Kevin Costner: “I Know How Lucky I Am”

Academy Award winner Kevin Costner has been  fairly private with his personal life and feelings, however, the 57-year old recently opened up to Parade.com about his family and relationship with the late Whitney Houston.

The actor - who is married to handbag designer Christine Baumgartner - felt a need to share his feelings about his Bodyguard co-star when she died earlier this year.   “It’s unusual to watch the world talking about someone that you have a fairly unique relationship with,” the Tin Cup star shared. “It’s almost surreal. This little drumbeat began: You need to say something.”

On Costner’s eulogy to Houston:  “I started [speaking] with the idea that sometimes what you think life will be it won’t be at all, and about what was real between Whitney and me, what we talked about—being in church when we were little, both getting in trouble, about our not wanting to be preachers. … I wanted to impart a bit of the Whitney that I knew, and maybe people could think about her in a different way.”

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