In her book, Crawford describes the friend she loved, looked out for, and grew concerned for — for nearly three decades.
Crawford continues: “I asked [Whitney] to tell me what happened, and [she said]: ‘We had a disagreement. I threw a glass, the glass hit the wall, shattered, and that’s how the cut happened. Couples argue all the time and it’s never a big deal. Except when it’s me.'”
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Crawford says she had doubts about Houston’s explanation from the beginning.
“I did not believe her because it was a straight line and it took forever for Roxanna Floyd, who was her makeup artist at that time, to cover it up,” Crawford says. “And that scar stayed with her. So no, I didn’t believe that.”
The story is yet another haunting detail in the life of the singer who died in 2012. (Houstonstruggled with drug use and died at the age of 48.)
Whitney grew isolated during her marriage, Crawford recounts. “I saw and heard him speak to her in ways that were demeaning and talk down to her,” she says. “That [would] not make me feel good if someone was talking to me that way.”
Browndenied that he was violent towards Houston in 2018. However, in his 2016 memoir,Every Little Step, Brownrecounted an incidentwhere he hit Houston. Brown also told Robin Roberts during a20/20interviewpromoting the book that he struck the singer during a time while he was “trying to maintain sobriety.”
Brown said, however, that reports of him being a “woman beater” or overall “violent toward her,” were false.
“I’ve never been a violent man toward a woman ever,” Brown told Roberts.
For the full interview, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now.
Crawford writes that Vejar had traveled with Houston to see Brown, who was then performing with New Edition in Atlanta. Houston knocked on the door to her husband’s suite in the Ritz-Carlton, but he didn’t answer. Only after Houston had purchased a room on the same floor and knocked again did Brown answer, according toA Song For You.
According to Vejar’s account, he told her he “didn’t want” her there and when Whitney asked why he has not opened the door, he spit in her face.
According to the book, Brown threw a glass at Houston, but missed her. Vejar had pushed her out of the way.
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“It was like a big machine and it never stopped,” she says of the constant pressure on the singer.
Despite the tragic end to her life, Crawford hopes people will see a fuller, more nuanced portrait of her friend in her book.
“I believe it is my duty to honor my friend and to clarify the many inaccuracies about myself and about who Whitney was,” she writes. “I feel compelled to remind people of her greatness, to lift her remarkable legacy.”
A Song For Youison salenow.
source: people.com
