Whitney Houston's almost known relationship is her 14-yr marriage to Bobby Chocolate-brown. The marriage was tabloid fodder, with rumors nigh turmoil and addiction constantly making headlines. But Houston too had some other romances, and apparently major admirers. In a resurfaced interview clip, Houston told a talk prove host that player 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 appearance on The Byron Allen Show in 1990. During their conversation Houston says De Niro was basically chasing her around the world in an try to woo her.

"[He followed me] all the way to London," she told Allen. "I remember he was there already and he sent me flowers and everything. He's been on my example, he'd been sweating me for a piddling while."

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Effectually the aforementioned fourth dimension, Houston was besides casually dating Eddie Potato, which the tabloids gossiped nearly often. When asked how she was handling two superstars fawning over her at the same time, Houston didn't know what to make of it. Allen explained that both men attended Houston's show at Carnegie Hall.

"Lord have mercy, I'm so popular, I can't stand up it," she joked. "Yeah, he [De Niro] called me that nighttime. He was a piffling bit shy so he didn't want to come to the show. He shies away from the public eye. Just since then, he had sending me flowers and he wanted to get to know me better."

She also noted that De Niro was interested in doing a motion picture with Houston. Houston'due south first movie office would exist the international box office boom The Bodyguard released in 1992. Withal, at the time, she admired De Niro'south chops.

"I think he's a wonderful actor, 1 of the best," she gushed to Allen.

The vocalizer went on to marry Bobby Dark-brown and says jealousy and outside forced ended their matrimony

The reason Houston ignored both De Niro and Potato'due south advances was more than than probable considering she had her eye on Brownish. The ii singers met at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards and began dating shortly afterward.

They married at Houston's New Jersey mansion in July 1992. Their daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was built-in in March 1993. From the start, much of the public did not empathize the allure, likening Brown to a playboy and Houston to a darling musical princess. The result was constant media scrutiny.

While Houston and Brown acknowledge 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 Brown was jealous of her success.

"He put everything to the side and said, 'I'll go with you lot, don't worry almost it, we'll exercise this matter,'" Houston said of Chocolate-brown's decision to travel with her and raise their family during the height of her success. She says he later resented her for it.

"I think somewhere inside, something happens to a man when a adult female has that much control and that much fame," she connected. She says Brown was supportive and loving but the public'southward abiding comparison of their careers made him envious. "We had a lot of people antagonizing and endeavour to pull at us."

Houston later dated singer and family unit friend Ray J, who was more than a decade her junior. Brownish married Alicia Ethridge, a music managing director, in 2012.