already know what they are going to say. Be Blessed to her family!

My parents said the same thing about Aretha dad being the father of her child. My parents were born 1920s and they been saying this since I was a child. My oldest sister was born in 48 and all my older siblings and relatives been saying this about her father. .

The disgusting thing is that the good Christian black folks continued to follow and respect her father. That's a sickness that we accept foul deviated behavior because some of us are desperate for leadership.

I have wanted to do commentary on this issue for months! My godmother said the same thing when the movie "RESPECT" hit theaters. And she's not one to gossip. Aretha will always be remembered for her iconic voice and will definitely be respected as such. However, having a baby at 13 years old and never revealing the father is definitely SUSPICIOUS by itself! Her father should have never been accepting of his 13 year old having a kid. Just because her father was a preacher, DOES NOT MEAN, he was holy or anointed. Anybody can quote a scripture and give a great speech... including the devil himself!

Saying her Dad is her child's father, is something that requires proof. Yes, it seems her life was broken, but it didn't break her down. I admire her strength. Thank you Aretha for wonderful entertainment. May you enjoy peace that only God can give.♥️🌹

When I first heard Aretha got pregnant so young,I right away suspected the father because he was so over protective and controlling. Now watching this, I'm more convinced.

Either way , she was 12 and still a child, she was abused sexually by some grown man that is SICK that’s never said and couldn’t control himself. She lived an entire life and she did her music well, she had a great deal of class as far as I’m concerned and she enjoyed being a woman. No doubt she was the Queen of Soul and always will be it’s a shame that men back then were never held accountable for the sick and grotesque behavior they carried and the ones who didn’t but kept quiet we’re just as bad it’s sick to me hoe ppl say she was so fast back then but not how sick the men around her were as if this stupid mess was her fault SMH

Whatever, happened... Aretha Franklin, will still remain the greatest Soul and R&B Singer. She still remains a legendary, Icon. Thank you! Aretha, in... bringing us so many Great songs and music.🌷🌷🌷

If this is true, it is a testament to her strength. If it consimed her we did not know it. She still managed to have an amazing life. She truly was a queen.

Her mother likely died of a broken heart since she was not strong enough to take her girls with her. Ladies', fight for your babies with everything you've got especially if you have little girls. If it's joint custody it's one thing but always make sure you have access to your children. So sad.

I don't know if HER father is the baby's dad, but she named him after her father and put Jr At the end. And her son WAS born with something wrong with him. They say when the blood is Too close this is bound to happen 🤷🏽. But through it all she Adored her father.❤ I can't understand why her father didn't go to jail for what he was doing with these young girls 🤷🏽

There will never be another Aretha Franklin ❤

Aretha was a victim and she lived in shame for something that wasn’t her fault. She didn’t want to judged by this cruel world. She suffered from much rejections, abandonment, molestation and self hatred. No one in her circle loved her enough to get her some help from all of those howling wolves that was preyed on her as a sex object at such a very young age. If she had gotten pregnant at 12 years of age then her molester started funneling her very early during her life. Her sexual appetite was a sign that she was looking for someone to love her, this is what she was taught. This is the lies that her daddy taught her that Sex is object of love. I hated this woman didn’t get the chance to know that she did nothing wrong, it wasn’t her fault and that she was groomed to become what she was. She must thought that God was a joke because of her preaching dad and the other so call believers! She had no protections at all!

"Dirty old man, always up onnnnnnn me" Rock With Me...Franklin

My fam in Detroit was directly involved with CL and OMG this story confirmed everything I was told growing. And I've been a witness to gospel singers sexual behavior personally and what you said wad absolutely true.... Great Job!

Her oldest child did have all the genetics features usually associated with incest, or maybe it was because of her young undeveloped body. Even her biographical movie (with Jennifer Hudson) approved by her and her family danced around the subject. Either way she was a victim.

It is such a shame that children are not protected from sexual abuse and grown men, who should of been protecting them, talk about them like trash and as if their feelings don't count. These men need to be held accountable for rape and robbing children of their childhood.

I had to stop it to get 🍿, Honey my ears, were full 😮, I hung on to every word. Very interesting never once was I bord, this was amazing can't wait to hear more. Stay blessed ❤

As a survivor of molestation by family members and their friends. Sad thing ppl knew, no one helped. My heart goes out to her and her sisters. To their mom. Just know NOT ALL BLACK CHURCHES WILL PUT UP WITH THIS NON SENSE. After seeing this movie. I was shocked. Now I understand why she sang the way she did. RIP MRS. FRANKLIN

I believe Sam Cook was one of the dads. However, It seems very suspect that her father wasn't mad and go after the guy that had his 12-years-old daughter pregnant.

I’ve thought this for sooo long!!!

Great job!

