But there is little sense of that Houston in this portrait. Lost amid the context of the family drama and the expectations constantly swirling around her, it is hard to make out her own dreams or desires. Perhaps that was also how she felt, adrift in a hall of mirrors. BuzzFeed News talked to director Kevin Macdonald about what a difficult subject Whitney Houston was, her mercurial personal life, and how he unraveled the mystery of her previously unreported sexual abuse. We're going to do that as best friends; we don't want our relationship getting in the way of that.
Though it's certainly true that Cissy did not want Whitney to be gay — she plainly said so to Oprah — Macdonald thinks one of the myths of Whitney's life is that she was a lesbian, and if only she'd been allowed to be with Robyn, she would have lived a happy life. She was being paid a huge amount of money to be her personal assistant, because by the time Whitney was successful, she was getting to decide on her costumes, and help with this and that.
She had a great job, and she was her best friend. He does think, though, that if Crawford had stayed in Houston's life, she might still be alive. Whitney didn't trust her own family. Whitney Houston sold tens of millions of copies, as did her second album in She had seven consecutive No.
So it makes an unfortunate sort of sense that the night Houston was booed at the Soul Train Music Awards, devastating her, she met and began flirting with Bobby Brown — whose blackness and straightness was not in question. And I think the difference in how the crowd reacted to me and how they reacted to her made a difference in our connection.
Brown and Houston's relationship was seen as a stylistic mismatch — but Whitney makes the argument that, given Houston's background, of course she was drawn to him. This idiot? She's really properly happy. Macdonald sees Houston as a willing participant in the family's downfall. He wasn't! She got him hooked on drugs is really more near the truth. Not that Brown would talk about any of these matters when Macdonald interviewed him. In an uncomfortable, illogical filmed conversation, Brown refuses to talk about drugs at all — whether that was because he's defensive about his own role in Houston's deterioration, because he's tired of talking about his more celebrated ex-wife, or some other reason entirely, we'll never know.
What was it like to struggle with Brown? Sometimes you learn more about people from what they don't say to you, and seeing their attitude, than the information they give you.
I think you understand him very well from the way that he behaves. Though Macdonald knew the whole time that he had the backing of the family, the rights to her music which Broomfield did not have , and the extensive family archives, it was still irritating to know there was another documentary out there being made about Houston.
Macdonald deliberately didn't watch the whole thing, though everyone else involved in the production did. But the reason I didn't worry about it is that I thought I don't understand what he's going to do when I have access to all this stuff and he doesn't. How can you make a good film? Good luck to him. But I'm going to ignore it. It is annoying. It's annoying to have a film come out so soon.
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