HAUNTED BY TRAGIC TALE

If you’re a Whitney Houston fan make sure you get to see Can I Be Me, a feature-length film documenting the meteoric rise and tragic fall of the talented superstar.

Introduced to drugs by her brothers well before that unmatchable voice catapulted her to worldwide fame and adoration, it was her inability to deal with her fame and her addictions – to cocaine, to Bobby Brown, and the loss of her loyal confidante and companion Robyn Crawford with whom, it’s intimated, she had a lesbian relationship – that saw her off in the end.

Nick Broomfield made the film using previously unseen behind-the-scenes footage and admitted he “couldn’t sleep for months on end” as Whitney “came to occupy my subconscious”.

He said he simply “fell in love with her”. His film, he says, portrays the disconnect between “the story of a gorgeous young girl, a huge talent, who sang these amazing songs” and the star who became “a diva, a drug addict and then died”.

You’ll be left feeling sad, angry and wishing someone had saved her. I know I did.