Osama bin Laden Reportedly planned to kidnap Whitney Houston

Kevin Macdonald’s new documentary Whitney contains some major revelations about the late singer’s life and career, from her pre-fame romance with Robyn Crawford to charges of childhood sexual abuse committed against her by a first cousin, Dee Dee Warwick. Here’s another story you may not have been aware of: In the early ’90s, Houston was at the center of a kidnapping scheme dreamed up by none other than Osama bin Laden. Macdonald disclosed that wild story — one that he cut from the finished film — in a recent interview with Yahoo Entertainment. (Watch our video below.)