Sophia Michaels
Despite their shared history with Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson maintained a strong friendship in the early years of their music careers. Despite their shared history with Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson maintained a strong friendship in the early years of their music careers.
Despite their shared history with Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson maintained a strong friendship in the early years of their music careers. Following Houston’s untimely death in 2012, Jackson was stunned. “I couldn’t believe it. Immediately I started shaking … I was speechless,” Jackson said about Houston’s passing, while appearing on “Anderson Cooper 360°.” The “Any Time, Any Place” artist added, “She was such a sweet, sweet soul.”
Jackson also shared that she and Houston were closest in the ’80s and ’90s. “It doesn’t matter if we were doing an awards show. We would always take the time out to find one another,” Jackson said. Coincidentally, that was around the same time that the “Poetic Justice” actor reportedly dated Brown. In 1990, Fresh magazine featured a photo of the potential couple on its cover with the headline “Janet and Bobby! Together on Top.” An interview from 1989 shed some light on their romance. “As you know I’m madly in love with her and can’t be with her,” the “Don’t Be Cruel” singer shared on BET’s “Video Soul,” via People.
