How a Whitney Houston documentary uncovered her tragic sexual abuse
There is one particularly poignant moment in the new “Whitney” documentary — about the late, legendary pop goddess Whitney Houston — when her older half brother Gary Houston gets straight to the heart of the family dysfunction that contributed to his sister’s ultimate downfall. “There were always a lot of secrets,” he confesses. “If you don’t resolve things and you don’t deal with things, they never go away.”
But Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald didn’t discover the biggest secret of all — that both Whitney and Gary were allegedly molested by their late cousin, singer Dee Dee Warwick (sister of Dionne), when they were kids — until the 11th hour of making the film last fall. “I was just coming to the end of the edit,” Macdonald tells The Post. “We had worked on it for about 18 months, and then we heard this bombshell, which redefined the whole thing.”
This revelation gave the documentary — which opens in theaters Friday after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May — another tragic turn in Houston’s tale, which ended in when the year-old singer accidentally drowned in her hotel room bathtub. (Co
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On DVD & Blu-ray:October 18th, - Buy DVD
Movie Box Office Gross:$1,, (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Joe Patrick, Rosanne Korenberg, Andy Mayson, Nicole David, Mike Runagall, Will Clarke, Zanne Devine, Patricia Houston
Production Companies:Lightbox Entertainment, Altitude Film Entertainment, Happy Street Entertainment
Whitney on the Web:Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Official Website
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