{"id":169387,"date":"2022-12-27T04:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T04:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/i-wanna-dance-with-somebody-fact-check-whitney-houstons-true-story\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T04:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T04:18:04","slug":"i-wanna-dance-with-somebody-fact-check-whitney-houstons-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/i-wanna-dance-with-somebody-fact-check-whitney-houstons-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Wanna Dance With Somebody&#8217; fact check: Whitney Houston&#8217;s true story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Naomi Ackie stars as Whitney Houston in 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody'\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em><strong>Spoiler alert!  The following discusses plot points from the new biopic &#8220;I Wanna Dance With Somebody&#8221; and the real life of Whitney Houston.  Stop reading if you haven&#8217;t seen it yet and don&#8217;t want to know.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The scope of Whitney Houston&#8217;s life is so immense, it&#8217;s no wonder that many moments in &#8220;I Wanna Dance With Somebody&#8221; are depicted in rapid succession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The movie (in theaters now) was made with the cooperation of Houston&#8217;s estate, as well as her mentor, music mogul Clive Davis, imprinting it with a stamp of authenticity (and a bounty of her gorgeous pop songs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Still, creative license abounds in the most hallowed of biopics, so we sought clarity on several moments that made us say \u201chmm.\u201d  We enlisted an expert to assist: The film&#8217;s director Kasi Lemmons, who spent 17 months immersed in the making of \u201cI Wanna Dance With Somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here&#8217;s what Lemmons had to say about key points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>10 of her best:<\/strong> Clive Davis shares stories behind some of Whitney Houston&#8217;s songs<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_mt\">Did Whitney Houston have an affair with Jermaine Jackson?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Rumors swirled in the mid-&#8217;80s when Houston and Jackson recorded the duet \u201cIf You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful\u201d for Jackson&#8217;s 1986<strong> <\/strong>&#8220;Precious Moments&#8221; album. In the film, Houston and Jackson are seen batting eyes at each other in the recording booth, followed by Houston telling her jealous girlfriend, Robyn Crawford, that she had been intimate with Jackson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Lemmons confirmed that \u201cthere were strong emotions\u201d when the pair recorded together, which eventually led to an affair (Jackson was married at the time).  Jackson&#8217;s sister, LaToya, also<strong\/> said during a 2012 interview on \u201cThe Talk\u201d that her brother had admitted to the relationship.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_mt\">Did Whitney&#8217;s father, John Houston, tell her she had to date men in public?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:440px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/12\/24\/USAT\/7067fc6f-ac91-49e6-a824-c00630bf4e3a-DF-04173_rv2.jpg?ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/12\/24\/USAT\/7067fc6f-ac91-49e6-a824-c00630bf4e3a-DF-04173_rv2.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=880&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nafessa Williams stars as Robyn Crawford and Naomi Ackie as Whitney Houston in &quot;I Wanna Dance With Somebody,&quot; a Houston biopic that doesn't ignore her sexuality.\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Houston&#8217;s sexuality is addressed early in the film, as she and Crawford become fast friends and low-key romantic partners.  But Houston&#8217;s father, John, had definitive views about his daughter&#8217;s image, especially as her music career ignited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cWe talked to everybody around Whitney and (her father) John was very focused on the brand,\u201d says Lemmons.  \u201cWe heard from many sources that he was extremely unhappy when news started to break (about Whitney&#8217;s sexuality) and that he had threatened Robyn.\u201d <\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Concerns about Houston&#8217;s sexuality seemed &#8220;archaic even then,&#8221; Lemmons says.  &#8220;But (John) was very serious about her image. He wanted Whitney to be Barbie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_mt\">Did Whitney miss her father&#8217;s funeral because she was string out on drugs?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In the film, scenes of John Houston&#8217;s funeral are intercut with shots of Houston slumped in a chair at home, high on drugs.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While Houston did indeed skip her father&#8217;s funeral, Lemmons says it wasn&#8217;t necessarily because she was too drugged to attend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">More likely, Houston was still upset about her father suing her for breach of contract some months earlier, even though she forgave him on his deathbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But John died in 2003 and Whitney entered rehab in 2004. So her substance abuse struggles were &#8220;all around the same time,\u201d Lemmons adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>review:<\/strong> Whitney Houston biopic sings frustratingly familiar tune<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_mt\">Did Clive Davis have an intervention for Whitney at his house?