Away from the public eye, Kevin Costner and his The bodyguard Co -Star Whitney Houston shared a close tape, then at the latter funeral Yellowstone The star sent his regret to let her down.
“I let her down. I should have been there, and I wasn’t,” he said in a public statement. “And now for the rest of my life, I have to live with that pain. I saved her then; I should have saved her now.”
“She was my one true love. I still have” I will always love you “as my ringtone, and I count it an honorary emblem every time I get mocked for it,” the actor added.
His love for the late actress was on a clear screen when he went to the stage and gave an eulogy to her in front of the grieving.
“You weren’t just beautiful-you were as beautiful as a woman could be. And people didn’t just like you, whitney-they loved you,” said the academic winning star when Whitney died in 2012.
He continued, “I was your previous bodyguard once, not so long ago, and now you are gone prematurely, leaving us with memories of a little girl who stepped bravely in front of this church, in front of those who loved you first, in front of those who loved you best and loved you the longest.”
Similar Kevin, in an interview about Armchair expert Podcast, said he made a promise to Whitney to protect her when she debuted in acting.
“I started guiding her,” he shared in 2024. “And I didn’t try to use my instructor [Mick Jackson]But I had given her a promise not to ****** him. I had promised Whitney that she would be good at it. It was my promise to her: She will always love me in the song. “
Whitney, who died of accidental drowning, also had heart disease and drug use as contributing factors. She was 48.