I loved Aretha Franklin dearly and she was the best and her voice was gold and may God rest her beautiful soul❤️❤️

Not my girl Etta spilling the tapes🤣. Her autobiography "A Rage to Survive" is great! Brutally honest Etta through and through!!!

That was deep something to think about🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

wow, I did not know all this! Very fascinating and sad all at the same time! Rest Peacefully Ms Aretha!

It's definitely a sad situation.. I believe her music was an outlet for her fast life... The child suffered from depression over her mother's leaving and passing. She never got the proper help or healing and grown men PREYED on that, unfortunately. So sad and hurtful.

I WAS BORN IN 1962 AND AS LITTLE GIRL I REMEMBER MY MOM AND HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS TALKING ABOUT HOW RUMOR HAS IT THAT ARETHA DADDY WAS THE FATHER OF HER FIRST BABY AND HOW IT WAS A SHAME THAT HER FATHER MESSED WITH YOUNG GIRLS IN HIS CHURCH THESE WERE LITTLE GIRL'S LIKE 11 AND 12 I WAS ABOUT 6 OR 7 I REMEMBER THEY SAID HE HAD TO KEEP MOVING HIS CHURCHES BECAUSE HE WOULD BE RAN OUT OF TOWN FOR MESSIN WITH LITTLE GIRLS.😊

FINALLY!!! This topic I have wondered about for so many years! I've always thought he fathered her children. She was always with her father and how would she be allowed the freedom to go out and mess around with any boys her age? I've heard so many disgusting stories about her father's trule lifestyle and behaviors.

100% correct, he was his daughter baby daddy. She was first cousin to my deceased husband first wife. And they lived in MS and they told me the entire story. He left MS, Memphis, Chicago for impersonating three young girl in those places. My deceased husband knew Franklin real well, he married d into the family part of

Who hasn't heard about old CL? Older people, use to tell me, when he came to Chicago, he use to have MANY women visiting him at the Manor House on South Park, (now King Drive.) I also knew a man that use to sell him suits.

Why not do DNAs and put ALL speculation to rest?!?!

He didn't answer for it down here but he will up there we all will.

Very interesting thank you.

This was the most thorough rendition of the situation I have heard. Very sad and somewhat unbelievable that this man was considered a minister AND never jailed for impregnating a 12 year old in his church. I just can't figure that out.

It made me really think when she had to memorize “Nessun Dorma” In so many words she said she had some secrets none shall know….It just make you think on all levels what really happened🤔🤔 RIP Queen🙏🏾🕊️

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I BELIEVE THE RUMORS. WHERE THERE'S SMOKE THERE'S FIRE.

I still believe Cecil is both the fathers and grandfather

1st. This was never a secret, so no one's JUST TARNISHING her name. 2nd. From what everyone has always said about CL Franklin, I find it hard to believe that this pistol toting arrogant narcissist would allow anyone to violate his precious golden Goose, and he just let it go. He was a hustling gangster in the palpit. That child molester who allegedly impregnated her would have had a bullet in him. Read between the lines.

I enjoyed this video I was wondering if you could do a part 2 because I think it's more to talk about . I love Aretha Franklin music she is and will always be the queen of soul but a lot of things we still don't know about her 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😔😔😔😔😔

This was very interesting about Aretha Franklin.

Her eldest son was special needs !! She definitely had her fathers son forsure !! She just didn’t wanna get his old sick ass in trouble

Rest in peace QUEEN!!

Now that title is DEFINITELY some tea 😮

😢I swear this is the reason I stayed single raising my kids

It is heavily speculated that Aretha’s mother, Barbara never got over Rev. Franklin’s fathering a child by a 12 year old girl and that’s what brought the strain on the marriage. Then the constant rumors of his womanizing. Mahalia Jackson and Barbara Siggers Franklin were good friends, so after Barbara died Mahalia visited the children as often as she could, but she apparently never fully trusted their father.

Her father was her baby's daddy. I talked to a lady I used to work with and she said Aretha was her classmate. Everybody knew it was her father.

Please protect your children 🙏

Everyone around knew so I blame them too poor Aritha

I always suspected that the public was given a palatable lie about C L Franklin’s home assault that left him in a coma. I wonder if some disgruntled husband, angered by C L’s dalliance with his wife, planned to kill him in retaliation. At time time Aretha wasn’t doing a lot of touring and was no longer living in the City of Detroit but in its suburbs. To pay for his in-home care, she ratcheted up her touring schedule. Given the information contained in this video, it is impossible to understand how Aretha was loyal to a father who robbed her of her childhood and education. I once heard Aretha give a radio interview to NPR’s Terry Gross. Aretha rarely gave interviews. I can understand why. Aretha created a fictional story of her life that she began to believe as true. She deleted from her memory the circumstances of her first two pregnancies. She deleted her alcoholism and treatment. The Franklin family pledged to conceal Aretha’s private demons of jealousy and deceit. Her public image would have been ruined. Times were different. People who knew the facts abhorred the notion if airing one’s dirty laundry. As a young person I harbored a secret fantasy of what it would be like to be rich and famous. But when their lives are examined, they paid a very high price for a glamorous life.

