Whitney Houston's near known relationship is her xiv-year spousal relationship to Bobby Brown. The union was tabloid fodder, with rumors near turmoil and habit constantly making headlines. Only Houston also had some other romances, and obviously 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 advent on The Byron Allen Show in 1990. During their conversation Houston says De Niro was basically chasing her around the world in an endeavor to woo her.

"[He followed me] all the manner to London," she told Allen. "I remember he was in that location already and he sent me flowers and everything. He's been on my case, he'd been sweating me for a trivial while."

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

"Lord have mercy, I'chiliad so popular, I can't stand up it," she joked. "Yeah, he [De Niro] called me that nighttime. He was a little bit shy then he didn't want to come to the show. He shies away from the public eye. But since then, he had sending me flowers and he wanted to go to know me better."

She also noted that De Niro was interested in doing a movie with Houston. Houston's first movie role would be the international box office smash The Bodyguard released in 1992. All the same, at the fourth dimension, she admired De Niro'due south chops.

"I think he'southward a wonderful role player, one of the best," she gushed to Allen.

The vocalist went on to ally Bobby Brown and says jealousy and outside forced concluded their marriage

The reason Houston ignored both De Niro and Murphy's advances was more likely because she had her centre on Brown. The ii singers met at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards and began dating shortly after.

They married at Houston's New Bailiwick of jersey mansion in July 1992. Their girl, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was born in March 1993. From the start, much of the public did not understand the attraction, likening Brown to a playboy and Houston to a darling musical princess. The result was constant media scrutiny.

While Houston and Brown admit to marital trouble, including drug and booze abuse and infidelity, they besides insist that the abiding media influence made it difficult 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 lot, don't worry near it, we'll practice this thing,'" Houston said of Brown'southward decision to travel with her and raise their family during the height of her success. She says he afterwards resented her for it.

"I think somewhere within, something happens to a man when a woman has that much control and that much fame," she connected. She says Brown was supportive and loving but the public's constant comparing of their careers fabricated him envious. "We had a lot of people antagonizing and try to pull at us."

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