They did not get along.
about her being Whitney's godmother and not being in attendance"libelous" to the Associated Press. She continued,"[Warwick] blatantly lied on me … fully well knowing what she was doing."
Franklin also explained why she didn't speak up about it at the time."There's been so much going on around her , around the service, around the drugs, around her andsupposed to be fighting, I didn't want to add anything to that and I didn't want to be a part of that," she said.When speaking to the Associated Press, Franklin said that she had run into Warwick the week before at a screening of a documentary about Davis at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Franklin was asked if she wanted an apology from Warwick, to which she said,"I don't care about her apology, at this point it isn't about an apology, it's about libel. We've never been friends and I don't think that Dionne has ever liked me."In response to Franklin's Associated Press comments, Warwick, now 81, said through her rep,"She will not dignify a response to the statement made by Aretha Franklin.