Yaya DaCosta, best known for being a contestant on America’s Next Top Model, has been cast in the upcoming movie about the life of Whitney Houston.

Whitney Houston is one of the most iconic vocalists of all time and enjoyed several chart toppers in the 1980s and 1990s.  A powerful vocalist, Houston saw success in music and film appearing in movies like The Preachers Wife and Waiting to Exhale.  The singer’s public image took a hit in the early 2000s as Houston struggled with substance abuse and a volatile relationship with her then husband Bobby Brown.

In February 2012, amidst talk of a comeback and on the verge of the release of her new film Sparkle, Whitney Houston was found drowned in her bathtub with cocaine in her system.

The upcoming Lifetime made for TV biopic aims to follow Whitney Houston’s and Bobby Brown’s relationship throughout their struggles, which most fans assume will chronicle their drug use.

Angela Bassett from American Horror Story is directing the film, while Shem Bitterman, known for his writing of 2009’s The Job, writes the screenplay.

Whitney Houston’s surviving family members, however, are not happy. They are even trying to block its production with legal action. Pat Houston is rumored to have claimed that “Whitney is certainly worthy of more than a television movie,” according to TMZ. Evidently, Whitney Houston’s family thinks the late Houston was too big of a star to be in a made for TV movie.

Even Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown, Houston’s surviving daughter, is unhappy. She wants to play her mother in the film and is upset that someone else was cast in the movie.