A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

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She wanted women, namely Robyn, and because she couldn’t have what she wanted, thus began a downward spiral of self-denial, self-loathing, and self-destruction.

After Jermaine Jackson, Houston was largely single until she married Bobby Brown, although famous men often asked her out. For Houston, that meant coming of age in the church, as the daughter of pop gospel great Cissy Houston. Behind closed doors, Houston often said that she couldn't be herself, as she made plans to go through with her marriage to Brown. My take away from this book was deep down whitney didn't feel worthy of better relationships and sobriety. In the end, Robyn’s biases against all of Whitney’s potential partners and her impossible longing for the “old Whitney” made it hard for me to respect much of this book.

Care-taking came naturally; she’d grown up in a family where her father had violently abused her mother and where, from a young age, Crawford had taken on the role of protector. Like so many, the news of her death was a shock to me, and I watched the televised funeral and several documentaries on her. Robyn and Whitney were initially lovers but could not maintain that relationship due to how it would appear to Whitney’s fans as well as Whitney’s strict, conservative, religious family.

Long after the two were married and had children, however, Crawford was still in danger of being sucked back in. Robyn’s attraction to women was real and powerful, and Whitney knew this because she felt it herself. Robyn received criticism for writing this book after Whitney died and she said her reasoning behind it was to put some of the headlines at rest about Whitney. An intimate look into life of Whitney Houston through the eyes of her best friend and loyal assistant of 20 years. You can tell she really loved her friend and had her best interest at heart even in writing the book.Since Whitney’s death in 2012, Robyn has stayed out of the limelight and held the great joys, wild adventures, and hard truths of her life with Whitney close to her heart.

Deeply personal, heartfelt, and ready to set the record straight, Robyn Crawford's memoir is a vital story and a previously untold part of Whitney's life, from a women who knew her better than nearly anyone else. Crawford describes the dynamic that LGBT kids have experienced from the beginning of time: the two could be open about being inseparable best friends, but had to hide the physical side of their relationship. My parents were huge fans of hers, and my mom especially loved The Bodyguard and The Preacher's Wife. They were on drugs from being teenagers - so the reason why a woman so gifted as Whitney would fall so deeply into drugs has its roots right there. Whitney, the fascinating 2018 documentary that unpacked much of the complexity behind Houston's pristine (until it wasn't) image, made clear that Crawford was a crucial person in the star's life, but Crawford declined to be interviewed for that film and thus remained an enigma.And since Robyn met Whitney in her teens, and was with her for 20 years, it is understandable that Whitney would be a part of her story. Robyn talks about Whitney in a loving way, but also discuss both of their struggles with drug use and Whitney’s self-esteem issues (which we already knew). If you read that book, you can figure how things were really going that time, Robyn went through a lot, and she is sharing a part of her life with It. 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.