Whitney Houston’s former bodyguard makes brave admission

Whitney Houston’s former bodyguard David Roberts is opening up about his feelings for the late singer.

Roberts, 73, was speaking to Daily Mail of his time protecting the singer prior to her 2012 death due to drug overdose.

In a rare admission, the Welsh-born Roberts shared that there was one evening when the iconic singer rested her head on his shoulder and he was tempted to “give up everything” to change the nature of their relationship.

“If you cross that line, you lose your objectivity, and that makes it dangerous for the person you’re protecting,” he told the outlet before giving a reference of the 1992 movie The Bodyguard which was loosely based on them.

“That was why Frank Farmer [Kevin Costner’s character in The Bodyguard] and Rachel Marron [Houston’s character] couldn’t be together—he crossed the line and that was the end of him in the capacity of what he was employed to do.”

“Much of what was contained in the film, she and I actually lived through,” Roberts said of his time as Houston’s bodyguard from 1988 to 1995.

“Little details such as Rachel holding onto the back of his shirt to escape crowds of fans. That was how we did it.”

Roberts, who now lives in Florida, also revealed that he still has a note that Houston wrote him more than 35 years ago.

‘It was [on] a Post-it note and she pushed it under the door of my room at the Regency Hotel in Hong Kong in 1988. I still have it—it’s rather faded with time but still precious to me,” he said.

The former police officer also recounted experiencing several serious security threats during his time with the six-time Grammy winner, who was only 23 when they first met.

Roberts’ interview comes ahead of the publication of his memoir Protecting Whitney, which is set to be released in January 2025.