Was Teresa Graves Whitney Houston's REAL mom? 1st Black woman to lead a network drama! 

Whitney and Dionne W have similar vocal characteristics, so that wouldn't make sense. Also, Diahann Carroll starred in "Julia" 1968 a series that ran for 3 years on ABC and at one point it was a top 10 show. Yeah, it was a sitcom...but you probably should give her props too. P.S Love your content, great channel. Love Ms Falana!

Can you do a story on Branden Howard please I believe he's mj son. Miki lived with the Jacksons back in the 80s. He sang dances and speaks just like Mj, And Cory Friedman did a DNA test, and it said results were 99.9

I've always thought that there was a strong resemblance between the two of them.

@@youart9797 Feb. 25, 2023 I never heard similar characteristics between Whitney and Dionne. People just said that they were cousins. Whitney looks more like Teresa Graves than sound like Dionne.

I just want to say this is one of the most Beautiful Women I ever seen 😍 🥰

Same here

YES 👍!!

Facts

Agreed

Yes yes yes

Same thoughts here. I wondered where Whitney got her looks from because there was no resemblance with CiCi and John. But Teresa Graves? Whitney looks exactly like her!

Even the voice

Uh, her mother's name is SISSY NOT CICI!!

And they sing the same!!

I was thinking the Same thing..

If it were true it would be sad. But it's not true. Cissy Houston is Whitney's mother.

​​@@lettiegrant9447nope. Theresa had an affair with cissy's husband when she was a minor, which is whitneys dad she got pregnant..cissy took in whitney. Theresa is whitneys mom.

@@lettiegrant9447 exactly.

@@lettiegrant9447 Cissy will always be Whitney’s mother no matter what.

It makes since

Exactly because that’s her mammy

@@robelg9648 Show is her mammy! You funny 🤣🤣🤣

Whitney looks EXACTLY like her great grandmother

Kelly Rowland

And that’s saying a lot Whitney is one off

You are right on the money.

Exactly

out of curiosity, how old are you now

You were lucky to have known her…. Can you tell me any stories about her… I always knew she was a sweetheart

She was my family. THIS STORY IS A LIE. Tee was 15 when CISSY had Whitney. Tee bever had any children. Whitney was asked to do a Get Christie Love movie because of her resemblance but it never happened. We are speaking with lawyers. This is totally 125% fabricated and shameful. Don't be gullible.

@@arjanadesign8989well damn

@@arjanadesign8989lol you can’t sue no one if they say allegedly.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 That was funny as hell.

In your mind indeed

That’s GloRilla mama!

Yall is something else yall know damn well cissy houston is the mom to whitney houston how dare yall say she isn't haven't you heard everybody has a twin and teresa graves is whitney twin that's all there is to it people a look alike but I guess if the truth say look at whitney houston great grandmother susan drinkard picture you will still say whitney related to teresa graves wow come on people the proof is in the photos look at the photos of whitney houston kinfolks

Even her voice 😱😱😱I just noticed something else Teresa's hands, @10:46 just like Whitneys.

Look how they move their lips

do you believe she is whitney mom ?

It's that light lyric soprano voice for me. Thats whitney momma

Whitney never danced she always just stand around

@rasberrybombay2 Girl bye👋🏽 I’ve seen her dancing before she wasn’t just a singer she was an actor as well so stop hating 🤷🏽‍♀️

@@rasberrybombay2Whitney did dance sometimes

Yesssssss

I believe it too.

I said the same when I saw Whitney sing for the first time me. I thought about her role in Get Christie Love❤

The voice is not the same. You ever hear Teresa Graves sing? She sang on the Ed Sullivan show. And she sounds absolutely nothing like Whitney. They are not mother and daughter.

Most definitely...I cannot believe how much Whitney resembles her in every way!

@@margomckaine78 y’all don’t even know what Whitney voice fully sounds like she had a big range and y’all are used to what you see the woman was super talented but y’all do not know her personally

🤍🤍🤍

Exactly TRUE 🎉 and this is NO coincidence Cissy Houston May take this truth to her grave as she raised Whitney as her own daughter. Whitney Houston wore a very distinctive wedding head dress when she wed Bobby brown that I felt was a very different choice for a wedding outfit but she looked stunning in it just like her REAL mother did when she wore that same head dress .. I think Whitney knew the truth but did not come out with it to the public

I feel the same way. I watch Cissy and Whitney sing on a Merv Griffin special back in 1984 recently - they just didn't seem like they were related to me. No resemblance.

