After being sued by her stepmother for nearly $1 million, Whitney Houston is fighting back.

Barbara Houston, the wife of Whitney’s deceased father, claimed that Whitney kept her father’s $1 million life insurance policy for herself when actually she was owed $723,000 of that.

But Whitney has a different story.

She says that she lent her father and stepmother money to pay for a condo in 1987 but was never paid back. She says Barbara owes her $1.6 million after not paying mortgage, tax and condo payments.

Barbara is probably wishing she would never have taken her claims to court. She should have just kept her fat mouth shut and enjoyed living mortgage free. What was she thinking? People are so damn greedy after someone dies. I have been there and it sucks.

Anyhow, producer Swizz Beats has been working with Houston on her comeback album. (Yes, it IS still happening!) and here’s what he had to say in a recent internet video, “Just wrapped up with Whitney Houston. First single’s a smash. She’s comin’ back crazy!”

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