Here's a Look at Whitney Houston's Relationship History

Whitney Houston's bumpy relationship with singer Bobby Brown is well-documented. But who did she date ahead of him? Here's a look at her relationship history.

With the discharge of the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the world is revisiting their pastime in the regularly wild lifetime of the overdue songstress. She rose to reputation as an unheard of singer and parlayed that into a a success acting career. There used to be just no preventing Whitney Houston till, unfortunately, Whitney stopped herself.

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As some distance as her private existence goes, maximum have been acquainted with her cantankerous relationship with singer Bobby Brown. The two loved and fought publicly, sharing a passion for appearing, a love for his or her daughter, and unfortunately an interest in substance abuse.

Before Whitney and Bobby met, she was once related to a few attention-grabbing people. Let's take a look at Whitney Houston's relationship history.

Robyn Crawford

Whitney's easiest friend-turned-assistant used to be Robyn Crawford, who claimed in her 2019 memoir, A Song for You: My Life With Whitney Houston, that the 2 were greater than buddies.

"We were lovers. We were everything to each other. We weren’t falling in love. We just were. We had each other. We were one: That’s how it felt," she wrote. "We never talked labels, like lesbian or gay. We just lived our lives, and I hoped it could go on that way forever."

The two parted tactics in 2000, eight years after she married Bobby Brown.

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Jermaine Jackson

It was rumored that Whitney dated Jermaine Jackson (brother to Michael Jackson and previous member of The Jackson Five) in the mid-Eighties whilst Jermaine was nonetheless married. Although Jermaine hasn't ever overtly admitted to dating Whitney, his sister LaToya showed it while showing on The Talk in March 2012. "He has admitted that they had an affair," she instructed the panel, by way of Today.

Eddie Murphy

Although neither Whitney nor Eddie Murphy fessed as much as in fact relationship, maintaining they were just pals, Robyn Crawford as soon as once more mentioned otherwise in her memoir. In reality, she shared a reasonably sassy tale about a time Whitney showed as much as Eddie's house unannounced, dressed in not anything however underwear and a fur coat while sporting a cake. Evidently Eddie rebuffed her advances. Robyn also alleged that Whitney was dating Eddie and Bobby at the same time. Could this incident have tipped the scales in Bobby's favor?

Randall Cunningham

In a May 1991 interview with Ebony Magazine, then 26-year-old Whitney Houston talked about her relationship with Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham. She referred to as him a "tall, fine, good-looking man," however went into better element about his personality.

"Randall is a warm, very caring, very giving and loving young man," she shared. "He's a great talented athlete. I have a lot of respect for him, because it's very hard to get out there and bang heads, and get banged. He's somebody I can talk to. Randall's a Christian. He's a good person."

The couple dated for two years, from 1985 to 1987.

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