DAMN! ETTA JAMES IS TERMINALLY ILL!

Iconic soul singer Etta James, best known for her 1961 hit “At Last,” is now terminally ill, her live-in doctor said Friday.

Dr. Elaine James, who isn't related to the 73-year-old entertainer, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that the singer's chronic leukemia was declared incurable two weeks ago.

The doctor has been caring for Etta James since March 2010 at the singer's Riverside, Calif. area home, where she's now under 24-hour medical care and has been placed on oxygen.

“She's in the final stages of leukemia. She has also been diagnosed with dementia and Hepatitis C,” the singer’s longtime manager Lupe De Leon said. “Her husband is with her 24 hours a day, and her sons visit regularly. We're all very sad. We're just waiting."

The doctor said she's spreading word of the singer's condition so others will pray for her. She said fans knew Etta James had been sick "but not how sick."

Court records in the singer’s probate case also show she suffers kidney failure.

Her physician made the comments outside a conservatorship hearing over the singer’s $1 million estate. The singer’s son, Donto James, is asking for a conservator rather than the singer’s husband, Artis Mills.

Etta James was back in the spotlight in 2009 when President Obama asked Beyoncé to sing “At Last” for his first inaugural dance with wife Michelle.

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