Eddie Murphy tried to stop Whitney Houston from marrying R&B artist Bobby Brown, the late singer’s best friend has claimed.
In his next book A Song for You: My Life with Whitney HoustonRobyn Crawford stated that the I will always love you was always “interested” in Beverly Hills Police star, but because he was so “elusive”, she decided to enter into a relationship with Brown.
In an excerpt published by Peoplegoes on to recall how Murphy was supposed to visit Houston’s mansion in New Jersey one night in the late 1980s and The bodyguard The actress did everything she could to impress the comedian.
“One day when Eddie was supposed to come over for dinner, I caught a glimpse of Whitney. She was wearing a black dress and low-heeled shoes,” wrote Crawford, who has also written about her intimate relationship with the star. For a moment I thought, ‘Wow, I wish she was doing that for me.'”
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But Houston, who died in 2012, was devastated when Murphy “never showed up.” So it came as a shock to her – and everyone close to her – when he called her on the morning of her wedding to Brown in July 1992 to tell her that he “was making a mistake.”
Despite Murphy’s protests, Houston married Brown. The couple was together for 15 years, in what became a notoriously tumultuous marriage, before divorcing in 2007. They had one child together, a daughter named Bobbi Kristina Brown, who died three years after her mother in 2015.
Elsewhere in the memoir, Crawford seemed to confirm that she and Houston were in a “physical” relationship, something that has long been rumored since the couple met at summer camp 39 years ago.
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“He said if people found out about us, they would use this against us and in the ’80s that’s how he felt,” he recalled. “I kept him safe. “I found comfort in my silence.”