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:440px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/12\/24\/USAT\/14e568a0-24e3-488d-9d82-46cbb2a99030-DF-09686_r.jpg?ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/12\/24\/USAT\/14e568a0-24e3-488d-9d82-46cbb2a99030-DF-09686_r.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=880&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Naomi Ackie recreates Whitney Houston's iconic 1991 Super Bowl performance of &quot;The Star-Spangled Banner.&quot;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It is well-documented that Houston&#8217;s mentor made many attempts to steer her toward sobriety, and Davis did bring Houston to his house at some point to administer tough love.  \u201cHe could tell us, &#8216;We were sitting over there,&#8217; \u201d Lemmons recalls.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_mt\">Did Whitney receive drugs from dealers who hid it in pens and pretended to be fans asking for her autograph?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The movie depicts Houston devising a sly manner to procure drugs: by swapping pens with a dealer posing as a fan wanting an autograph.  (The drugs were stashed inside the pen.) While Lemmons assumes more than one dealer engaged in such transactions with Houston, she says screenwriter Anthony McCarten has footage of the \u201cfan\u201d speaking about the setup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cPeople take credit for the weirdest things,\u201d Lemmons says.  \u201cAfter Whitney died, several people came out and claimed they were her dealer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Read about the transformation:<\/strong>How Naomi Ackie approached playing Whitney Houston<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_mt\">Did Whitney have a drug transaction in the lobby of the Beverly Hilton the day she died?<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/a8690f8b09e28a833a1c08a244603f3a47fa330a\/c=0-72-1004-636\/local\/-\/media\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/2013\/01\/28\/16-whitney.jpg?resize=660%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Houston, 48, died of an accidental drowning in 2012 in her hotel bathtub hours before Davis&#8217; annual pre-Grammy party at the hotel.  Every autopsy found cocaine, Xanax, marijuana and other substances in every system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The movie shows Houston walking through the hotel lobby the afternoon of her death and encountering the same long-haired autograph-seeker with whom she had swapped pens earlier in the movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Lemmons says she \u201chas on good authority\u201d that Houston indeed procured drugs the day of her death, but likely didn&#8217;t do it herself.  (Cameras in the hotel lobby surely would have captured Houston.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cFamous people have people to help you with those transactions,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_mt\">Did Whitney have a conversation with a hotel bartender hours before her death?<\/h2>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_vp gnt_em_vp__yt\" data-g-r=\"vp_tp\" data-c-vt=\"youtube\" aria-label=\"YouTube video\" aria-live=\"polite\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img gnt_em_vp_img__yn\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/NyzTQOBAzI4\/maxresdefault.jpg?ssl=1\" onload=\"if(this.naturalWidth&lt;200){this.setAttribute('onload','this.classList.remove('gnt_em_vp_img__yn')');this.src=\" https:=\"\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><svg class=\"gnt_em_vp_svg\"><use xlink:href=\"#gnt_svg_video_play\"\/><\/svg><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">If it seems unlikely that a Houston-sized superstar would be hanging out in a hotel bar during the day and engage in a conversation with a bartender, well, that interaction, sweet as it is, never took place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In a moving monologue, the bartender reminds Houston of her greatness, recalling her epic 1994 American Music Awards performance (a medley of \u201cI Loves You Porgy,\u201d \u201cAnd I Am Telling You I&#8217;m Not Going\u201d and \u201cI Have Nothing\u201d ) that is faithfully re-created at the end the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But, alas, \u201cthat was just a lovely piece of writing,\u201d Lemmons says.  \u201cWe wanted her to connect with a fan who would have really strong feelings about her.  I&#8217;m sure she had many of those kinds of encounters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Best albums of 2022 ranked:<\/strong> Harry Styles, MUNA, Taylor Swift make the list<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/10\/27\/USAT\/d51d5f72-68d4-462c-8fdd-2267792ef320-Black_Panther_Wakanda_Forever.jpg?resize=660%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/10\/27\/USAT\/d51d5f72-68d4-462c-8fdd-2267792ef320-Black_Panther_Wakanda_Forever.jpg?crop=4999,2812,x0,y333&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler alert! The following discusses plot points from the new biopic &#8220;I Wanna Dance With Somebody&#8221; and the real life of Whitney Houston. 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