A Mother’s (Bigoted) Pain

There’s always a right way and a wrong way to answer a touchy question.

When it comes to Cissy Houston, this was definitely the wrong way.

Her interview on Oprah’s Last Chapter aired last night and of course, the question of Whitney’s well-known drug use was brought up, which her brother copped to leading her to in her early days.

But it was the question regarding rumors of her daughter’s sexuality that really made everyone feel a bit uncomfortable as they viewed it.

For many years, it was whispered loudly that Whitney and her ex-assistant, Robyn Crawford were in a same sex relationship; one that was officially silenced when she married bad boy singer, Bobby Brown.

The gospel singer (who actually calls a daughter a “heifer” in her new book, Remembering Whitney — and she means it as “being bossy”, although it’s still not a good look) became stern and almost heartless in her answering of those particular questions.

“Would it have bothered you if your daughter, Whitney was gay”, Oprah asks.

“Absolutely”, Cissy replies a little too quickly.

Even Oprah, who has obviously been at interviewing people from a long time, is thrown back at that.

“You would not have liked that”, she questions again, almost trying to get her to realize how bigoted she’s coming across.

“Not at all”, she shoots back.

It gets a lot more uncomfortable from there — although in her defense, she didn’t like Whitney marrying Bobby, either.

You can check out the clip after the jump. Interesting woman, she is.

Via Tabloid Prodigy