Image Courtesy of Lifetime NetworksLifetime is scheduled to premiere its upcoming biopic of the late Whitney Houston next month, but new details continue to surface online. While the made-for-TV film, simply titled Whitney, will focus on Houston’s whirlwind relationship with Bobby Brown, the biopic will touch on the nature of her relationship with a former assistant, who was rumored to be her gay lover.
Actress Yolonda Ross has been cast to portray Robyn Jones, the woman who was a close friend to the late singer. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Ross revealed what people can expect.
“It’s a love and it’s an admiration. So that was played there. How much of it is a love that’s between two lovers is a different story, because that, then, would have called for there to be different kinds of scenes in the movie,” she explained. “I played it as love and longing. Ultimately, what’s happening with them is that the person who Robyn loves is leaving. No matter if you’re lovers or a best friend, when someone you love leaves to get married, your relationship is going to change. That’s what I played.”
The nature of friendship Houston had with Jones first became the subject of speculation back in the ’80s, although the singer denied any romantic involvement in a 1987 interview with Time.
“People see Robyn with me, and they draw their own conclusions. Anyway, whose business is it if you’re gay or like dogs? What others do shouldn’t matter. Let people talk. It doesn’t bother me because I know I’m not gay. I don’t care.”
Whitney, will air Saturday, January 17, 2015, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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