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<br>Robyn Crawford says relationship with Whitney Houston was 'love - open and honest'Robyn Crawford was Whitney Houston's best friend. A childhood confidant who became her assistant and creative partner. They also were, [Freelesbianpassport XXX](https://www.emploitelesurveillance.fr/employer/freelesbianpassport/) briefly, lovers. <br> |
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<br>For years, their romantic movie features been the content of speculation and rumour. Two recent films about Houston's life, Whitney: Can I Be Me and the family-sanctioned Whitney, raked over the coals of their relationship - suggesting Crawford was the real love of her existence.<br> |
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<br>Crawford always declined to comment on her life with Houston - appearing in those films via archive footage, but agreeing to an interview in no way.<br> |
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<br>But now that everyone else has had their say, Crawford provides decided to tell her story. "Why nowadays?" she asks in the introduction to her new memoir, A Song For You.<br> |
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<br>"Believe me, I've done my best to stay out of the spotlight [but] I believe it is my duty to honour my friend and to clarify the many inaccuracies about myself and about who Whitney was".<br> |
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<br>She confirms, for the first time, her romantic history with Houston, which began when they were teenagers and lasted two years.<br> |
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<br>"It wasn't all about our sleeping together," she strains in the reserve. "We could trust each other with our secrets, our feelings, and who we were. We have been friends, we were lovers. We have been everything to each other. We weren't falling in love. We were just. We had each other. We were one: that's how it felt."<br> |
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<br>Houston broke off the relationship just after she signed her record deal, handing Crawford a Bible and telling her she feared public exposure.<br> |
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<br>Crawford remained a devoted friend and emotional bulwark, anchoring Houston to her past, and steadying the ship of her often-turbulent private life.<br> |
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<br>She candidly describes their drug use and how she watched, helplessly, as her friend's habit spiralled out of control.<br> |
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<br>"No matter what rules we came up with around responsible drug use, she kept breaking them and using whenever she wanted to," she writes.<br> |
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<br>By the time Crawford quit Houston's team in 2000, the star was cancelling shows and missing recording sessions. She thought the performer has been getting in physical form abused by her spouse, Bobby Brown, and had found burned spoons in her kitchen.<br> |
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<br>Crawford's own story isn't much happier - she is the daughter of a single mother, who left her husband after years of abuse; and lost two of her closest family members to Aids.<br> |
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<br>But the book isn't overwhelmingly bleak. After escaping Houston's orbit, Crawford rebuilt her lifestyle little by little, and is happily betrothed with two adopted young children today. She has worked as a journalist, meeting with the enjoys of Jessica Kristen and Biel Bell, and is a health and fitness coach currently.<br> |
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<br>Her goal in writing the book was to erase the memory of Houston's tragic death, drowning in a bathtub on the eve of the 2012 Grammy awards, and help remind the worldwide earth she seemed to be "bighearted, unselfish, hilarious" and phenomenally talented - whether she was singing at the Super Bowl, learning to act on the set of The Bodyguard, or celebrating in church (where some parishioners were so overwhelmed by her vocals they would faint). |
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