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Naomi Ackie speculated on the likelihood that the late singer Whitney Houston, who she’s enjoying in I Wanna Dance With Any individual, might have been pansexual in a brand new interview with The Sunday Occasions, revealed on Sunday, December 18. The Occasions’ Laura Pullman defined that the actress, 30, questioned if Whitney, who died at 48 in 2012, was pansexual whereas reflecting on her position within the upcoming biopic.
Naomi spoke about how the movie portrays romance that was rumored to have taken place between Whitney and her assistant Robyn Crawford. The actress defined how she associated to the “I Will All the time Love You” singer. “There’s one thing about her that was very free in that and fairly trendy, given the time she was in,” Naomi instructed the outlet. “That’s one thing I really feel. I don’t know who I’ll find yourself with.”
Naomi continued to clarify that enjoying Whitney throughout the rumored relationship was one of many points that she felt she had a greater deal with on. “I believe that [part of Houston’s life] was truly most likely simpler for me to grasp than a few of the different issues that she was going by way of as a result of, , love is love,” she mentioned.
Robyn claimed that she and Whitney had a relationship in her 2019 memoir A Tune For You: My Life With Whitney Houston. She mentioned that they “by no means talked about labels,” however spoke about how a lot she cherished the singer. “Whitney is aware of I cherished her and I do know she cherished me. We actually meant the whole lot to one another. We vowed to face by one another,” she wrote within the e-book.
The writer mentioned that Whitney known as off their relationship, however they stayed shut mates. “She mentioned, ‘I don’t imagine that we ought to be bodily any longer’, that ‘It could make our journey a lot tougher in the event that they discovered about it,’” Robyn mentioned throughout an interview on Crimson Desk Discuss.
In addition to the alleged relationship with Robyn, Whitney was married to Bobby Brown, 53, from 1992 till 2007. Throughout their time collectively, they’d a daughter Bobbie Kristina Brown, who died from lobar pneumonia in 2015 at 22.
I Wanna Dance With Any individual will premiere in film theaters on December 23.
