Cissy Houston, 80, issued a statement to Entertainment Tonight, slamming the new movie about her late daughter.
“Lifetime has chosen to go ahead with the movie about Whitney in spite of my family’s objections. No one connected with this move knew Whitney or anything about her relationship with Bobby,” she said.
“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.”
The new movie features Yaya DaCosta as Whitney and is directed by Angela Bassett.
Whitney Houston died in 2012 at 48-years-old.
