Lifetime’s biopic starring “America’s Next Top Model” alum Yaya DaCosta has Whitney Houston‘s mother up in arms.
The biopic centers around Houston’s legendary yet controversial marriage with Bobby Brown, with whom she had daughter Bobbi Kristina.
Cissy Houston, Whitney’s mom, told ETOnline.com:
“Lifetime has chosen to go ahead with the movie about Whitney in spite of my family’s objections. No one connected with this movie knew Whitney or anything about her relationship with Bobby. In the two years since Whitney’s death, many people have stepped forward to speak about their close relationship with her. I find it difficult to believe people who knew and supposedly loved her would participate in a movie about her done by folks who didn’t know her. We are exhausted by the continuing misinformation and comments offered by people who did not know her. Please, please let her rest.”
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Whitney Houston will premiere in early 2015, three years after her tragic death. Oscar nominee Angela Bassett, who co-starred along with Whitney in Waiting to Exhale, is directing the film. Bassett had to have known Houston in some regard if they made a movie together.