She was there for Houston's "Star-Spangled Banner" at the 1991 Super Bowl, perhaps the all-time most acclaimed performance of our national anthem — and it was Crawford who suggested that Houston take the field in a white track suit. The book is named after a Temptations song the two friends used to listen to at the first apartment they shared. After Houston married Bobby Brown, she told him about her past with Crawford and his jealous rage exacerbated the growing rift that resulted in Crawford leaving Nippy Inc. At some points, especially in the later years, it feels like she was grasping at straws (mainly, secondhand stories from Silvia) to continue to tell Whitney’s life story in the years when they had drifted apart. Unfortunately it was secrets and the feelings of abandonment and loneliness that failed this Fallen Angel.

However, the portrayal of Whitney Houston was not negative as in the most recent documentaries and biographies. But when Houston started dating Jermaine Jackson in the mid-1980s, then Eddie Murphy, and rap star Bobby Brown, whom she married, Crawford admits it was tremendously difficult. 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. The vital, honest, and previously untold story that provides an understanding of the complex life of Whitney Houston. Deeply personal and heartfelt, A Song for You is the vital, honest, and previously untold story that provides an understanding of the complex life of Whitney Houston.

It reads as a tremendous betrayal, all the more so because, in the book, Crawford recounts how at the time she defended Houston’s behaviour to her wife. Robyn did Whitney justice in this book by highlighting the immense highs and the deep lows of being in the shadow of Whitney Houston.

Part of Crawford’s purpose in writing the book – apart from to deliver a cautionary tale to her kids about drugs, and to arm them against all the gossip – was to redeem and celebrate something of the original energy between the two women, when “we were young, and fearless, and free”. For years, Houston was actively homophobic, publicly comparing homosexuality to bestiality, then privately blasting Crawford for not denying the rumours about their relationship strenuously enough – behaviour Crawford disliked, but went along with. The coroner ruled her death to be accidental drowning, brought on in part by cocaine and heart disease.Loved her inclusion of different moments of musical history and song-based lessons she was a part of thanks to Whitney. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.