Whitney Houston: abysses and rumors of her life

Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012 at the age of 48. This year marks the tenth anniversary of her tragic death. New facts about her life keep coming to light that fans didn’t know until her death. But there are also numerous controversies and rumors surrounding the singer and actress…

Whitney Houston is said to have been bisexual

A longtime friend of Whitney Houston, Robyn Crawford (61), opened up about her love affair with the singer in 2019. In her autobiography, A Song for You: My Life With Whitney Houston, Crawford claims that she and Houston weren’t just platonic friends. She also explained on the TV show Dateline: “Our friendship was a deep friendship. It was physical.”

Author Gerrick Kennedy also dealt with the romance of Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford in his book “In Defense of Whitney Houston”, which was published in early February 2022. He gives an assessment of why Houston didn’t go public with the relationship at the time: This decision was “an act of survival”. “The tolerance shown towards queer artists was still very low as pop music was ruled by homophobic gatekeepers.” So, in his opinion, Whitney Houston had no choice but to keep quiet about her sexuality in order to succeed.

her mysterious death

Whitney Houston’s death is still a mystery to this day. The official version is that the singer was found face down lifeless in the bathtub of her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills just hours before the Grammy Awards ceremony. Cause of death: drowning. However, her drug use and heart disease are said to have contributed to her death. Rumors persist to this day that her death could have been a murder. However, there is no solid evidence of this.

Her daughter’s death remains just as mysterious to this day

“Bobbi Kristina confided in us that she felt like she was rushing through life, as if she feared ending up like her mother. I will never forget her disturbing words. Unfortunately, her premonition came true.” A friend of Bobbi Kristina Brown (1993-2015), Whitney Houston’s daughter, wrote these sad sentences shortly after the 22-year-old’s funeral. In fact, Bobbi Kristina’s death bears some parallels to her mother’s, which still shocks many to this day.

Because she was also found unconscious in a bathtub – about three years after Houston’s death. The 22-year-old was taken to a hospital, and in June 2015 she was finally transferred to a hospice. She died there at the end of July. The cause of death: brain damage and a pulmonary embolism after alcohol, drug and medication abuse. Her ex-boyfriend Nick Gordon (1990-2020) was convicted by a court at the end of 2016 – he is said to have given her the deadly cocktail. Gordon himself died in January 2020 after a heroin overdose.

Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s toxic relationship

Jealousy, resentment, aggression and dependency: Bobby Brown (53) and Whitney Houston’s marriage in 1992 was the definition of a toxic relationship. Because he felt threatened by his successful wife, she tried to make herself smaller than she was. “If he said something, I would listen to him,” Houston explained in 2009 in an interview with Oprah Winfrey (68). “He was my drug, I didn’t do anything without him.”

Houston fell deep into drug addiction with him – this public fall lasted 14 years until she finally managed to break away from Brown and the drugs. However, the latter was only partially successful, as her eventual death suggests. Only the two themselves know what the relationship between the two actually looked like.

To this day, Bobby Brown has repeatedly made different statements about this. In a 2016 interview with the US broadcaster ABC, for example, he admitted to having beaten Houston once. In 2018 he denied this and called the statement “completely false”. “There were no violent incidents between me and Whitney,” the singer said at a press conference.

Abuse in Whitney Houston’s childhood

Another abyss in Whitney Houston’s life: she is said to have been abused as a child. The 2018 documentary “Whitney” reported that Dee Dee Warwick (1942-2008) allegedly assaulted the singer. She is the younger sister of Dionne Warwick (81) and Houston’s cousin. Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (54) explained that he already suspected that Houston might have been abused before one of her brothers spoke to him about it.

Gary Houston (64) said that he too had been abused by a woman from the family environment. Other family members and Houston’s assistant would also have known. Two weeks before the end of filming, Macdonald only found out that the attacks had allegedly come from Warwick.

“We ended up having three different people confirming it,” Macdonald explained of the decision to publicize the allegations. At first he didn’t expect to make a film about an entertainer “that would take us to such a dark place. But once we got there, I felt that we had a duty [das Material] to publish.”

Hype about Whitney Houston is unbroken

That Whitney Houston was a successful and extremely talented singer is undisputed to this day. Her songs like “I Will Always Love You”, “One Moment In Time” and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” are unforgettable. The music icon is still being marketed all over the world. In Las Vegas, for example, the show “An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert” has been around since October 2021. Whitney Houston regularly appears as a hologram and sings her greatest hits. Houston’s performance is accompanied by her distinctive voice and supported by a band, background singers and dancers.