A love letter to her best friend after remaining silent for decades, Robyn gives readers everything you want to know, including the answer to the rumors that circled them for years. Crawford describes the dynamic that LGBT kids have experienced from the beginning of time: the two could be open about being inseparable best friends, but had to hide the physical side of their relationship. I felt very sad while reading this book because I just wish things could have turned out differently for Whitney. It’s an extraordinary response to an alleged threat of physical violence: that no one was thinking of Houston.

If "they" had let Whitney be open about her relationship with Robyn, then maybe a huge message would have got through and gone some way to stamping out homophobia.An intimate look into life of Whitney Houston through the eyes of her best friend and loyal assistant of 20 years. They were on drugs from being teenagers - so the reason why a woman so gifted as Whitney would fall so deeply into drugs has its roots right there.

The saddest part about all of this; Whitney was in love with Robyn, I truly believe that, but because of being raised in the church and Whitney's religious beliefs, a relationship with a woman was not permitted during her time. Both Houston and Crawford faced questions about their relationship that continued through Houston's life and, for Crawford, have never ended. The takeaway here is that Bobby Brown was the worst beard any queer person has ever masqueraded with. Through it all, what’s clear is that Robyn loved Whitney (and vice versa), and she probably gave up too much of her life for Whitney, and she finally had to let go and find a healthy life of her own.Unfortunately we will never hear Whitney’s, but I assure you, there would be nothing for her to “defend. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. From the time she left college until she was 40, Robyn Crawford had one job, working for one company: Nippy Inc. More acutely, it is the story of two women who, for the entirety of Houston’s life, concealed the sexual origins of that relationship, amid intense and often prurient speculation.

Behind closed doors, Houston often said that she couldn't be herself, as she made plans to go through with her marriage to Brown. It's hard to review and rate memoirs, because of their personal, unique nature, but this was one of the most moving memoirs I have ever read. We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts.I remember how excited I was the Christmas I got a pink, dual cassette boombox with a microphone and the Whitney album on cassette tape.

I came in thinking it was a biography of Whitney Houston, but it was actually Robyn Crawford’s biography that included her memories of her time with Whitney.Had this been today, Whitney would be alive and no doubt living her life with Robyn as there are a lot of entertainers today who are openly gay/bisexual and no-one bats an eyelid. And since Robyn met Whitney in her teens, and was with her for 20 years, it is understandable that Whitney would be a part of her story. In some ways, I really wish that Eddie Murphy had acted better because I believe they would have been a solid match but colliding stars don’t create anything beautiful when you think about it spatially (so perhaps not). Clearly Whitney wanted, no, needed that career but having to give up her love was part of the reason the drug taking became an addiction too strong for her to fight.