Angela Bassett Explains Why Fans Blamed Bobby Brown For Whitney Houston’s Drug Habit

when there is such a loss…of such a beloved individual to your community, to your life, to your culture, to your soundtrack…So you gotta have a bad guy, you gotta have a demon, you gotta have the devil, you gotta have something to say it wasn’t her fault. She didn’t make a choice. The choice was made for her by Bobby. And that’s a lie.

Why Whitney’s songs had to be re-recorded even if family was supportive of film:

Even if the family were, let’s say, ‘on board’ the songs would’ve had to be recorded anyway. A lot of Whitney’s songs, if you look at them, they are seven, eight, nine-minute renditions,” she explains. “You can’t use that and I know that from doing What’s Love [Got to Do with It],” Angela says, referencing her starring role as Tina Turner in the hit 1993 biopic.

We had to redo those songs, all of those songs for whatever reasons. They were old recordings and scratchy or they’re new recordings and they’re just too long.

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