Kevin Costner Opens Up About Whitney Houston’s Drug Addiction, Was Asked ‘To Write Letters’ To Help
April 11 2012, Published 9:00 a.m. ET
While they hadn’t been close since steaming up the big screen in The Bodyguard in 1992, Kevin Costner still loyally acted as pallbearer at his former co-star Whitney Houston’s funeral in February, and now the actor is opening up about what he knew -- and didn’t know – about her battle with drugs and how he’d tried to help.
While on Anderson Cooper’s talk show to chat about his upcoming miniseries, Hatfields & McCoys, Costner revealed how he didn’t know that the diva was battling a drug addiction while they were filming the modern classic love story.
“A couple of times there were some people that really loved Whitney and a couple times in the last seven or eight years they asked me if I would I write her a letter,” he told Cooper.
“It’s so odd. I have this level of celebrity and fame -- international or national, whatever you want to refer to it -- but it’s a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life,” he explained.
“You think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous?' What is this some weird club that we're in?’”
“So when someone said, ‘Would you write someone a letter to someone who you know is having trouble?’ I did, there were two occasions.”
The gorgeous movie star couple will always be joined in fans’ eyes, but in real life the Dances With Wolves star said: “I elected to let Whitney have her life after The Bodyguard, she would always be close to me, she would always be someone I appreciated.
“I saw pretty much what everyone else saw. But when someone asked me to write a letter I did, I don't know if those letters were ever read.”