Robin crawford where is she now

A profile from NJ. She lives in New Jersey with her wife and children. PromisedLandMag July 6, The BBC reports that the relationship between the two young women ended when Houston signed a deal with a record company.

The Guardian reported that Crawford found it hard to see Houston after their relationship ended, particularly when Houston started dating men. By Tucker Archer. We were everything to each other. We weren't falling in love. We just were. We had each other. We were one: that's how it felt. Houston broke off the relationship just after she signed her record deal, handing Crawford a Bible and telling her she feared public exposure.

Crawford remained a devoted friend and emotional bulwark, anchoring Houston to her past, and steadying the ship of her often-turbulent private life. She candidly describes their drug use and how she watched, helplessly, as her friend's habit spiralled out of control. By the time Crawford quit Houston's team in , the star was cancelling shows and missing recording sessions.

She suspected the singer was being physically abused by her husband, Bobby Brown, and had found burned spoons in her kitchen. Crawford's own story isn't much happier - she is the daughter of a single mother, who left her husband after years of abuse; and lost two of her closest family members to Aids. But the book isn't overwhelmingly bleak. After escaping Houston's orbit, Crawford slowly rebuilt her life, and is now happily married with two adopted children.

She has worked as a journalist, interviewing the likes of Jessica Biel and Kristen Bell, and is currently a fitness trainer. Her goal in writing the book was to erase the memory of Houston's tragic death , drowning in a bathtub on the eve of the Grammy awards, and remind the world she was "bighearted, unselfish, hilarious" and phenomenally talented - whether she was singing at the Super Bowl, learning to act on the set of The Bodyguard, or celebrating in church where some parishioners were so overwhelmed by her vocals they would faint.

I want to lift her so she can hold her legacy up way high," Crawford tells the BBC, as she recounts the making of her memoir. What was it like to rekindle all these old memories as you wrote the book? I spent most of the last two-and-a-half years feeling and reliving the 80s and the 90s to the point that my son said one day, "I'll be glad when mom is finished writing this book, so she can play with me again".

It's really true, you know? Sometimes they would disturb me and I'd be in a thought, so it would be a delayed reaction, or I might snap at them. So I really was not the mommy that I had been, attentive to every little thing. And the process of writing was like a roller coaster of emotions. The beginning, where we were bright-eyed, adventurous, fearless; then all the wild years achieving all the things we had talked about; and then my family and the challenges there.

So there were tears of joy, tears of sadness, strain. You speak about watching Whitney in the studio, and how she could breathe life into a song; but I wondered what it was like to hear her sing in private, at home or in the car?

I used to call that the pre-concert! We had this house in New Jersey and, in the great room, there was a dome. She would go into that room and just sing - gospel, jazz, Al Jarreau, whatever came to her - because the acoustics were like brilliant. I remember one night she was in that room singing Fly Me To The Moon, it was so effortless that it sounded like she really was flying. In those early days, it sounded like you had a lot of fun. Having water gun fights in hotel corridors and exploring the world together.

The one thing about Whitney is she was like a kid. She wanted to have as much fun as she possibly could. I remember Whitney would rent out Lehigh University's arena in Pennsylvania to prepare for tours, and we'd always play football outside on their field.

One time, for the last play, we told her, 'OK, the entire line is going to go right and we're going to block for you. You pause for a second, one second , and shoot to the right behind us.

But when we all went to the right, she went to the left. She ran right into one guy, they clipped knees and she toppled over. Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford. Credit: Courtesy Robyn Crawford. The singer broke the news by giving Crawford a gift of a slate blue Bible one day in I found comfort in my silence. Robyn Crawford, Whitney Houston. The memoir. For years, Houston and Crawford effectively functioned as a couple, living together, occasionally and chastely sharing a bed, and remaining emotionally close.

They would stay up late talking about music and hatching plans. But when Houston started dating Jermaine Jackson in the mids, then Eddie Murphy , and rap star Bobby Brown , whom she married, Crawford admits it was tremendously difficult. This would be the pattern of their lives together for the next 10 years: Crawford as the person to whom Houston would turn as the pressures of fame intensified.

And believe me, people knocked on the door. In , when Crawford suggested to Cissy that the singer needed help for her drug addiction, she was given short shrift. Eventually she quit, 20 years after she and Houston first met. I t is a distorting effect of fame that minor episodes can assume a much larger prominence than they deserve.

Had Houston not been in the spotlight, her teenage romance with Crawford would probably have fizzled out anyway, leaving them free to continue on comfortably as friends. Instead, their relationship became the elephant in the room. And yet, as Crawford points out, the emotions were real. The coroner ruled her death to be accidental drowning, brought on in part by cocaine and heart disease. You are lucky to say you have a friend, and one you have through your life. Viewed from the outside, the confusing thing about all this is that, for much of the time, the relationship appeared to be starkly uneven.

Houston opened up the world for Crawford, exposing her to all the glamour, travel and interest that kind of fame can deliver.

But the singer could also be capricious and spiteful. Once, while Crawford was on tour with Houston in London, she went on a date with one of her dancers. But she gave me a hug right after.