Disgusting behavior in some families…

THANKS SO MUCH, AT TIMES ALTHOUGH WE MAY DO A CERTAIN THING FOR THE NORM IT COULD VERY WELL LIFT ONE PERSON HEAVY THOUGHTS, GOD BLESS YOU, CONTINUE YOUR POSITIVITY, INSPIRING OTHERS, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU& YOUR FAMILY, MAY IT BE PROSPEROUS IN EVERY ASPECT 🤍

Yes Truth Needs to Be Exposed

Rest in love Queen. You were one of the best!! ❤❤

I will never listen to the song Respect in the same way again. Rest in Power and Peace.

Never knew, but the info in this video is so very sad and disturbing. I so loved Aretha and thank God for the beautiful music she😊 shared with the world. She was truly a gift to the music industry and all that would listen. She may not be her physically, but her music still lives on….❤❤❤

This is well-known in the Metro Detroit area. I knew an older woman who was a nurse at one of her sons homes. She is passed, but said this same story and that all of the medical staff were aware. Very sad. Sam Cooke said the churches in Detroit were beyond wild and loose.

So many people get so in their feelings, when this is suggested. We all know this happened a lot back then. I have two cousins that are a product of this crime. They are the spitting image of their grandfather. They look nothing like their mother. They don't have any physical deformities. The people who should have been in their feelings are the ones that let this crime go on and didn't report their suspicions or known facts. The rest need to stop protecting HIM. He's gone and God took him the hard and painful way, as he should have.

Yes everybody knows that. And it was such a shock that they didn’t put it in the movie. Everybody in these southern back woods know that Aretha Franklin had a baby by her father.

I have looked into this pretty deep and it sure does look like it

ooh, I learned something new.

Excellent commentary. Thank you

It was rumored C.L. Franklin got a young girl pregnant so it would not surprise me if he got his own daughter pregnant. She named her 1st child Clarence--after his father and her father.

Ray Charles “seen” the ministers?! I knew he was fronting 😂

Yes , that story had been out for years and he used her in place of his wife her mother ‼️😢

Aretha Franklin's mother's side of the family said that her mother did not die of a heart attack she was hit by a car Reverend CL Franklin and the children never went to her pay her respect to her mother look at the mother for the last time and not to mention Ray Charles told the story before he died about dad and how he ran his church

One of my best friends was in her touring band for a year. He told me a long time ago her oldest son was by her father. He got to be pretty good friends with her oldest son. They talked a lot and confided in each other on the road. So I heard this many years ago. He said her father had his own “me too” movement. Fun fact: C.L. was from my hometown, Clarksdale, Mississippi, originally. Folks there really know how to mix it up! 🙀🙀

Rock with me song says it all

Right! I was like how is someone coming in her room without her family knowing? The movie was weird on that part.🤷🏽‍♀️

This is what grooming looks like. He didn’t like young girls he like assaulting them. Secondly a groomer can make you think you are in love with them and you are doing nothing wrong.

Aretha Franklin's father push his daughter to become a singer and find her voice and create her own songs and even she sang at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. funeral in 1968 and she also paid Angela Davis bail in 1970 and she made the best songs that everybody love and she was for the voice when women back in the day that didn't think they be heard and her music got me though some tough times in my life so thank you so thank Aretha ❤️

😮. Didn't know this...

when he said he was from Mississippi i was like yea he did that ish!

Now l understand my mom did not want me going to the church with my Nanny.She didn't like me being around that community.😢

Made a woman, the money maker and mother at twelve... Surrounded by all these adults entertainers then nicknamed fast, while all of them over exposed the child to their lifestyle, that none would wish on their own children or family. Call it grooming or trafficking, people still getting away with such til this day. Through all that she managed to stay a soulful talented graceful singer and be a lady. Those demons didn't consume or take her life, as most child prodigies in the entertainment world don't live long. In which those children were blamed for their demise and exposure by adults too... RIPower Queen of Soul

👀 i can't say the thought never crossed my mind!

It’s also said that her siblings said that, that when he found out are got pregnant he didn’t make a fuss the first or second time. That’s another red flag for me.

Rest in peace......Ms.Franklin

The daddy started rapping his daughter very young and then passing her around

The song YOU MAKE ME FEEL was likely about her daddy.

Pray Ya'll!!!!!!