Aretha Franklin didn't use gastic band!

Aretha Franklin insists her recent weight-loss isn’t down to gastric bypass surgery.

The Queen of Soul has lose 85 lbs.

“Definitely not and would not,” Franklin, 68, told Access Hollywood when quizzed about the gastric band rumors.

“I heard that [rumor]. I said, ‘That is crazy.’”

Aretha who underwent a mysterious surgical procedure in December for reasons she refuses to reveal said she was “not going to even deal with” rumors that she had pancreatic cancer and that the the weight came off “from the surgery that I had,” although she did not specify the procedure.

“But it definitely was not the bariatric or, what is it, gastric by Yeah, I can’t even tell you the correct name of it,” she says, adding, “It’s really not necessary to talk about one’s personal medical [health].”