Clive Davis became the talk of the town earlier this month when he revealed in his new memoir, The Soundtrack to My Life, that he is bisexual. Now, Davis is opening up about the life of his late friend and protégée, Whitney Houston, and responding to rumors that she was a lesbian.
In a new interview with TheGrio, Davis discussed Houston’s alleged lesbian affair with her former assistant, Robyn Crawford, and claimed that he only knew of her romantic involvement with men.
“I really saw her in brief relationships with men. I do write that she did have an interim relationship with Jermaine Jackson when he was separated,” Davis said. “I know that she went out with Eddie Murphy for a while until she married Bobby Brown. I only knew of Robyn as her assistant, someone she grew up with, since she was a teenager. I just knew the heterosexual side of Whitney.”
Houston’s mother, Cissy, wrote about her daughter’s lesbian rumors in her new memoir, Remembering Whitney, saying that she wasn’t sure either whether her daughter was gay or bisexual. And in a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, Cissy claimed she would’ve have disapproved if Houston had told her she was gay or dating Crawford.
“Would it have bothered you if your daughter was gay?” asked Winfrey.
“Absolutely,” Cissy replied.
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