Cannes 2018: Documentary reveals Whitney Houston was sexually abused by Singer Dee Dee Warwick

The documentary features interviews with many of Houston’s relatives and close acquaintances, two people made allegations against Warwick.

Garland agreed to appear on camera with his story. “He’s saying I was abused by this person and told me, ‘I think she abused Whitney,'” Macdonald said. “Pat Houston [Gary’s wife], who’s here, told me that, yeah, Whitney had told her this but not given any details.”

Macdonald tried to reach out to Houston's family initially about the possibility that she had been abused after watching old footage of the late singer.

“There was something about her discomfort in her own skin, something about the way she presents or hides herself, her lack of overt sexuality,” Macdonald told the publication. “She’s this beautiful woman but she’s very closed in her demeanor.”

He added, “I’d been watching her for several months and saying to editors, ‘There’s something about her that reminds me of something.'”

“That led somebody to tell me, ‘Whitney told me she was abused,’ but they wouldn’t go on camera,” Macdonald said.

“He claims not to know,” he told Indiewire. “I wouldn’t be surprised if [Houston] didn’t tell him. When you hear Mary Jones talking about it at the end, the shame that Whitney had about it, the fact that she couldn’t take to her own mother about it… I can’t imagine she would have gone there, but this is all supposition.”

Whitney will hit the theaters on July 6.

Also Read: 'Somebody's Herrrrrrre!' Chrissy Teigen and John Legend welcomes baby boy