Aside from her marriage to Bobby Brown, the one relationship synonymous with Whitney Houston is the one shared between the icon and her longtime friend and employee, Robyn Crawford. For decades, the public analyzed whether or not Houston and Crawford’s relationship was more than platonic. Houston always denied it, but a few years ago, Crawford said otherwise. Now, a new Netflix film Beauty is reportedly based on their hidden love affair. To get more news about Asian va Korea va Europe and America va, you can visit our official website.

Beauty focuses on a young African-American singer whose talent is viewed as too much high earning potential for her to live out loud as a lesbian woman. Beauty is played by Gracie Marie Bradley. Those around her who are part of her career see her as a meal ticket and the next big thing, while her personal life with a close friend and confidant suffers as a result, and she too is semi-destructive.

In the movie, there are also several similarities between the character of Beauty and Houston. Houston was criticized early in her career for being too pop and accused of shunning her urban roots. In the movie, Beauty says: “I don’t know how to sing Black or white, I just know how to sing.” Houston said at one point the same thing, instead, she explained that her roots were gospel music. Beauty’s character also has a similar hairstyle to Houston as she did in her early days, and fashions that resemble what the singer wore. Her mother’s character is also heavily involved in her career, as Houston’s mother Cissy was.

Regarding the similar relationship to Crawford, the two women in the film are close friends, and roommates at one point. Houston and Crawford’s first apartment was a shared one. The film initially premiered during the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. Lena Waithe, who is one-half of the screenwriting team and an open member of the LGBTQ+ community, is critically acclaimed for other projects such as Queen & Slim but received mixed reactions for Beauty.

Whether or not the film is truly based on Houston will have to be confirmed by The Chi creator, but she’s made it known she is one of Houston’s biggest fans. Therefore, the idea is not far-fetched.

Waithe has been a fan of Houston’s since the moment she heard her singing “The Greatest Love of All” as she explained in an essay for InStyle Magazine. She attended her first Houston concert in her hometown of Chicago in 1999 while Houston was on her My Love Is Your Love Tour. While Waithe was bummed to learn she had nosebleed seats, she described the experience as an outer body one. But she jokes, with some truth, that her biggest regret from that night is not buying a concert t-shirt. Since then, she’s made it a point to collect vintage T-Shirts with Houston’s photo.

“I have about six that I wear regularly around the house and to work, usually with gray sweatpants, sneakers, and a snapback,” she writes. “My wife, Alana [Mayo], likes to tease me and say that I have a Whitney shirt for every day of the week. And I’m like, “Yeah, I do.” And I’m totally fine with wearing the same ones again and again.”