01-27-25 YMS Pt2 David Roberts Author of Protecting Whitney

He was not the bodyguard Kevin Costner was portraying, or was he??!!  Dave Roberts, Whitney Houston’s real-life bodyguard joins us on his book “Protecting Whitney.”

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael Deltru and.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I had a little theory. I've studied this tragedy for
a long time, and the theory is that I think
Whitney Houston was happiest singing in church. And I think
she would have been happy spending her entire life singing
to God in church. It was her mother's ambition that
drove her to fame, and a fame she couldn't handle.
What do you make of that theory?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Day just a minute now, When she started to sing gospel,
she went into a world that very few of footage.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, nobody ever has sense either.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Oh, when you saw that.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Vein on the left side of her throat and you
heard the sound, you knew when she came off stage
she would be hoarse, And she was hoarse every time
she came off stage. Yet twelve hours later, sixties hour later,
she sparkled stage to exactly the same.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Like Elvis Right, both started with the love for singing
for God. Both believe their gift came from God. Both
eventually lost their gift in their life. Her belief in
her Lord was her salvation. That is where she escaped.
In fact, I think it's CC Winings.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
CC Winers was a mental and we would escape from
the crowd, get on a plane, go to Tennessee. I
stay in the hotel and she stayed with CEC.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
That was how she got revitalized.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'd spent some time with CEC, who told some of
me talk about generosity, some stories of genera. We are
you just gonna understand?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
You could come here and live.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'll buy your you know. She was just that way
and there was that concern, all right. So bottom line
is what's the lesson of Whitney Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
It will be repeated. It will be repeated, unfortunately, and
it's up to people, not the individuals themselves, to protect
those people from themselves task such a hard task, but
it won't be the last.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
When you were living it, and you know the name
of the book Protecting Whitney, you made it clear. And
then she made her choice and it played out the
way it played out. Did it feel like a failure
for you as someone?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
I believe we all failed. We all failed her and adults.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, that's the other part of the tragedy, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yes, it is it is. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I was watching a recent documentary and it went into
some of the molestation confessions of Whitney Houston. That may
be why she brought her daughter everywhere and didn't leave
her with anyone, But it caused her to be around
a very dysfunctional in the home and on the road.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
When I left in ninety five, I did not, for
my own good to sue or watch any of her
progress or regression thereafter, beyond that which was thrust on
the television when she appeared.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
MAHD Michael Jackson concerts and the the interviews that made
it onto the news. This whacky is cracked and that
sort of and when she greeted her husband from prison
and that was on the news.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I think, you know, so sad in her in her day?
Was there anybody more beautiful? Was there anyone with a
greater gift? Was there anyone with a sweeter spirit? And
just can you NEWI there? Will it be? Let me
ask you this one last question. Difference between Nippy and
Whitney and who did you know best? Between who Nippy

(03:39):
and Whitney.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
There's a lot of time, yeah, miss Houston.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yes, Like she used to talk about how there's Whitney
and then there's Nippy. Nippy's the real her. Whitney is
the kind of public her. Which one did you spend
the most time with him? Could you notice a difference, Yes,
there was a difference.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
I'm both equally because when she wasn't under pressure to
do something, she was desperate for normalcy, and that's when
the nippy part of it came in. That's when she
just wanted to go and get a beef burger, get
a humburger, just a good McDonald's and go home, eat it.
That sort of thing. She was as normal as anybody

(04:18):
trying to be as normal as anybody else you'd.

Speaker 7 (04:21):
Care to think.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
But the price of fame is.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Ah, you said, You just said it, the price of fame?
You know I was mentioning earlier. How in the documentaries
that you're in you stick out. Everybody else still after
all these years, has their grudges or has their agenda,
and you just stick out as somebody that watched a tragedy,
failed to stop it and are heartbroken. That's why I
was always drawn to you. Let me ask you this,

(04:46):
do you think any of us are meant to be
worshiped in fame? I don't think it's a human thing
that anybody can ever get used to what was the
role of fame in her death?

Speaker 7 (05:00):
The course, it's just no pressure induced by the fame.
That is impossible for a young woman, young mother, young
wife to have to put up with her own success.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
And they were dependent on her success to feed themselves
and their future. Boy, if you were fascinated by Whitney
Houston's gift, life and tragedy, you want to get the
book Protecting Whitney by Dave Robertson.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Miss a Little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
We'll miss you. It's your morning show with Michael del Churno.