Whitney Houston's well-nigh known human relationship is her fourteen-twelvemonth marriage to Bobby Chocolate-brown. The wedlock was tabloid fodder, with rumors about turmoil and addiction constantly making headlines. But Houston likewise had some other romances, and manifestly major admirers. In a resurfaced interview prune, Houston told a talk evidence host that actor Robert De Niro pursued her for many years.

Whitney Houston and Robert De Niro
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Whitney Houston jokes that Robert De Niro was 'sweating her'

Houston made an appearance on The Byron Allen Show in 1990. During their conversation Houston says De Niro was basically chasing her around the world in an attempt to woo her.

"[He followed me] all the way to London," she told Allen. "I think he was there already and he sent me flowers and everything. He'south been on my case, he'd been sweating me for a little while."

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Around the same time, Houston was likewise casually dating Eddie Murphy, which the tabloids gossiped almost often. When asked how she was handling two superstars fawning over her at the same time, Houston didn't know what to make of information technology. Allen explained that both men attended Houston's show at Carnegie Hall.

"Lord accept mercy, I'k and then pop, I tin't stand it," she joked. "Yeah, he [De Niro] chosen me that nighttime. He was a picayune bit shy and then he didn't desire to come to the testify. He shies away from the public eye. Merely since then, he had sending me flowers and he wanted to go to know me improve."

She too noted that De Niro was interested in doing a movie with Houston. Houston's commencement motion picture part would be the international box function smash The Bodyguard released in 1992. Still, at the time, she admired De Niro's chops.

"I recall he's a wonderful role player, one of the all-time," she gushed to Allen.

The vocaliser went on to marry Bobby Dark-brown and says jealousy and outside forced ended their wedlock

The reason Houston ignored both De Niro and Murphy'south advances was more than likely because she had her eye on Brown. The two singers met at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards and began dating presently after.

They married at Houston's New Jersey mansion in July 1992. Their daughter, Bobbi Kristina Chocolate-brown, was born in March 1993. From the starting time, much of the public did non understand the attraction, likening Dark-brown to a playboy and Houston to a darling musical princess. The result was constant media scrutiny.

While Houston and Brown acknowledge to marital trouble, including drug and alcohol abuse and adultery, they also insist that the constant media influence made it hard to maintain their relationship.

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In 2006, Houston filed for divorce. She told Oprah Winfrey that the filing was a long time coming during a 2009 interview and said Brown was jealous of her success.

"He put everything to the side and said, 'I'll go with you, don't worry about it, we'll practise this affair,'" Houston said of Brown's decision to travel with her and raise their family during the height of her success. She says he later resented her for it.

"I think somewhere within, something happens to a human when a woman has that much command and that much fame," she continued. She says Brown was supportive and loving but the public's constant comparison of their careers made him envious. "Nosotros had a lot of people antagonizing and try to pull at us."

Houston later dated vocalist and family friend Ray J, who was more a decade her junior. Chocolate-brown married Alicia Ethridge, a music manager, in 2012.