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​Whitney Houston’s teenage affair revealed ​

The upcoming Whitney Houston biopic confirms one of the biggest rumours about the legendary late singer’s life.

Clive Davis and the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody confirm longstanding rumours about the late icon’s relationship with assistant Robyn Crawford.

“The movie does set the record straight. They did have a teenage, one-year affair,” Davis said in a new interview with Extra that aired Thursday, as reported by Page Six.
 

Robyn Crawford with Houston in 1988. Picture: Dave Hogan/Getty Images.
Robyn Crawford with Houston in 1988. Picture: Dave Hogan/Getty Images.


Davis is a producer on the biopic starring British actress Naomi Ackie as Houston, and Stanley Tucci as the legendary music exec.

The film, which premieres Friday, chronicles Houston’s chart-topping success, and the highs and lows of her personal life, including motherhood, her drug addiction and tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown.

Davis told Extra the film highlighted her relationship with Crawford, in part, because “there’d been so many articles that have attempted to trace her addiction to being a frustrated lesbian — that she never dated a man before she met Bobby, all of which was totally inaccurate,” he said.
 

Whitney Houston married Bobbi Brown in 1992. Picture: AP Photo.
Whitney Houston married Bobbi Brown in 1992. Picture: AP Photo.


This isn’t the first time the rumour has been addressed since Houston passed away in 2012. Crawford also confirmed she and Houston had a physical relationship in her 2019 memoir A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston.

In the book, Crawford described her first kiss with Houston, writing it was “long and warm like honey.”

“As we eased out of it, our eyes locked, my nerves shot up, and my heart beat furiously,” she wrote.

“Something was happening between us. We never talked labels, like lesbian or gay. We just lived our lives, and I hoped it could go on that way forever,” she said.
 

Stanley Tucci, Naomi Ackie and US record producer Clive Davis at the premiere of I Wanna Dance With Somebody in New York City. Picture: Andrea Renault / AFP.
Stanley Tucci, Naomi Ackie and US record producer Clive Davis at the premiere of I Wanna Dance With Somebody in New York City. Picture: Andrea Renault / AFP.


Crawford and Houston’s physical relationship ended by 1982 when the singer started focusing on her singing career. She later dated Jermaine Jackson, who is also mentioned in the film. She married Brown in 1992.

As for what Houston would’ve thought about the film?

“She and I were pretty in sync on almost every issue. I’m proud and I believe Whitney would be proud too,” Davis, who famously discovered Houston in the early 80s, concluded.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and has been reproduced here with permission

Author: Editors Desk

Source: News Corp Australia Network:

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