Was it a new episode? For some reason, I thought that they were rerunning an earlier episode from last year or before. If it is new, then I'll catch it at some point.

Re: Cissy's aversion to Whitney's (alleged) homosexuality. I can't say that I'm surprised that she'd say that, as she never struck me as the kind of woman that'd have a live and let live outlook when it came to this. I'm not sure how I feel about the claim (as per what I'd read in the Jezebel comment section) that she had a long history of being homophobic, though....

"Sometimes you have to just tell people to kiss your ass and keep on walking." I tried to explain that to her, but she'd just say, "Mommy you don't like anybody."

"What bricks?" I'd snap. "You ain't never lived in no damn projects! You ain't from no bricks. You're gonna get a brick upside your head."

"They Named her Bobbi Kristina-which wasa a hell of a lot better than what they'd initially chosen for her. A few days earlier, when I had asked Bobby and Nippy what they were naming the baby, Bobby said some kind of crazy name I couldn't even pronounce-Tekatia, or Takeka, or some mess like that."

I am sitting here CTFU because she sounds like my mom or my aunt when they get upset.

I wanted to start a thread the other day about the Cissy Oprah interview, so I'm glad that you bumped this one. Did anyone watch it? A lot of people are up in arms that Cissy said she'd be upset if Whitney had been gay. Not exactly a PC answer, but an honest one nonetheless. Cissy was in the biz and in the black church, she certainly knew and liked gay people. But she's still a very religious woman of a certain age with old school values about homosexuality. It's one thing for a fellow singer or church member to be gay, but that was NOT for one of her children. I don't agree with it, but I understand the mentality.

I'm dying over here those are hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqmghcghJL0

I will say this, at least Robyn hasn't been whoring her relationship with Whitney to the media or divulging private information about her to make a quick buck.

I can't say the same about the Houston family (Cissy included).

Edited January 31, 201312 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

I will say this, at least Robyn hasn't been whoring her relationship with Whitney to the media or divulging private information about her to make a quick buck.

I can't say the same about the Houston family (Cissy included).

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Yep. I would love to see Robin go on Oprah and lay it all out on the table. That would be fun to watch the fallout.

I'd rather she didn't, as I thought that she said all that she needed to say in her eulogy in Esquire (or was it their website?).

Was it a new episode? For some reason, I thought that they were rerunning an earlier episode from last year or before. If it is new, then I'll catch it at some point.

Last year was the interview with Bobbi Kristina, Gary, and Pat. Cissy didn't do an interview with them then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMfZpfp288

Last year was the interview with Bobbi Kristina, Gary, and Pat. Cissy didn't do an interview with them then.

Thanks for clarifying.

I can't believe it's been a year since she passed away. Time sure has flown by.

http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2013/02/bobbi-kristina-brown-slams-cissy-houston-book-remembering-whitney.html

After watching that Cissy interview on OWN, I checked out some online clips of The Houstons: On Our Own. It made me SO SAD to see how Bobbi was brushing off her grandmother. I don't see Cissy's book as disrespectful, or trying to "cash in" on their family tragedy (Pat, OTOH...). I think Cissy is devastated, alone, trying to work through her grief, and trying to get the last word, so to speak, on her beloved daughter. What's been said about Whitney for practically the last two decades of her life has been terribly disparaging and I think Cissy just wants the world to know who her daughter was at her very best.

Honestly, I don't think Cissy even knew who the real Whitney was for a good part of the last 15-20 years of Whitney's life.

We'll never get it, but that's why I think Robyn's "testimony" is the missing piece in this Whitney blitz. By all accounts, that was the defining relationship in Whitney's adult life (before their supposed falling out), regardless if it was anything sexual or not.

Edited February 4, 201312 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

Honestly, I don't think Cissy even knew who the real Whitney was for a good part of the last 15-20 years of Whitney's life.

I agree. I think she would rather focus on and lift up her daughter's best and brightest qualities as she knew them.

I think what was said/unsaid in that OWN interview and by Robyn and others really says it all. I think Cissy has her gut instincts re: the Robyn relationship but without solid proof she'll leave it at, "I don't know for sure."

I agree. I think she would rather focus on and lift up her daughter's best and brightest qualities as she knew them.

I think what was said/unsaid in that OWN interview and by Robyn and others really says it all. I think Cissy has her gut instincts re: the Robyn relationship but without solid proof she'll leave it at, "I don't know for sure."

SFK... It's obvious she just doesn't WANT to know for sure.