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In early 2012, Whitney Houston was trying to green her withered laurels. The actress and singer had just participated in a remake of the movie Sparkleand had received an offer to be a judge on the musical reality show The X Factor. Unfortunately, on February 12 She was found dead in the bathtub of her room at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.where he was to make an appearance at a party held on the eve of the Grammy Awards ceremony.
Just a few hours before the discovery, the 48-year-old artist suffered a cardiac arrest. The autopsy performed on his body would reveal that his death was caused by accidental drowning, and that the cocaine he had been consuming and the cardiovascular disorder he suffered from influenced the sad outcome. His bodyguard and agent, Ray Watsonwas the person who found her lifeless submerged in that bathtub full of hot water. “I saw Whitney in the bathtub and I panicked”recently confessed in an interview granted to The Sun. “I couldn’t tell if she was dead or alive. I pulled her out of the water and tried to revive her. So it was all crazy. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me. I’ll never forget it.”
Whitney Houston in a remake of the movie ‘Sparkle’.
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Traces of cocaine and marijuana were found on Houston’s body, in addition to medications such as alprazolam (anxiolytic) and diphenhydramine (antihistamine). No one was too surprised by it. After all, the artist’s drug problems were public and notorious. “Sometimes when I thought she was high, I’d guess from her looks. I just watched her to see if she was okay, I watched her more closely. But I never saw her do drugs, I never talked to her about drugs, and she never got high in front of me.” , out of respect. We never talked about it and I let it go, “said Watson himself.
Whitney Houston’s death was the fitting culmination of a career full of ups and downs. The artist was born in 1963 into a family of musicians, he began to sing in his church choir, and made his first steps as a model while still a teenager. In 1983, she was discovered by an Arista talent scout who saw her performing with her mother (soul and gospel singer Cissy Houston), and that label, with which she released her first album a couple of years later, would help her establish herself as the great diva of soul.
The American broke more records in the music industry than any other singer in history. He had a big voice and he sold records like churros. Not surprisingly, only the first one he launched managed to ship thirteen million copies. But everything started to go wrong for her after she starred The bodyguard (1992)—recorded a version of the song for the soundtrack I will always love youwritten by Dolly Parton, which would become the best-selling single in history by a female singer—.
The artist with Ray J, one of the men in her life.
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In July of that same year, Houston married Bobby Browna best-selling singer who responded to the stereotype of bad boy and he had a reputation for being a flirt (he had already flirted with Janet Jackson and Madonna). rolling The bodyguardthe artist (who was already addicted to soft drugs at that time) suffered an abortion. “It was very painful emotionally and physically,” he later confessed. “It’s something that I would have liked to deal with on my own, but they didn’t give me the opportunity. I was back on set the next day. And that’s it. But I had Bobbi Kristina the next year and I feel blessed.”
Brown’s media fame ended up waning (it seems that he was unable to accept his new status as ‘husband of’) and Houston, who became a global star thanks to The bodyguardbegan to deal with the pressure and expectations, and he entered a harmful spiral of drugs, violence and erratic behavior. In 2000, she was arrested for possession of marijuana and in 2001, during a tribute concert to Michael Jackson, his skeletal appearance became the talk of the day. During an interview to promote his album Just Whitney (2002), which was a commercial failure, Houston told a journalist that he had used cocaine, heroin, pills and marijuana, but never crack: “I make too much money to use crack. We don’t use that. Crack sucks.” “.
In 2003, after denying in numerous interviews that she was regularly mistreated by her husband (who was occasionally arrested for drug possession), the other queen of the rythm and blues called the police one day after Brown hit her in the face after a heated argument. Still, she refused to press charges and he was never convicted. Both the drugs and the toxic relationship that she had with Brown wreaked havoc on Houston’s life, that in 2005 she finally consented to go to a rehabilitation center and, in 2007, she divorced her husband.
The New Jersey woman longed to retire but, at the same time, needed a source of income, so in 2009, after a seven-year absence, she was forced to release an album and embarked on a world tour (which ended up being a disaster and received merciless criticism for the deterioration of his voice). When Oprah Winfrey interviewed her at the time, Houston spoke openly about the control her ex had had over her for years (“He was my drug, I didn’t do anything without him”) and the time when drugs dominated their lives. In May 2011, she voluntarily underwent another period of rehabilitation, in a new attempt to regain control of her life and her career.
With her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown.
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As usually happens in these cases, media sensationalism prevailed until the end, and few ever bothered to try to understand the person behind the fictional character created by him show business. The documentary Whitney revealed in 2018 that Houston had a complicated relationship with her parents since she was young, who always depended on her financially and, therefore, encouraged her to work nonstop (despite the fact that, at many times, what the poor woman really needed was to go to a rehabilitation center). She also uncovered that Houston was a victim of abuse during his childhood (both her brothers and she were subjected to sexual abuse by her aunt Dee Dee Warwick), and that she lived a complicated relationship with her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, whom she loved deeply but ended up dragging into a stormy relationship with her addictions. In fact, the only daughter of the marriage of Houston and Brown was found unconscious in the bathtub of her home in early 2015 and, after spending six months hospitalized and in a coma, He passed away when he was just 22 years old.
In another documentary, released in 2017 and entitled Whitney: Can I Be Meit was reported that Houston had had a brief romantic relationship with her manager and best friend, Robyn Crawford (whom she met at a community center in East Orange, New Jersey, when they were both teenagers), and that suppressing her sexual desire for other women (due to the prevailing homophobia in society) had been one of the reasons that pushed her to use drugs. “Our friendship was intimate at all levels”Robyn later wrote in her memoirs. “We never talked about labels like lesbian or gay. We just lived our lives, and I hoped it could go on like that forever.”
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