Whitney Houston's longtime friend recounts a story of young love in the ’80s in her new memoir
Life has a way of continuing after death in the memories of those who loved us. That’s exponentially more true in the lives of our beloved stars who died too soon, whose loved ones write down the biggest memories and secrets in memoirs. Whitney Houston died in 2012, and seven years later, her childhood friendThe book details their relationship, which at first was physical and then not.
Their origin story, as told by Crawford, reads like a romantic drama meets bildungsroman. The two met in 1980, when Houston was nearly 17 and Crawford was 19, at a summer camp in East Orange, New Jersey, where they were both working as counselors. The future superstar invited Crawford over to her house one day. “We talked and talked,” writes Crawford. “And then all of a sudden, we were face to face. The first kiss was long and slow, like honey.
and sparking rumors of a relationship, but they put a moratorium on the physical stuff, according to Crawford.was pursuing her, while she pursued comedianabout Murphy. The first is that Houston “lost herself” chasing Murphy, she says, citing one night when the singer was having him over for dinner in her New Jersey mansion and he never showed. Despite that kind of treatment, Murphy “called to say she was making a mistake” on the day of Houston’s wedding to Brown in 1992.
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