Robyn Crawford held nothing back when she came face-to-face with Wendy Williams nearly twenty years after the former radio host's notorious interview with the late Whitney Houston.
During the sit-down, Robyn, who's currently promoting her new memoir A Song For You: My Life with Whitney Houston, discussed the 2003 interview, in which Whitney confronted Wendy over her years of gossip about her, including her drug use, financial issues, marital struggles (Whitney was married to Bobby Brown at the time), and her then-speculative romantic relationship with Robyn.
โIโve never met Whitney, I had never met her,โ Wendy told Robyn, who quickly retorted: โYou act like, you talk like you did."
โIโve only seen her in concert once and that was at the Beacon Theater in Boston when I was a burgeoning radio star in college radio," Wendy clarified, seemingly ignoring Robyn's jab. "Iโve only talked to her once, and that was on the radio. And that was that interview."
"I heard that interview, I got a call from my former assistant. I wasnโt working with Whitney. And she said Whitneyโs going to be on Wendy Williams. I said, โWhat do you mean sheโs going to be on Wendy?โ" Robyn recalled. โThat was the cumulative, fed up Whitney Houston that I heard.โ
Wendy then asked if Whitney was โfed up with me or fed up with the world?โ To which, Robyn responded, โYou had been talking about Whitney and myself for so long,โ referring to rumors that she and Whitney, who were longtime best friends, had been in a romantic relationship.
โBut it all came true. A lot of what I said is in this book. A lot of things I said were in this book,โ Wendy replied, noting that in Robyn's new memoir she confirms their relationship and reveals details about their love story.
However, Robyn seemed to ignore Wendy's comment, only acknowledging the far reach of Wendy's seemingly hurtful words. โEveryone lived by the radio back then. Weโre in the car, youโre talking like you lived with us, like youโre roommates with us. Weโre in the car, sitting still and Whitney would say, โWho theโฆ who is she? Who is this woman? I donโt even know what she looks like,โโ Robyn shared before adding that she and Wendy planned to do something about Wendy's loose lips.
โWe were gonnaโฆ We didnโt know what you looked like and our plan was to go down to Hudson Street โฆ and wait for you right outside,โ Robyn told Wendy, who looked completely shocked.
"I can't even fight. I would have run," the 55-year-old host replied.
โWe werenโt gonna fight, we just wanted to see you face-to-face and have a chat," Robyn's said with a mischievous smile.
Williams then said with a sigh of relief: "Iโm frightened. Oh my gosh, I dodged that bullet."
As previously reported, Robyn opened up about her romantic relationship with Whitney as well as their decades-spanning friendship in her memoir.
To find out more about their love story, click HERE.
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