Houston, she had a problem.
Rosie O'Donnell is speaking out about the tortured relationship songstress Whitney Houston had with her sexuality.
"Whitney was troubled by, I think, the gay part of her life and didn't want it exposed," O'Donnell said of the late music icon's rumored same-sex orientation.
In a wide-ranging discussion on the "Hot Takes & Deep Dives" podcast Monday, O'Donnell, 59, claimed the six-time Grammy Award-winning powerhouse was "conflicted" by her conservative cultural values and much-storied bisexuality.
"It's hard in black culture to accept gayness. It's culturally more difficult, I think," the openly gay actress said of Houston — who died in a drug-related accidental drowning at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in February 2012. She was 48.
"And the church … the Baptist Church weighed heavily on her," O'Donnell added, noting the rigid dichotomy between religion and homosexuality. "Growing up in the church and singing gospel, [for Houston] I think that there was a lot of conflict about that."
O'Donnell recalled meeting the "I Will Always Love You" chanteuse and her purported girlfriend, Robyn Crawford, at a party in New York.
She said that at the time, it was understood that Crawford, who was couched as Houston's childhood friend and personal assistant, was actually the megastar's "partner."
Crawford, 60, confirmed long-standing rumors of her hush-hush romance with the "Saving All My Love for You" singer in her 2019 memoir "A Song for You: My Life With Whitney Houston."
O'Donnell will star in Season 2 of Showtime's "The L Word: Generation Q," set to air later this year.
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