That is not Teresa's daughter 😂😂😂 come on stop

U r right the greatest love of all video it shows. Cissy was a stage mom

If Cissy was not Whitney’s mom, it was definitely Dionne Warwick. Whitney looked more like Dionne than Cissy.

@@nikk5002 I always heard the rumours about Dionne being Whitney’s real mother. This is my first time hearing about Teresa being Whitney’s real mother.

Just wondering if it's true why did cissy adopt Whitney 🤔 is it because she had all boys 👦 before W came along? Did she really want a daughter for her music 🎶 legacy to live on?

I Believe it too!

Very uncanny 🙍🏿‍♀️🙍🏿‍♀️

You people sound so ridiculous. Whitney and Theresa are not the only black women that you will see who's small and pretty with small faces. So now would they all be Whitney's mother?

I agree. It has to be

Right! It’s definitely possible

A child having a child. Her life must’ve been so sad. 😞

I believe she is her mother too. They look so much alike!!!

Perhaps she gave her to Cissy, who she knew from the music industry circles, to raise, in order to not have any challenges, of being a single mother, or so on, during her career 👀

😂😂😂😂

​@vanvarner7679 stop it. That is not her mother.

​@vanvarner7679 stop it. That is not her mother.

I agree

I know right?!?!!!!!

They SOUND ALIKE TOO! 😮😮😢

They really do!

I definitely see some resemble between her& Whitney Houston but I don't think she is her daughter

I didn’t know her but I always thought she was a sweetheart with a great personality . I know she married a guy named William reddick and divorced in 1983. Was wondering if you could tell me anything more about her. She should have a book written about her life, just amazing and beautiful in every way

A generational curse definitely needs to be broken for sure

​@@theritual23 Why who? Whitney & Bobbi are gone.

This is crazy because I’ve always thought cissy looked nothing like Whitney.

​@@theritual23 well its broke now...there are none left hahah

@@jenster29 There’s more than these women in their entire family. We don’t realize how deep generational curses run.

I can believe that.

I agree with your Great Grandmother. Cissy Houston did not appear to have a maternal connection to Whitney AT ALL. And after listening to Leolah Brown’s VERY disturbing video that I just heard………. I am convinced that she could not possibly be Whitney’s Mother.

​@@sayawills8518 What video?

Tey look and sound alike

@@CeliniacForLife it’s “Leolah Brown the absolute truth”

There is no racism. That ugliness was created for political and propaganda purposes. Look at Diana Ross, Dianne Carroll, Iman, and other black celebrity women.

@@itstheweather5859 true but even they didn’t have the status of Marilyn Monroe. And growing up, I don’t recall reading a whole lot about the women you mentioned. There may have been beauty regimen articles about Iman but she was a model. Even she started a Black Girls Coalition because black models were paid less than white models.

That is Whitney Houston Mother STOP LYING

@@tamaramadison7563 I never addressed the rumor. Perhaps, you are commenting on the wrong post.

Racism is very ugly indeed & it appears that it will never go away.

Ell yeah.. she acts and looks just like Whitney Houston... Wow

If that’s the case Donna Summer is Kelly Rowland’s real mother and Nicki Minaj is Chaka Khan’s secret daughter!!😂😂😂😂😂

@@SaintMTi not the same

@@clifton299 Very much the same. Kelly looks more like Donna than Teresa looks like Whitney.

Yup that's what i think too! And isn't it Ironic they wore the same style hat on their wedding day!🤔

I know right, it’s the 70s and 90s black women for me 😭😍

I agree!

​@@KarineAlourde The 90s as well

@@KarineAlourde I agree. Black women carried themselves so well. Their physical beauty would turn heads. They didn’t have to do attention getting stunts or be half nude. They had powerful feminine auras. Being able to turn heads while fully clothed is the true power.

I agree BW between the 70s to early 2000s beauty was unmatched. BW nowdays just destroy and demolish their beauty.

Yes, that is very telling. That no one can tell you any different. Even if we came up with public records and birth certificates, you would still believe that Teresa Graves is Whitney Houston's mother.

