Far from the public eye, Kevin Costner and his The bodyguard The co -star Whitney Houston shared a close bond, so at the funeral of the latter, the Yellowstone Star issued her regrets of disappointing her.
“I disappointed it. I should have been there, and it wasn’t,” he said in a public statement. “And now for the rest of my life, I will have to live with that pain. I saved it then; I should have saved it now.”
“She was my only true love. I still have ‘I will always love you’ as my calling tone, and I tell him an honor badge every time they make fun of it,” added the actor.
His love for the late actress was on display when she took the stage and gave her a praise in front of the mourners.
“You weren’t just beautiful, you were as beautiful as a woman could be. And people don’t like you, Whitney, they loved you,” said academy’s winning star when Whitney died in 2012.
He continued: “I was your symbolic bodyguard once, not long ago, and now you had been too soon, leaving us with memories of a girl who bravely put in front of this church, in front of those who loved you first, in front of those who loved you better and loved you more time.”
Similarly, Kevin, in an interview about the Sillon expert Podcast said he made a promise to Whitney to protect her when she made her debut as an actor.
“I started to guide her,” he shared in 2024. “And I wasn’t trying to usurp my director [Mick Jackson]But I had promised him, not for *****. He had promised Whitney that it would be good at that. That was my promise to her: she will always love me in the song. “
Whitney, who died from accidental drowning, also had heart disease and drug use as contributing factors. She was 48 years old.
