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‘Respect’ Fact Check: How Did Aretha Franklin Get Pregnant as a Preteen?

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(The following post contains SPOILERS for the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect”)The new Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” shows the Queen of Soul grappling with fame, fortune, finding the right note at the start of her career and everything that followed.

But it offers little clarity around one of the most poignant parts of her young life — Franklin’s becoming pregnant as an adolescent, whether willingly or otherwise.In the opening of the film directed by Liesl Tommy, we meet a 10-year-old Aretha (played by 12-year-old Skye Dakota Turner) whose preacher father (Forest Whitaker) brings her downstairs to a party full of famous people and asks her to sing for everybody.

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