Gladys Knight is fine, folks. Calm down.
That's according to her publicist, who on Friday afternoon rejected a comment the legendary singer made earlier in the day to a local Detroit TV station on her way into Aretha Franklin's funeral.
"We shared the fact that we had the same disease," Knight tagged onto the end of two minutes' worth of comments to WDIV-TV about her late friend _ but the 74-year-old singer apparently didn't mean it literally.
"She's healthy. Someone must have misinterpreted," Knight publicist Javier Delgado told Detroit Free Press on Friday. Alas, some outlets had already run with the story.
Delgado talked to the Detroit News as well, saying, "Maybe she meant she feels her pain. But she does not have cancer."
His clarifications came while Franklin's funeral was still unfolding at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, while Knight presumably sat in the audience.
