A new film is claiming that the late Whitney Houston had a "bisexual" relationship with her best friend, Robyn Crawford.
People noted that the claim comes courtesy of the documentary, titled Whitney: Can I Be Me, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, April 26. The film is revisiting the subject about whether Houston and Crawford were more than friends, which is something the public speculated for years.
While Crawford does not appear to be involved at all in the project the film offers interviews with some the pair's family and closest friends supporting the possibility of their realtionship being romantic.
“I don’t think she was gay, I think she was bisexual,” Houston’s longtime friend and stylist Ellin Lavar said in an interview before adding, “Robyn provided a safe place for her … in that Whitney found safety and solace.”
The romantic realtionship was rumored to have went on for years even during the time that Houston was married to Bobby Brown.
“Robyn and Whitney were like twins,” security personnel Kevin Ammons said in the film. “They were inseparable. They had a bond and Bobby Brown could never remove Robyn. He wanted to be the man in the relationship.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, neither Brown or Houston's mother, Cissy, would take part in Whitney: Can I Be Me and at one point tired to have production shut down. However, her brothers and Brown's sister, Tina, are involved in the film.
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The only time Cissy ever spoke about her daughter's relationship with Crawford was in her 2013 memoir titled. Remembering Whitney. In it Cissy wrote, “I just didn’t want her with my daughter. I know nothing about a romantic relationship. That’s what everybody said but they didn’t know either.”
Houston died in February 2012 after being found unresponsive in the bathtub of her hotel room in Beverly Hills, California.