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The upcoming Whitney Houston documentary “Whitney” reveals that the singer was molested by a female family member as a child.
Filmmaker, Kevin Macdonald, whose behind the documentary, shared with Vanity Fair that while watching footage of the late singer, he noticed signs of someone who was abused.
“She seemed kind of asexual in a strange way. She was a beautiful woman, but she was never particularly sexy. I’ve seen and done some filming with people who have suffered childhood sexual abuse, and there was just something about her manner that was reminiscent to me of that sort of shrinking—a lack of comfort in her own physicality that felt, maybe that is what it was,” Macdonald revealed.
Soon after, it was confirmed to Macdonald that Houston was sexually abused as a child, by a female family member. The family member was their cousin Dee Dee Warwick, the sister of Dionne Warwick and the niece of Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, who died in 2008. Not only was Whitney molested, but her brother Gary Houston was too.
Asked about what led to his own addiction issues in the film, Gary tells Macdonald, “Being a child—being seven, eight, nine years old—and being molested by a female family member of mine. My mother and father were gone a lot, so we stayed with a lot of different people . . . four, five different families who took care of us.”
Macdonald convinced Whitney’s longtime assistant, Mary Jones, to speak on camera about the sexual abuse allegations.
“[Houston] looked at me and said, ‘Mary, I was molested at a young age too. But it wasn’t by a man—it was a woman,’” recalls Jones in the film. “She had tears in her eyes. She says, ‘Mommy don’t know the things we went through.’ I said, ‘Have you ever told your mother?’ She says, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Well, maybe you need to tell her.’ She said, ‘No, my mother would hurt somebody if I told her who it was.’ She just had tears rolling down her face, and I just hugged her. I said, ‘One day when you get the nerve, you need to tell your mother. It will lift the burden off you.’”
Asked why Houston never told her mother about the alleged abuse, Jones says, “I think she was ashamed . . . she used to say, ‘I wonder if I did something to make [Dee Dee] think I wanted her.’ I said, ‘Stop. A predator is a predator is a predator.’ If Cissy had known, she would have done something about it, because Cissy loves her children.’”
Macdonald shared with VF that Cissy Houston and Dionne Warwick both were made aware of the allegations in the documentary. Whitney releases in theaters on July 6th, 2018#Whitney
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