Whitney Houston'southward nearly known relationship is her 14-year marriage to Bobby Brown. The wedlock was tabloid fodder, with rumors virtually turmoil and addiction constantly making headlines. Only Houston also had some other romances, and apparently major admirers. In a resurfaced interview clip, Houston told a talk prove 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 attempt to woo her.

"[He followed me] all the way to London," she told Allen. "I think he was in that location already and he sent me flowers and everything. He'southward been on my example, he'd been sweating me for a little while."

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Around the same time, Houston was also casually dating Eddie Murphy, which the tabloids gossiped about often. When asked how she was treatment two superstars fawning over her at the same fourth dimension, Houston didn't know what to brand of it. Allen explained that both men attended Houston's testify at Carnegie Hall.

"Lord have mercy, I'm and then popular, I can't stand it," she joked. "Yep, he [De Niro] chosen me that night. He was a petty bit shy then he didn't want to come to the prove. He shies away from the public centre. Only since and then, he had sending me flowers and he wanted to get to know me better."

She besides noted that De Niro was interested in doing a movie with Houston. Houston's first flick role would be the international box office boom The Bodyguard released in 1992. Nonetheless, at the time, she admired De Niro'southward chops.

"I call up he's a wonderful actor, ane of the best," she gushed to Allen.

The singer went on to marry Bobby Dark-brown and says jealousy and exterior forced concluded their union

The reason Houston ignored both De Niro and Murphy'south advances was more than likely because she had her heart on Brown. The two singers met at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards and began dating soon afterward.

They married at Houston's New Jersey mansion in July 1992. Their daughter, 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 Chocolate-brown admit to marital trouble, including drug and alcohol corruption and infidelity, they also insist that the constant media influence made it difficult to maintain their human 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 Dark-brown was jealous of her success.

"He put everything to the side and said, 'I'll go with you, don't worry about it, we'll exercise this thing,'" Houston said of Brown's decision to travel with her and raise their family during the height of her success. She says he subsequently resented her for it.

"I think somewhere inside, something happens to a human being when a woman has that much control and that much fame," she continued. She says Brownish was supportive and loving but the public'southward constant comparison of their careers made him envious. "We had a lot of people antagonizing and try to pull at us."

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