Whitney Houston’s Lesbian Past Exposed

An explosive new Whitney Houston film examines her closeted relationship with longtime friend Robyn Crawford — and pins blame for the singer’s tragic downfall on the pair’s painful breakup!

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield’s “Whitney: Can I Be Me” dives headlong into stories familiar to readers of The National ENQUIRER, who first learned in 1988 of an alleged Whitney love triangle involving both Kelly McGillis and Jodie Foster, who later came out as lesbians.

Although Broomfield apparently did not secure Robyn’s cooperation in the production, friends, family members and archival footage help trace the undeniable truth that the Whitney-Robyn relationship wasn’t merely a case of platonic besties.

“I really feel that if Robyn was accepted into Whitney’s life, Whitney would still be alive today,” Whitney’s ex-husband Bobby Brown wrote in his book, “Every Little Step.” And the new film supports the connection between Robyn’s exile and the “I Will Always Love You” singer’s death.

As previously detailed in The ENQUIRER, Whitney and Robyn met in East Orange, NJ, when they were both 16. As Whitney’s career took off and their relationship blossomed, Robyn became the singer’s inseparable assistant — and it became harder to mask the full extent of their connection.

At one point, the FBI even became involved. Top-secret files unearthed by The ENQUIRER showed that Whitney had to pay off blackmailers who threatened to reveal that the songstress was in a lesbian relationship — although the files do not name the other woman.

Brought up in religious surroundings — Whitney’s mom is the Grammy winning soul and gospel singer Cissy Houston — the tragic singer’s family looked askance on her relationship with Robyn. As the ENQUIRER reported, one angry relative even went so far as to blame Whitney's drug binges on her affairs with women.

Despite determined efforts by Whitney's family and husband to keep the pair apart, Robyn returned more than once to rescue her drug-crazed friend. But her patience ran out. "Robyn was simply fed up with having to clean up the messes that Whitney left," an insider told The ENQUIRER. "Robyn yelled at her, 'I can't just sit by and watch you kill yourself!'"

In 2013 — a year after Whitney’s death in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub with a "cocktail" of drugs in her system — Cissy published “Remembering Whitney,” a memoir that found her still seething Robyn’s hold on her daughter.  "I had a bad feeling about that child from the first time I saw her," Cissy wrote. "There was something about the way she carried herself, a kind of arrogance, that I didn't like."

An insider told The ENQUIRER that pressuring Whitney to marry Bobby was part of Cissy’s plan to pull her daughter away from Robyn in 1992. The tragic couple’s drug use made headlines and their daughter — Bobbi Kristina Brown — eventually died after enduring her own drug addictions.

Like Robyn, neither Cissy nor Bobby agreed to participate in Broomfield’s documentary, which enjoyed a splashy premiere this week at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. At once of a piece and very different from his earlier music-related films "Kurt & Courtney" and "Biggie & Tupac," it may well be viewed by fans as "Whitney & Robyn."