Whitney Houston's nearly known relationship is her fourteen-year union to Bobby Brown. The union was tabloid fodder, with rumors almost turmoil and addiction constantly making headlines. But Houston also had another romances, and apparently major admirers. In a resurfaced interview clip, Houston told a talk show host that actor Robert De Niro pursued her for many years.

Whitney Houston and Robert De Niro
Whitney Houston and Robert De Niro via Getty

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

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

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

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Around the same time, Houston was also casually dating Eddie Potato, which the tabloids gossiped well-nigh often. When asked how she was handling ii superstars fawning over her at the same time, Houston didn't know what to make of it. Allen explained that both men attended Houston's evidence at Carnegie Hall.

"Lord have mercy, I'1000 so popular, I can't stand it," she joked. "Yeah, he [De Niro] chosen me that nighttime. He was a lilliputian bit shy so he didn't want to come to the evidence. He shies away from the public centre. Simply since then, he had sending me flowers and he wanted to get to know me meliorate."

She besides noted that De Niro was interested in doing a movie with Houston. Houston'south kickoff movie office would be the international box office smash The Bodyguard released in 1992. Still, at the fourth dimension, she admired De Niro'south chops.

"I think he'southward a wonderful thespian, i of the best," she gushed to Allen.

The singer went on to marry Bobby Chocolate-brown and says jealousy and outside forced concluded their marriage

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

They married at Houston's New Jersey mansion in July 1992. Their daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brownish, was born in March 1993. From the start, much of the public did not understand the allure, likening 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 infidelity, 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 y'all, don't worry about it, nosotros'll do this affair,'" Houston said of Brown'south decision to travel with her and enhance their family during the height of her success. She says he later resented her for information technology.

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

Houston subsequently dated singer and family friend Ray J, who was more than a decade her junior. Brown married Alicia Ethridge, a music managing director, in 2012.