Say a little prayer for Aretha Franklin, Soul Goddess, who — despite flyin’-high-and-blessed after belting “Amazing Grace” for the Pope — STILL sticks to her life-long, no-fly plane phobia, even though at 73 she needs comfy travel due to an ongoing “mysterious health issue!”
Said My Soul Spy: “Aretha’s family keeps begging her to fly, but she insisted on taking a grueling, multi-day bus ride from Detroit to LA for several concerts — ending up so exhausted she had to cancel her Las Vegas show at Caesars Palace. She’s still got gigs booked in Tennessee and Oklahoma, but the plane-phobic Queen of Soul WILL bus it, stubbornly telling family: ‘I spent my life avoiding airplanes, so DON’T think I’m gonna get on one now! I’m not ready to meet My Maker!’”
