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Whitney Houston's real-life bodyguard on life with troubled star

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David Roberts was asked to be Whitney Houston's bodyguard in 1988 .

He spent six years protecting the late singer as she toured the world.

He believes he was the inspiration for 1992 film The Bodyguard starring Houston and Kevin Costner .

The 72-year-old has written a book about his time with the star who died aged 48 in 2012 .

Houston died in 2012 at just 48 of accidental drowning due to the effects of cocaine use and heart disease.

In 2015 , Bobbi Kristina Brown , the only daughter of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown , was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her home in Georgia and died six months later .

David said he had written his book to "dissipate the anger" he has carried since Houston 's death.

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