I wanna dance with somebody. One moment in time. I will always love you…
Yeah. That voice. Those songs. That girl. The girl I grew up listening to, the one that bookmarked first kisses and high school dances and sleepovers and and and… yeah. Beautiful voice and face and could’ve had a beautiful life.
Addiction said this wouldn’t be so.
A once sweet career ended too quickly with a marriage gone sour and a fall from grace. Suspicion of drug use confirmed on the Oprah Winfrey show in 2009. I’ll let you read the Huffington Post article yourself and see what you think.
Whitney Houston took drugs, including cocaine and marijuana, with ex-husband Bobby Brown, who was emotionally abusive during their marriage and at one point spit on her, the singer said during an interview that aired Monday on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
“I had so much money and so much access to what I wanted,” Houston told Winfrey. “I didn’t think about the singing part anymore. I was looking for my young womanhood.”
After a long absence from music, Houston is staging a career comeback with a new album “I Look to You” released last month and a two-part appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Houston is one of the best-selling artists of all time, but her career stalled as she grappled with drug problems and a troubled marriage to Brown.
The couple married in 1992 and were divorced in 2007. During their marriage, Brown was arrested on drug and alcohol charges, and Houston twice entered drug rehabilitation programs. She has custody of their teenage daughter.
One doesn’t qualify for drug treatment by mistake. And of course physical abuse is never to be discounted (being a survivor of DV my damn self). But denial and addiction go hand in hand in hand to mouth to overdose to death.
No one knows yet as to the cause of death. But once an addict always an addict. WE… know this.
All the money in the world can’t keep you clean. Nor can all the talent. Addiction kills. Whether directly or indirectly. Rest in Peace Whitney.
“The biggest devil is me. I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.” Whitney Houston
It’s devastating that a woman who made such an impact in many women’s (and men’s) lives has passed away. From hearing my mom playing her records, singing “Greatest Love of All” to seeing her in Waiting To Exhale, she exuded grace, class and beauty. It’s tragic where her life took a turn and I sincerely hoped with her last album and her divorce from Bobby Brown that she might regain her inner grace again.
Now we’ll never know what she could have done. RIP Whitney Houston.
I am so saddened by the death of Whitney. It makes me look at my addiction and I am reminded that it kicks A$$ daily. I so hoped Whitney would find peace in this life. That is what recovery brings me. Whitney’s death reminds me of how much of a struggle recovery can be and the reality that I only have today. But for the Grace of god, there I go. RIP Whitney