Whitney Houston ‘had relationships with women,’ says Bobby Brown

BOBBY Brown has confirmed years of rumours about her bisexuality, saying her pain at not living openly contributed to her death.

Whitney’s relationship with her best friend Robyn had for years been rumoured to be romantic. Picture: AFP/Joerg Koch

AFTER years of rumours concerning same-sex affairs, Bobby Brown has confirmed that his late ex-wife Whitney Houston was in a relationship with her female best friend, Robyn Crawford.

Brown makes the claim in his memoir, Every Little Step, which includes explicit stories of sex, drugs and violence involving him and his late ex-wife.

In an interview withUs Magazineto promote the book, Brown confirms the long-rumoured talk that Houston had been involved with her best friend Crawford.

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“I know,” he told the magazine when asked about Whitney’s relationship with Robyn. “We were married for 14 years. There are some things we talked about that were personal to us.”

Houston’s mother said after her death that she was never quite sure how far her daughter’s friendship with Robyn Crawford went. Picture: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images/AFP

Asked whether Houston was in fact gay, Brown said that “I’m a man and she was attracted to me!”

Houston met her best friend when the pair were teenagers in New Jersey. Rumours that there was more than a friendship between them followed Whitney throughout her career and only grew stronger following her death. In 2013, Oprah Winfrey asked Houston’s mother Cissy if she thought the pair had been in a relationship.

“I don’t really know. I didn’t particularly like her. She spoke disrespectful sometimes. She turned out to be alright, I guess — that was her friend.”

Houston filed for divorce from Bobby Brown in 2007. Picture: John Salangsang/Invision/AP

Cissy said she suspected her daughter was “experimenting” with Crawford, and told Oprah it would’ve “absolutely” bothered her had Whitney come out as gay.

“I really feel that if Robyn was accepted into Whitney’s life, Whitney would still be alive today,” Brown says now.

“She didn’t have close friends with her anymore.”

Crawford herself has always refused to confirm the talk of the pair’s relationship, even following Houston’s 2012 death by accidental drowning in a hotel bath tub.

“I have never spoken about her until now. And she knew I wouldn’t. She was a loyal friend, and she knew I was never going to be disloyal to her. I was never going to betray her,” she wrote in Esquire following Houston’s death.

“Now I can’t believe that I’m never going to hug her or hear her laughter again. I loved her laughter, and that’s what I miss most, that’s what I miss already.”

Houston’s only child, Bobbi Kristina, died in remarkably similar circumstances to her mother last year. Picture: Jason Merritt/Getty Images