Yes!!!!

I believe this is her Mom

Whitney sounds just like Cissy. You people are delusional

No.

This is a fucking lie.

Yea Whitney looked just like her

Maybe Whitney is the clone of Teresa

Exactly & their both beautiful.

They are not true

Fact. I don’t see the resemblance in either of her Parents, it’s weird! But this lady, 💯 % lol.

Bingo!!! Just like Nippy

Whitney looks like her grandmother, simple as that

​@@l.d.9164she looks alot like her father.

And I didn't expect their singing to be so similar that was very shocking

So true. So many details faked. She could have been older when she got pregnant.They lie about age all the time.

Right!

Like all those years Diana Ross and Barry Gordy hid the truth from their LOVE CHILD Rhonda 🤔🤦🏾😓...my conspiracy theory I still think Jennifer Hudson is Aretha Franklin daughter 🤣🤣🤣🤫

Please😂

Yes the voice is the give away

No 👎🏾 Whitney looks like her maternal grandmother and her father plus his mom

​@@michelemcmillan904 a big one 😃

Definitely her mother. Whitney doesn't look enough like her father for me to know he was her father, except by being informed that he is. Without a doubt, she looks just like this woman, her mannerisms, everything. Genetics are strong and aren't just limited to looks, and Whitney had no doubt inherited this woman's genes.

I'm old enough to remember Teresa Graves. I used to be a huge fan of her and her show "Get Christy Love". But the info about her possibly being Whitney's mom certainly give us something to think about. I guess the question would be did Teresa and Whitney's father, John know eachother? If so, then it's quite possibly another one of Entertainment's biggest secret. There's no denying that Whitney and Teresa look alike and share many similar traits and mannerisms.

Agreeeee. It's beyond doppelganger!

Wait a minute now her facial impressions come on

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She did look like dad though !!! She was her father’s twin and she also like Dionne.

@@Thegazelle1000 I always thought she was Dionne but no she carbon copy of this women.

Just wondering if it's true why did cissy adopt Whitney 🤔 is it because she had all boys 👦 before W came along? Did she really want a daughter for her music 🎶 legacy to live on?

@@PR7-82 Because she knew the business side how to make Whitney a star perhaps. If that's not her daughter then it wouldn't be her legacy it would legacy of Ms Graves

@@PR7-82 Actually sounds like the Hollywood stuff they do all makes sense

I always thought the same thing Whitney looked nothing like Cissy.

For sure. I agree

​@@mynameispeaches I always thought it that Whitney Houston looked just like her daddy, same eys, eyebrows, and nose. I wonder if Teresa Graves was John Houston's daughter, Whitney Houston's secret sister?!🧐 Just sayin.

Excuse me. I always thought that...... Same eyes,......

My thoughts exactly. Never thought or heard a soul who sounded like Whitney Houston untill hearing the voice of Teresa Graves, much less they look so so so alike. Side face profile is a copy, smile, everything. It makes perfect sense and I'm sure Whitney knew. People look down upon drugs addicts before they know their story, we all have a story one way or another but not all turn to drugs and self sabotage. If there was ever a reason or trigger for Whitney to be embroiled in substance abuse it would be the lack of self esteem and love she felt as a child, the seeming rejection/removal of her real mother and the lack of identity she felt in the family she was forced to be part of. That would haunt anyone. I know it's an assumption but it's definitely a good one. RIEP TO THEM BOTH💫⬆️💫

Girl, that is not her mother. Lol

​@@shonda79ableGet a brain and a set of eyes too.

Hello DeAnna, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??

Cissy and whitneys voices sounded the same, the tone/timbre

I think so too!! We’ve seen what cici’s biological children (sons) look like, they fugly! 😆

What I find so disturbing is all the stars who where sleeping with children, and nobody was doing any thing about it. I was mortified when I watched the life story of Athrea Franklin and found out she had two babies before the age of 14, and her father impregnated a 13 year old. Pricilla Presley was 14 when she started dating Elvis and he was 11 years older than her. There are too many Hollywood stories of adults sleeping with and impregnating children.

