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Denzel Washington is reflecting on his relationship with the late Whitney Houston.
The pair costarred collectively within the 1996 movie “The Preacher’s Spouse” and developed a friendship. Houston died from an unintentional drowning in 2012 at age 48.
Washington spoke concerning the singer and actress throughout a profession retrospective on the current American Black Movie Competition in Miami, in response to People magazine.
“I all the time felt like I needed to guard her,” he stated. “You recognize? She needed to be so robust, however she actually wasn’t.”
The remake of the 1947 movie “The Bishop’s Spouse” additionally costarred Courtney Vance.
“For me to be enjoying her husband, I used to be in a state of euphoric shock,” Vance advised People of Houston in November. “I cherished her a lot. It was a turning level in my life and Whitney was an enormous, large a part of that.”
He stated he wasn’t conscious on the time of the extent of her issues with substance abuse.
“We simply had been on units collectively and respecting one another,” the actor stated. “However I didn’t go into the depth of what was taking place in her life.”