Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “The Preacher’s Wife”
Two Different Lives
Though looking at this movie, you’d never suspect this; but in that epic 2009 interview with Oprah, Whitney admitted that while she was filming The Preacher’s Wife, singing gospel songs and playing a minister’s wife, she was getting high almost everyday. And audiences weren’t the only ones Whitney was able to fool. Later, after her death, director Penny Marshall came forward and said that while she and Whitney were on set together, she never had any inclination that she was using.