@@nessay720 truly disgusting

@@nessay720 No one did anything because what could they have done? Times were different back then. Believe it is still happening today

@@VeryKinkyCurlyep

@@VeryKinkyCurl They could of brought it to public knowledge instead of hiding it. You can’t curb bad behavior unless you expose it.

Agree

That's because you're probably a gen-xer and you are not interested in the history of your people that's why you haven't heard that's the trouble young black people now they don't pay attention to the elders dammit the elders have to give you their knowledge before they passed on just like it was given to them and you younger generation you don't f****** listen. I got no sympathy whatever knowledge I got will leave with me. I cannot pass it on because I'm not going to. If you seen that Captain America movie shield was arguing about how can they re duplicate the Captain America formula because the doctor got shot by the Nazi agent the doctor never kept nothing on paper it was all in his head Eddie never work nothing down on a chalkboard the secret soldier formula died with him same thing applies here you young people don't listen

@@user-Ados-amerika ​ I don't know what your problem REALLY is in life. Nor do I care. What I commented is not up for debate. You don't know anything about me or my interests. And I'm not going to confirm, deny, or prove anything to you about it. There are a lot of people throughout history that no ONE person knows EVERY one of. Take that BITTERNESS elsewhere. Or don't. Ok? Ok. Either way, go have the day you deserve.

This is crazy no doubt she looks like her

Yes that's what I see

Agreed! There were times when I thought that she WAS Whitney! The resemblance is SO striking - & her mannerisms...WOW!

I always believed she is Whitney's mother adopted by Cissy.

You can believe what you want you're mixed up and confused that's cult, I've listened to the former Jehovah witnesses your lost.

You’re lucky to have met her, can you tell me anything else about, I could tell she was beautiful inside and outher

Because she would have 14 when she got pregnant and 15 when she had her.

She had her at 14. He was 40 years old. He would have gone to jail + he held her career in his hands

She would have had to birthed Whitney at 13 or 14. Whitney would be 60 this year!! You don't have to look like your parents. Whitney,looks like her dad. Cissy is her mom!!! That's who she got her voice from and everything she knows. You had nothing else to post and posted this dumb s***

Was it mentioned in this doc of Graves giving birth in 63?

@@springrain9438 I’ll park my comment here cause I want to know too

Does Whitney HAVE to look like her mother? If so, why? Lots of daughters look like their fathers. Or their grandmothers.

@@margomckaine78 hit it on the nail they didn’t even search for her great grandmother that’s who she looks like unless they can find the connection to the great grandmother that still Cissy child her child looks like her grandmother

I believe teresa graves is Whitney Houston birth mom. The more i look at her the more i see Whitney,

​​@@margomckaine78Whitney don't look like any of her brothers or her mom. I see john a little bit but it's there that's my opinion

@@rochelhernandez8573 Erik Estrada and Bruno Mars look alike. Erik Estrada could be Bruno Mars' father they look so much alike. But they aren't. Google photos of Estrada and Mars and see how much alike they look. Everybody has a doppleganger. That doesn't mean they are parent and child.

@@patricialong2803yes Whitney was identical to her that’s when I first saw her in that movie and couldn’t believe the resemblance but cissy is Whitney’s mom.

I have never believed that Cissy Houston was Whitney’s Mother.

Cissy is Whitney's mother she's just not as pretty as whitney. Whitney had a good looking daddy and that's where she got her good looks from.

DNA tests can compare WH's with TG's, CH's and DW's, to prove maternity.

@@sayawills8518 same, something just didn’t sit right with me about it

Whitney Houston did not have a light skin tone if you look at some of her very early pics. I was quite surprised at how dark she was.

Who cares what skin tone she had. She was famous for her singing not her skin tone.

@@motophone8794 Let go of skin tones, it has nothing to do with talent.

@@mcmc1103 tell that to May May!

@@lettiegrant9447 …it does matter when they’re doing films about our icons. We run the range in beautiful shades of beige, brown, chestnut as well as hair and eye coloring. I’ve been in and around Black Americans all my life and l love the wide range of physical looks we have. Whitney was a beautiful lightskin version of the beautiful darker Teresa. There’s nothing wrong with stating a visual fact! 😳

I have heard everybody has a Twin 😀

Could also be that Whitney admired Theresa Graves very much and somewhat practiced her Hollywood public mannerisms. Just a thought.😊