Gladys Knight is considering legal options after her son, Shanga Hankerson, branded her tour schedule ‘detrimental’ to her health.

The 81-year-old legend is set to resume her Queens Tour in the US next month and has insisted she is ‘healthy and happy’ despite her son’s claims.

Hankerson, 49, alleged that Knight’s husband William McDowell — who is 33 years her junior — was mentally and financially abusing her.

He told The Shade Room: ‘I don’t want my mom out on tour on a tour bus wondering where she’s at.’

After this, Hankerson claimed he had filed a complaint with North Carolina’s Department of Human Services and that an investigation is underway.

Knight hit back at this and reassured worried fans that her health and the tour had been ‘misrepresented’. ‘I want my fans and those concer

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