I didn't like some of the things she said. I didn't feel like it was helping things. But she didn't care at that point. She would say: “They'll say what they want to say.”

There’s no use in speculating about someone’s sexuality from the grave, but Robyn’s story surely feels like the “I fell for a straight girl” narrative, except over several decades as opposed to the usual semester in high school/college. There’s clear animosity for both people’s partners, and I was just sad and uncomfortable for the both of them!! However, while she is all too happy to share about the destructive patterns of everyone else in Whitney’s life, it sometimes feels like she is unrealistically casting herself as the “hero” of this story, and the only one who ever did right by Whitney. A Song for You] is a story of becoming, of starting over and loving again, of healing in immeasurable ways that are both scarring yet beautiful.” Strangely enough, Crawford’s loving yet honest portrayal of her friend cured me of feeling sorry for Houston, which I’ve done for years. It’s telling that the most touching part of Crawford’s story has nothing to do with Houston; instead, it’s the trajectory of her relationship with Lisa, her wife, an editor whose calm, healthy demeanour throws into definition the sheer dysfunction of the world Crawford was leaving. Their romance took off just as Crawford was exiting Houston’s orbit, and Lisa told her she needed to get help. “She encouraged me to go to therapy,” she says and laughs. “‘Either go to therapy, or this ain’t happening’ – that’s what she said. And it was clear I needed to help myself.”Crawford lives in New Jersey with her wife Lisa Hintelmann, with whom she adopted twins. Lena Waithe has cited Crawford as an early inspiration. [4] Filmography [ edit ] Year Crawford writes about meeting 17-year-old Whitney in East Orange when she was 19, a moment that changed the course of their lives forever. From the day they met, they were inseparable. And right from the beginning, Crawford wrote about Whitney as a kind of ethereal light that permeated her own life. Whitney’s love for music was evident even at a young age, her ambition to be a singer a driving force of every decision she made.

Waithe arrives an hour early for this interview; a lifelong, diehard Whitney Houston fan, she devoured A Song For You in three days and is eager to let Crawford know the impact she's had on her. "I don't exist in this world without you being as authentic as you were," Waithe tells her when they first meet. "Because yes, I grew up watching Whitney Houston on TV, but I would always zero in on you. You've got to be special for somebody to look past Whitney Houston and go 'Who's that?'" Emotions are emotions, which is why she just stood there and let me let out my anger by tearing that room up. And then she said: "Okay, now clean it up." McNeil, Liz (November 6, 2019). "Whitney Houston's Best Friend Robyn Crawford Breaks Her Silence on Their Love Affair in New Memoir". People . Retrieved 13 May 2022. If her record company found out, she said, they’d use it against us.’ Photograph: courtesy of Robyn Crawford Yeah. That was cumulative. I had been dealing with a lot of things with him over the years. Him answering her phone and hanging it up. A lot of jealousy. And it wasn’t necessary.Whitney’s name toward the end of her life was always muddled by her drug addiction, her abusive relationship with Bobby Brown and a melee of other controversies. Her devastating demise in 2012 broke the hearts of many who wished to see her rise above her circumstances.