Whitney Houston friend Robyn Crawford opens up about their romance, saying she kept her relationship with Houston 'safe' and 'found comfort in my silence.'
As Houston's career took off, she had concerns that people would use her relationship with Crawford against them, reads an excerpt of the book to be released Nov. 16.
“She said we shouldn’t be physical anymore because it would make our journey even more difficult," Crawford writes in her book. “She said if people find out about us, they would use this against us, and back in the ’80s that’s how it felt.” “We never talked about labels, like lesbian or gay,” she writes. “We just lived our lives and I hoped it could go on that way forever.”January 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey
"Would it have bothered you if your daughter, Whitney, was gay?" Oprah asked."Absolutely," Cissy Houston responded, telling Winfrey that she would not have condoned it.
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