Clive Davis and the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody affirm longstanding rumours concerning 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 stated in a brand new interview with Extra that aired Thursday, as reported by Page Six.
Davis is a producer on the biopic starring British actress Naomi Ackie as Houston, and Stanley Tucci because the legendary music exec.
The movie, which premieres Friday, chronicles Houston’s chart-topping success, and the highs and lows of her private life, together with motherhood, her drug dependancy and tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown.
Davis advised Extra the movie highlighted her relationship with Crawford, partly, as a result of “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 stated.
This isn’t the primary time the hearsay has been addressed since Houston handed away in 2012. Crawford additionally confirmed she and Houston had a bodily relationship in her 2019 memoir A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston.
In the guide, 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 stated.
Crawford and Houston’s bodily relationship ended by 1982 when the singer began specializing in her singing profession. She later dated Jermaine Jackson, who can also be talked about within the movie. She married Brown in 1992.
As for what Houston would’ve thought concerning the movie?
“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 found Houston within the early 80s, concluded.
This article initially appeared on the New York Post and has been reproduced right here with permission
