MY BIOGRAPHY

For years, their romance has been the subject of rumour and speculation. Two
recent films about Houston's life, Whitney: Can I Be Me and the family-sanctioned
Whitney, raked over the coals of their relationship - suggesting Crawford was the
real love of her life.

Crawford always declined to comment on her life with Houston - appearing in those
films via archive footage, but never agreeing to an interview.

But now that everyone else has had their say, Crawford has decided to tell her
story. "Why now?" she asks in the introduction to her new memoir, A Song For
You.

"Believe me, I've done my best to stay out of the spotlight [but] I believe it is my
duty to honour my friend and to clarify the many inaccuracies about myself and
about who Whitney was".

She confirms, for the first time, her romantic history with Houston, which began
when they were teenagers and lasted two years.

"It wasn't all about our sleeping together," she stresses in the book. "We could trust
each other with our secrets, our feelings, and who we were. We were friends, we
were lovers. We were everything to each other. We weren't falling in love. We just
were. We had each other. We were one: that's how it felt."

Houston broke off the relationship just after she signed her record deal, handing
Crawford a Bible and telling her she feared public exposure.