Naomi Ackie Wonders If Whitney Houston Was Pansexual After Playing Her: She Was ‘Very Free’

Naomi Ackie speculated connected the anticipation that the precocious vocalist Whitney Houston, who she’s playing in I Wanna Dance With Somebody, may person been pansexual successful a caller interrogation with The Sunday Times, published connected Sunday, December 18. The Times’ Laura Pullman explained that the actress, 30, wondered if Whitney, who died astatine 48 successful 2012, was pansexual portion reflecting connected her relation successful the upcoming biopic.

Naomi spoke astir however the movie portrays romance that was rumored to person taken spot betwixt Whitney and her adjunct Robyn Crawford.  The histrion explained however she related to the “I Will Always Love You” singer. “There’s thing astir her that was precise escaped successful that and rather modern, fixed the clip she was in,” Naomi told the outlet. “That’s thing I feel. I don’t cognize who I’ll extremity up with.”

Naomi Ackie stars arsenic Whitney Houston successful the caller biopic. (Shutterstock)

Naomi continued to explicate that playing Whitney during the rumored narration was 1 of the aspects that she felt she had a amended grip on. “I deliberation that [part of Houston’s life] was really astir apt easier for maine to recognize than immoderate of the different things that she was going done because, you know, emotion is love,” she said.

Robyn claimed that she and Whitney had a narration successful her 2019 memoir A Song For You: My Life With Whitney Houston. She said that they “never talked astir labels,” but spoke astir however overmuch she loved the singer. “Whitney knows I loved her and I cognize she loved me. We truly meant everything to each other. We vowed to basal by each other,” she wrote successful the book.

The author said that Whitney called disconnected their relationship, but they stayed adjacent friends. “She said, ‘I don’t judge that we should beryllium carnal immoderate longer’, that ‘It would marque our travel overmuch harder if they recovered retired astir it,'” Robyn said during an interrogation connected Red Table Talk.

Besides the alleged narration with Robyn, Whitney was joined to Bobby Brown, 53, from 1992 until 2007. During their clip together, they had a daughter Bobbie Kristina Brown, who died from lobar pneumonia successful 2015 astatine 22.

I Wanna Dance With Somebody will premiere successful movie theaters connected December 23.

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