A slimmed-down Aretha Franklin, the legendary Queen of Soul, confirmed to Access Hollywood Monday that while she recently underwent a surgery, it was not a gastric bypass surgery as widely  rumored.

"Aretha, really, so you have not had gastric bypass surgery?" the show's Shaun Robinson asked the Chain of Fools singer, who replied, "Definitely not…and would not. And would not."

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"That's outstanding, because you know the rumors are out there," said Robinson. "Cancer. We heard that first … and then the gastric bypass surgery."

Said Franklin: "I heard that. I said, 'That is crazy. That is crazy.'”