Whitney Houston on Oprah
Whitney Houston spoke candidly with Oprah Winfrey during an interview with the talk show queen.
She went into detail about the abuse she endured while married to Brown. She claims he was very emotionally abusive. She claims that in one instance he actually spit on her, and that provoked her to hit him over the head with a phone, drawing blood. She says their daughter, Bobbi Kristina, was coming down the stairs at the time and saw everything.
Watch Whitney tell Oprah that Bobby Brown spit on her.’
She admits that she loved her husband, even going on to say that they had a lot of sex (ew, nice visual) and that loving him was her real addiction.
Whitney admitted that her life took a turn for the worse after her starring role in the film, The Bodyguard. That’s when, she says, she really started abusing drugs. Although she used cocaine and pot before the film it wasn’t all the time. But once her film, The Preacher’s Wife came out, she was drugging daily. She never admitted to smoking crack, but did say she was free-basing.
She credits her mother, Cissy Houston, with saving her. She says her mother showed up at her doorstep with a court junction telling her it was either rehab or giving up her dream.
“One day my mother came to my house. She walks in with these sheriffs and she says, ‘I have a court junction [sic] here. Either you’re gonna do it my way or we’re just not gonna do this at all. We’re both gonna go on TV and you’re gonna retire. This is not worth it.’”
She adds that Bobby was home at the time but momma Cissy wasn’t having any of him.
“She said, ‘If you move, Bobby, they’re gonna take you down. Don’t you make one move.’ He stood there like he was scared. She said, ‘I’m not losing you to the world, I’m not losing you to Satan, I’m not doing this. I want my daughter back.’”
Today was only Part One of the interview, so if you forgot to watch it, make sure and DVR tomorrow’s show for Part Two!
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