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Whitney Houston biopic won't 'drag her life through the muck'

The director of an upcoming Whitney Houston biopic has insisted that the film will portray the singer's life with respect.

Angela Bassett is due to direct the movie for TV's Lifetime and she told Entertainment Weekly that it won't deal with some negative issues, such as Houston's death in 2012.

She said: "That's one of the things I do appreciate about the story at least, with this first story about her. We're not interested in dragging her life again through, you know, the muck. 

"She had to play out her choices, and the consequences of them, in a very hot, glaring spotlight, but we're not interested in dragging that through again."

Houston died in a hotel room in Beverley Hills aged 48 after accidentally drowning in a bathtub.

Heart disease and cocaine were listed by the coroner as contributing factors.

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