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Kevin Costner had one of the best ulogies at the funeral of the legend Whitney Houston but according to him his speech almost didn’t happen.

According to reports the actor wasn’t fond of speaking on his Bodyguard co-star and planned on staying mum but that all changed once he got a phone call from the well know singer and cousin to Whitney, Dionne Warwick.

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He says:

“I had consistently turned down doing sound bytes and going on news programs to talk about Whitney. And the pressure began to build on some level about, ‘Well, when are you going to say something, are you going to say something?’

And the truth is, I don’t really know how I feel at that moment about anything. Some people are very quick to get on and talk about it, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but that’s really not my way. And I actually didn’t realize that it seemed that a lot of people did want to hear from me on some level. Sometimes you don’t understand, and somebody has to say, ‘People really do want to hear it.’

And I was thinking, ‘Oh my goodness,’ and I still didn’t think any of the forums that I was seeing [like talk shows] were right, to be honest. There was one notion that maybe I would go on the Image Awards and present a film clip, which would be one or two lines and here’s the clip, and she meant a lot more to me than that. When I got a call from Dionne Warwick, that’s when I said I would come. And I’m not saying that was the right orum. It was one the where, I chose to support Dionne at that moment.”

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We are glad Costner had a change of heart. His words at the funeral were truly beautiful and ones that needed to be heard. What a classy man!

SOURCE: Perez Hilton