*Whitney Houston’s former bodyguard, David Roberts, remains outraged at her team for failing to get her the help she needed before her untimely death.
As RadarOnline reports, Roberts, who inspired Kevin Costner’s character in “The Bodyguard,” revealed that he risked his job to expose those supplying Houston with drugs. According to FOX News, Roberts was hired in 1988 for Houston’s UK “Moment of Truth” tour. In his new book “Protecting Whitney: The Memoir of Her Bodyguard,” Roberts claims industry advisors avoided sending her to rehab to protect her “clean-cut image.”
“You and I should be sitting listening to her new records, but we’re not, because it was allowed to happen,” said Roberts ahead of the book’s release. “She needed help and was overwhelmed because of everything that was going on in her life, and her health did not come first,” he added.
“My anger and hatred towards those who had facilitated Whitney’s ability to do this to herself was profound,” Roberts continued.
“Good heavens, I had talks with her team members about things. The argument back in the day was if one goes into rehabilitation, then one’s reputation is tarnished.”
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David noted that “The Bodyguard” follows “many of the elements that we, Whitney and I, have experienced,” he said.
“You get fanatics around the world, and you have to keep them away,” Roberts said of protecting the late superstar.
“A man with a rifle or bomb is the most difficult threat to deal with. I carried a firearm wherever we went, whether it was legal or illegal.”
He recalled an incident in 1991 when three autograph hounds clashed with the singer and her brother at a hotel in Kentucky.
“One guy was thumping Whitney’s brother in the face and so I hit the guy once and he fell and went over the sofa,” Roberts explained.
“I’m now dealing with three of these people who are a threat. One of them was standing behind me and Whitney smashed a bottle of Heineken on my head,” he recounted. “I turned around, grabbed him, picked him up and he was shouting, ‘It wasn’t me, it wasn’t me’.
“The reality is I had been facing one of the other attackers and Whitney threw the bottle to hit the attacker. If the bottle hadn’t hit my head, it would have smashed into the second guy’s face.”
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