New Film Details Whitney Houston’s Bisexual Relationship With Assistant Robyn Crawford
Courtesy of People Magazine.
Whitney Houston’s long-rumored romance with best friend and assistant Robyn Crawford has been talked about for some time now. And we all know how her family felt about it.
In fact, when Oprah mentioned it to her mom Cissy, the matriarch said show would never approve of it. Watch a snidbit here:
Now, a new movie documentary called Whitney: Can I Be Me details never-before-seen footage, while examining a side to the legend: her relationship with Robyn as being a real one, full of love and true emotional bonds.
The movie had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, and while Robyn was not directly involved in the production, the film features new and archival in-depth interviews from family members and those closest to Whitney, obviously pointing to the fact that she and Robin’s relationship was more than platonic.
“I don’t think she was gay, I think she was bisexual,” Whitney’s friend and stylist Ellen Lavar said in the movie. “Robyn provided a safe place for her…in that Whitney found safety and solace.”
The two first met in New Jersey when they were teenagers. Even when Whitney and Bobby Brown were married, Robyn was apparently in the middle of them all the time. And around 1999, Robyn and Bobby reached a breaking point.
“Bobby Brown and Robyn Crawford were like fire and ice. They hated each other,” said David Roberts, Whitney’s former bodyguard, on whom The Bodyguard was loosely based. “They’d battle for her affections. Bobby and Robyn had some physical altercations and there were times where he wasn’t always the winner. But then Whitney would always come and pour oil over troubled waters,”
“Robyn and Whitney were like twins,” says Kevin Ammons, who worked security for Houston. “They were inseparable. They had a bond and Bobby Brown could never remove Robyn. He wanted to be the man in the relationship.”
H/T: People