Kevin Costner was determined to give Whitney Houston a proper sendoff after her death ... and nothing was going to get in his way, not even a major TV network.
a proper sendoff after her death ... and nothing was going to get in his way, not even a major TV network.Costner, who was one of 8 people to speak at the singer's funeral, was asked ahead of the ceremony to shorten his speech ... so CNN and other networks could air commercials during the broadcast.
Kevin said the convo went like this ..."Somebody said, ‘CNN’s here, they wouldn’t mind if your remarks were kept shorter because they’re going to have commercials.’ And I said, 'They can get over that. They can play the commercial while I’m talking, I don’t care.'"Ya gotta love his commitment ... he said he'd carefully crafted his 17-minute speech -- something he was hesitant to undertake, but did so whenKC continued ...
Whitney was 48 when she died in February 2012 after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton.
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