Whitney Houston died in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel suite in 2012. On August 9th were the exceptional singer 60 year old become. Some dramas in her life only came to light after her tragic death. A summary.
Whitney Houston will not be forgotten. The songs of the international world star with the unmistakable voice are still heartwarming today (including “I Will Always Love You”, “Run to You, “I Have Nothing”). The singer’s life took aThere was a tragic end on February 11, 2012: Whitney Houston was found lifeless in a bathtub. At that time, the music icon was 48 years old. Cause of death: drowning.
The singer-actress has been through a lot, from growing up to musical success, through her tumultuous marriage to Bobby Brown, her addiction struggles and her death. After her death, more and more facts about her life came to light. Here are the 6 most disturbing.
A look back at the life of soul diva Whitney Houston – rumors and controversies
abuse in childhood
The allegations weigh heavily: Whitney Houston is said to have been raised by her cousin as a child Dee Dee Warwickthe sister of Dionne Warwick, sexually abused. The allegations against Dee Dee come from Whitney’s half brother Garland. He is also said to have been abused by his cousin. Mary Jones, Whitney Houston’s assistant, also leaked the family secret in the “Whitney” documentary. For Whitney’s mother, Cissy, the claim was hard to stomach. She is said to have been unaware of all the terrible events in her daughter’s childhood. Together with Dee Dee’s sister Dionne Warwick, she issued a statement to the US magazine “People”. It says: “We cannot describe our shock and horror. We find it hard to believe that my niece Dee Dee Warwick molested two of my three children.” The two women have not denied the accusation. In order to suppress the experience, Whitney is said to have taken refuge in drugs.
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Secret bisexuality
Rumors have circulated for years Whitney Houston’sbisexuality. Her assistant, longtime friend and close confidant, Robyn Crawford, made the love affair with the singer public in 2019. In her tell-all book, A Song for You: My Life With Whitney Houston, Crawford states that she and Houston weren’t just platonic friends. “We wanted to be together, just the two of us”, can be read in the work. The friendship turned into a sexual relationship, which was not kept secret from friends and family, but was not accepted. In addition, Robyn Crawford feared that Whitney could ruin her career through their romance. Neither of them wanted to give up their love. “Whitney knew i love her. And I knew she loved me. We meant everything to each other.” Houston’s ex-husband Bobby Brown confirmed the speculation in 2016.
Robyn Crawford and Whitney Houston around 1988
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Toxic relationship with Bobby Brown
“If he said something, I’d listen to him,” Houston said in 2009, describing her relationship with R’n’B singer Bobby Brown, with whom she had daughter Boobie Kristina Oprah Winfrey. “He was my drug, I didn’t do anything without him.” The marriage that Whitney Houston and singer Bobby Brown consummated in 1992 was what would now be defined as a toxic relationship. The media later said Bobby Brown destroyed Whitney Houston. From “Beauty and the Beast” is always the talk. Did the artist’s decline begin when she met Bobby Brown? After her death, the musician rejects all allegations. “I never experienced a (drug) high before I met Whitney,” Brown said. “I smoked weed, I drank beer,” but he didn’t touch harder drugs. Drugs played a role in his wife’s life “long before” their relationship began in 1991. “It’s completely inexplicable,” he said, “how anyone can claim I got them addicted to drugs.”
Bobby Brown wanted to get rid of his bad image, but he hasn’t succeeded to this day. Whitney Houston also contributed to this with her own statements. There have been multiple instances of violence in the relationship. The reason for the dispute is said to have been that Bobby couldn’t cope with Whitney’s fame. In 2007, the couple divorced. Whitney Houston said about the marriage at the time: “It was only because of my child that I was able to get through the darkest phase of my life.”
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drug swamp
Alcohol, substance abuse and rehab were the downsides of Houston’s illustrious career. The soul diva tested illegal substances with her siblings when she was young. She has long denied her drug addiction. With Oprah Winfrey, she spoke plainly. “I smoked crack and marijuana. It got worse and worse after filming ‘Bodyguard’ in 1992 […] Sometimes I couldn’t sleep properly for months.” Her life spiraled out of control. “I partied a lot. Really, I celebrated my heart out,” she said in an interview about her addiction problems at the time. Whitney’s mother Cissy finally made sure that Whitney went to a rehab clinic. Not the last time for the singer. Despite numerous withdrawal attempts Houston couldn’t get off drugs.
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her mysterious death
On February 11, 2012, the exceptional talent was found lifeless in the bathtub of his Beverly Hills hotel room. The news of Whitney Houston’s death on the eve of the Grammy Awards shocked the world. Her death has been a mystery for a long time. Officially, it is said that the singer was found face down lifeless in the bathtub, the cause of death was drowning, the coroner said, as “the result of heart disease with hardening of the arteries and cocaine use”. Bottles of pills lay next to the tub. Her death was ruled an accident. Could it have been prevented? “We know that she had heart disease and that she was a chronic cocaine user. If it weren’t for those two factors, she probably wouldn’t have drowned in the bath,” said Craig Harvey, spokesman for the coroner’s office. There are still many theories and rumors about the soul diva’s death. Accordingly, Whitney Houston could her put an end to life itself or even murdered.
The equally mysterious death of her daughter Bobbi Kristina
The parallels to her daughter’s death are terrifying. On January 21, 2015, around three years after her mother’s death, 22-year-old Bobbi Kristina was also found unconscious in a bathtub. Ssince then she had never fully regained consciousness. Bobbi Kristina was in intensive care for months. Her condition eventually deteriorated so much that she was transferred to a hospice in June, where she died on July 26, 2015. The autopsy revealed brain damage and a pulmonary embolism caused by the simultaneous use of alcohol, marijuana, morphine and a cocaine substitute.
Like the US portal TMZ claims, There is said to have been a similar incident three years earlier, in which Bobbi Kristina almost drowned in a bathtub. An anonymous source says she and her mother partied together at the Beverly Hilton Bar in Beverly Hills the night before Houston’s death in 2012. Both were very drunk. Later that evening, Bobbi fell asleep in the bathtub with the faucet running. That’s when she was saved. Especially traging: Whitney’s daughter has always had premonitions and fears of ending up like her mother. Her premonition came true.
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Bobbi Kristina never seemed to get over her mother’s death. She died of a broken heart, as did her mother, Whitney Houston. That’s what the singer’s stylist claims.
The music icon will not be forgotten.
Sources used: spiegel.de, t-online.de, promipool.de, bigfm.de, kurier.at, welt.de, stern.de, morgenpost.de