Whitney Houston: This romantic relationship with a woman that she hid for a long time

Whitney Houston kepté the secret about a whole part of his private life. A book reveals one of its love stories passed over in silence.

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IN BRIEF

• Pop and R&B icon Whitney Houston has had a career marked by hits and awards, but her private life was tumultuous, including her marriage to Bobby Brown.
• Whitney Houston has seen eacute;cu a romantic relationship secret with Robyn Crawford, his assistant, in the 80s, before ending this romance to protect his career.
• Discover how social pressure and career choices influenced Whitney Houston's personal life in this captivating article.

Her songs have made pop and R&B music history. Her voice has thrilled millions of fans around the world. Her career has been rewarded with countless awards. However, not everything was rosy in Whitney Houston's private life. From her marriage to Bobby Brown, we remember less the best than the worst.

In 2016, the ex-partner of life, accused of domestic violence 13 years before, described in the show 20/20 a daily life complicated by the taking of various drugs and the consumption of alcohol. “The last few years of our marriage were terrible. We were both trying to quit or one of us was trying. It was terrible”, he admitted at the time. The general public was unaware at the time that the singer had had a passionate love affair with another person several years before.

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No one would have suspected Whitney Houston of having a love affair with a woman. Officially presented as his assistant and artistic director, Robyn Crawford was indeed more than a best friend for the singer of the hit I Will Always Love You. The romance between the two women “insparable” began shortly after their meeting in the mid-80s in New Jersey.

“We were friends. We were lovers. We were each other's everything,”, Robyn Crawford recounts in the book A song for you: my life with Whitney Houston, published in 2019. The Bodyguard star nevertheless wanted to end & their romance after being recruited by a major record company.

Whitney Houston: why her secret relationship ended

“She came to my house after signing her contract, a Bible in her hand, to explain to me that we shouldn't have physical relations anymore because it would make our journey on Earth even more complex and that, if it got out, it would turn against us”, explains Whitney Houston's ex-lover in her book of memories.

The singer also reportedly feared public opinion: “She said that if people learned about our story, they would use it against us.” Both ended up marrying men and leading lives as mothers. Exhausted by arguments with Bobby Brown, Robyn Crawford would later resign from her position as artistic director of the woman who privately went by the nickname “Nippy”.