Whitney Houston hit on Mica Paris when she was 19, claims British singer
Mica Paris has shared on a flirty evening she spent with late music icon Whitney Houston over 30 years ago
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Mica Paris has claimed that pop legend Whitney Houston hit on her when she was just 19.
The British singer, now 51, shared on the flirty encounter that took part at a dinner with the Whitney and her crew – who she met at a gig they were both performing at – over 30 years ago.
Mica dished that the I Have Nothing hitmaker started playing footsie with her under the table and that she did not know how to respond to the “sweet” and “beautiful” star.
Sharing the story with Martin and Roman Kemp on their new morning show Martin & Roman’s Sunday Best! Mica told: “This massive limousine comes along and we’re all like looking out and it’s… Whitney!
“She comes out with about seven or eight bodyguards, walks in and is so sweet, humble, just beautiful.
“[We] did our performances, and she said ‘why don’t you come for dinner with us. So we went for dinner.”
Explaining how things started to heat up, she revealed: “I was around the dinner table, she started playing footsie with me under the table, like literally, and I’m from South London at that time, I was 19, I didn’t really know about that kind of thing, the footsie I thing.”
“Then my make-up guy said to me, [whispering] ‘she fancies you’. I was like ‘what? nah’.”
Much-loved superstar Whitney was tragically found unconscious and submerged in the bathtub in her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in 2012, aged just 48.
It was claimed in 2016 that Whitney was bisexual, and that she had a secret lesbian relationship with her assistant Robyn Crawford, but that she kept it quiet to avoid upsetting her mother, Cissy.
Whitney’s ex-husband Bobby Brown told Us Weekly magazine: “I really feel that if Robyn was accepted into Whitney’s life, Whitney would still be alive today. She didn’t have close friends with her anymore.”
Cissy wrote about her dislike for Robyn in her 2013 book Remembering Whitney.
In an interview with Oprah, she was asked if she would have been bothered if her daughter was gay.
Cissy snapped back: “Absolutely.”
Oprah asked: “You wouldn’t have condoned it?”
And Cissy said: “Not at all.”
She continued: “I didn’t particularly like [Crawford]. She just spoke too much, disrespectful sometimes, like she had something over Nippy [Whitney’s nickname], and I didn’t like that at all. She was all right, she turned out to be all right, I guess. That was her friend.”
Whitney and Robyn bonded when they were teenagers and worked together at a community centre in New Jersey.
Whitney was rescued from bullies by Robyn on a number of occasions, with the star being targeted at school when her modelling career began to take off.
It’s been claimed that deep into Whitney’s 14-year marriage to Bobby, Robyn was still very much a part of her life.
Whitney’s make up artist and friend Ellin Lavar gave her thoughts on the relationship in Can I Be Me.
She said: “I don’t think she was gay, I think she was bisexual. Robyn provided a safe place for her. In that Whitney found safety and solace.”
And gay rights activist Peter Tatchell once said Robyn was Whitney’s true love.
He told Pink News in 2012: “When I met them [Whitney and Robyn], it was obvious they were madly in love. Their intimacy and affection was so sweet and romantic.”
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