Aretha Franklin's 'Forever Friend' Willie Wilkerson Dies of COVID-19 at 72
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billboard.comWhen Willie Wilkerson Jr. first met Aretha Franklin -- whom she called her "forever friend" -- during the mid-80s, his daughters say he wasn't sure who she was.The two were living at Detroit's Riverfront Apartments and were each outside getting some air, Wilkerson with his leg in a cast.
Franklin motioned for him to come over and signed his cast, and that began a relationship that lasted until Franklin's death in August of 2018, with Wilkerson at her bedside."She was a very large part of his life," his youngest daughter Tequila "Tiki" Wilkerson tells Billboard. "They loved each other.
They were like best friends. They called each other sweetie. She called him all the time. There’s nothing he wouldn't do for her.
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