A Terribly Odd Couple
Let’s talk about Bobby Brown, the R&B singer who many believed weighed Whitney down. The two rising stars met in 1989, and let’s be honest, they could not have been more unfit for each other. Whitney was a mesmerizing, classy soul princess, and Bobby was an erratic bad boy who took his clothes off on stage whenever he had the chance. Yet, somehow, they clicked. “Bobby is the man of my life,” Whitney made sure to say in nearly every one of her interviews.
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But—and as normally happens in every relationship—once the honeymoon phase was over, the dirty laundry started creeping up. And in Whitney and Bobby’s case, it came in the form of DUIs, speeding tickets, illegal possessions, and even public urination (Bobby once peed in the back of a police car). But, incredibly, no matter how messy things got at times, Whitney stood by her man’s side, always.
In truth, no one really understood what she saw in him (sorry Bobby). But her public relationship wasn’t the only thing troubling her. In fact, it was her secretive one that was no less painful.