Robyn Crawford, longtime friend, confidant and lover of the late Whitney Houston, has finally broken her silence regarding her relationship with the singer.
To help promote her new memoir A Song For You, Crawford stopped by Jada Pinkett Smith‘s talk show Red Table Talk on Facebook Watch to break her silence. The relationship between Crawford and Houston has long generated speculation and rumor, and Crawford has long resisted sharing intimate details. Until now.
“I felt it was necessary to talk about the Whitney that I know who was thoughtful with her generosity,” Crawford told Pinkett Smith. “It’s my duty to do that.”
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Crawford and Houston originally met as teenagers, while serving as counselors at the same summer camp. According to Crawford, the two immediately fell in love, much to the shock of both. That relationship became intimate “on all levels.”
“There was no shame,” Crawford says.
Their physical relationship lasted two years before Whitney broke things off. She gifted Robyn a Bible, telling her that if they maintained their physical intimacy, they could go to Hell. Whitney also worried that if people knew of their love, it could hurt her career.
Crawford thinks that Whitney’s mom, Cissy Houston, was the cause of the break-up. Cissy called the relationship between Robyn & Whitney unnatural.
“Mrs. Houston knows I loved Whitney and Whitney loved me,” Crawford opines. “But I always sensed a bitterness in her mom. Her daughter was so awesome. There was so much to be joyful about. If anything, Whitney would listen to me. That would bother Mrs. Houston.”
Even after the break-up, Robyn & Whitney maintained an emotional relationship with one another, sending each other love letters for years. That love persisted even after Whitney married singer Bobby Brown. Robyn and Bobby immediately ran afoul with one another, at times even getting into physical fights. Crawford also claims Brown physically abused Houston.
Crawford goes on to discuss the explosive marriage between Bobby & Whitney, Houston’s issues with addiction and Crawford’s own ultimate choice to disconnect from Whitney. She also recalls learning of the singer’s death, as well as that of her daughter with Bobby Brown, Bobbi Kristina. It’s a powerful, raw conversation and a moving memorial to a fallen icon.
It streams exclusively on Facebook Watch.
bonbon
Gotta love out how she finally breaks her silence only so that she can cash in.
thisisnotreal
Yeah I feel guilty being that person but this just drips “i want my 15 mins” to me. I’ll be expecting the book deal and the tv special to follow soon.
Brian
If she was just trying to cash in, she would have done a highly paid interview a month after Whitney died, not wait a more then respectable 8 years to tell her story. Robyn was probably the only person in Whitney’s life who genuinely did have her back, until she was forced out of her life. I don’t fault her a bit for deciding to set the record straight once and for all.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
For her to have waited for seven years before writing this book makes me think she didn’t do it for the money, she did it for the very reason she said she did; get the truth out about her and Whitney. I had heard rumors years ago her and Bobby got into a violent fistfight in a high end restaurant and she came out the winner. Robyn does not come off as the type who backed down and I’ll bet Bobby found out the hard way. I will read this (as I do all other must read books) when it comes to the public library and in this case I’m sure it won’t be a long wait. This book sounds like a must read and just might be made into a movie. No one thought the made for tv movie New Edition would do as well as it did, and it was good.
thisisnotreal
Yes she waited many years, but I still find myself asking what does she hope to gain by coming forth about this? Whitney is gone and has been for many years now, what does she hope to gain by sharing about her relationship with a long deceased woman? I don’t see why her relationship with Whitney is even something that she feels the need to discuss or share in the first place? Whitney is gone and their relationship ended years ago so what is even the point in discussing it at this point? It was a relationship, it happened, it ended, and time has passed since then so why not just let those memories stay memories and keep them for herself?
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
It gets hard to believe how naive many of you are. Clearly you didn’t get the memo but within the last five years no less than three documentaries/docudramas have been made about Whitney and in every one Robin’s name is mentioned and there is also a character resembling her in the documentary as well. Whether we like her or not she WAS a huge part of Whitneys life. When Barbara Walters interviewed Whitney Houston during the days it was clear she was flipping out on drugs (immediately after she appeared on a tribute to Michael Jackson looking toothpick thin and stoned out of her mind) she gave a big shout out of “I love you Robin” during the interview. Robin was asked to contribute to that interview and she refused. The world longs for proof and Robin is telling what any fool should have known. Whats wrong with profiting from it if its worth something and it isn’t done in slander. It happened and she has no reason to lie. Don’t think for one minute Bobby Brown hasn’t read that book from cover to cover looking for something to sue her about. And dont forget that she lives in California where the cost of living is sky high and that she, Robyn, looks completely talentless. She’s older now and realizes she aint going to make it out there on social security. Yes, if its true and if it can make her money I say go for it.
richard 14
Selling a book, eh, Crawford?
Brian
Nothing gets by you, does it?
Kangol2
I’m glad she’s telling her side of the story involving her relationship, romantic, platonic and otherwise, with Whitney Houston. I wish they could have had support to live out their lives together, but it was not to be. Whitney also probably would never have become the star she was, but she probably also would still be alive.
kamirX
It is NEVER is good taste to “kiss and tell”, male or female, gay or straight.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
It is when things such as property taxes, car/health insurance and no pension are on the table.
DuMaurier
I get why people have a problem with this kind of thing; my feelings are usually mixed about posthumous tell-alls by someone who gets to give her side of the story without input from the deceased. But this is a person who ‘had’ to be kept in the shadows as if she were some kind of nasty secret, and I don’t see anything wrong with her telling HER story–which of course has to include Whitney. Which doesn’t mean I don’t see the problematic aspects of it.
Cam
Rather than attacking her for coming forward, how about a comment on the bigotry in the industry and her own family against LGBT people that wrecked Houston’s life.
acna64
The big question. What does she want? Whitney can’t talk any more so it will be hard to prove