This is an interview with Yolanda Ross who plays Robyn Crawford (Whitney's rumored girlfriend).
I have to confess, I had no idea that Whitney had a rumored gay lover before reading about your role in this movie. No clue!
Really?! That’s funny. I was here in New York before she was with Bobby. So I knew of Robyn. It’s funny how many people don’t know of her because they’re younger or people who didn’t get on to Whitney until she was already with Bobby. But I already knew of her and of the whole situation. When you look back at it, it’s interesting how that part, which was a thing that was actually written in the press at one time, was squashed and brushed away when all the other stuff happened in her life later.
There are people who wrote after Whitney died that as much as people blamed her marriage to Bobby as sending her addiction, it was actually leaving Robyn that could have set that in motion. That Robyn was her rock.
From what I heard on set and from people who knew the both of them and was in and around their lives at the time, you had to go through Robyn to get to Whitney. She really did take care of things. I can’t say it for sure, but she might have been the person who really kept her in line, to some degree. The partying was always there. It was there Whitney became iconic.
What was your favorite Robyn and Whitney scene from the movie?
There’s a scene on the airplane that was one of my favorites for a lot of reasons. It’s right after the first time Whitney goes out with Bobby on a date, and Robyn is dealing with that. She takes in the information, takes in Whitney’s giddiness, takes in her friend being made happy by somebody else. It’s all that after-the-fact stuff, looking at what someone does in that moment is always interesting.
And Whitney gives her a gift, too. That was one of the times where I felt like there was something more going on between them.
I thought it was like one of those guilty things, you know? [Laughs] Like when a guy cheats on his girl and says, “Oh, here’s a bracelet! Here’s a ring!” That kind of thing. It felt like that kind of moment, with Whitney trying to smooth things over. I think that’s a really interesting moment between the two of them.
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