Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Whitney Houston: What's really going on?


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So, here's an article that says Whitney's sister-in-law, Tina Brown, is blabbing on how nasty Whitney's bathroom is and how she's still doing drugs daily.

Quote from the article:
Tina Brown, who last week confessed to the tabloid that she did crack with Houston, said the Grammy-winning singer has lesbian affairs, chases men around her house and locks herself away for hours with a vast collection of sex toys when she’s high on drugs.

The "What Happened to Whitney" stories never cease to end. For me, who was an avid fan of Whitney's since I was young (for my senior graduation speech, I sang her song in front of the whole school - I'm talking about I was really a HUGE fan), she was my singing "idol" (I used that term loosely). I loved how her voice was so rich and strong, and how she was so beautiful. She had it all: spunk. soul. class. style.

So, what happened to Whitney? Another little secret is that I have met Whitney and worked with her over the course of some months on the Being Bobby Brown show. And what working with her taught me is that people are human, feelings are real, and everybody falls down sometimes.

What if chocolate was a drug. You know where to get it, you've tasted it before, and you know if you have 1 little bite of chocolate, it wouldn't hurt you that badly. Would you take the bite, after having been a chocolate lover for some time? Or quit cold turkey? With it being so easy to get and in your face at every restaurant, every grocery store, everywhere you turn, could you simply ignore it?

People are always knocking Whitney down, but I support her efforts at rehab. And all these naysayers and dirty talkers who continue to blab to the National Enquirer just to make some cash on the side need to be kicked out of her life. They don't help. They only hurt.

I mean, what I think really happened to Whitney is that she's tired of being confined to a perception of who people THINK she should be and who she REALLY IS. Clive Davis, society, movie goers, fans of her music, etc. They all have an image of who Whitney is to them in their heads, and she has to fulfill that image every day. I think she just got tired of it and rebelled. I just think her rebellion went too far, and it became a slippery slope and now she's constantly fighting an uphill battle that society, fans, and family continually try to push her back down.

Do you agree? Or do you think she's just a lost cause? There was once a Whitney Houston that was judged only by her voice and beauty, and not for her personal problems. Who says it's our right to even comment on her personal life? Would we like it if people knew EVERYTHING about our own personal life and felt entitled to comment?

Talk about it, ya'll. It's real.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think we are unfair to our celebrities because we will build them up and if they do one stupid thing we tear them down. It just so vicious and many times I wonder if we even have a right now now all the sordid details of their lives. As a public figure, do you automatically become a role model and subject to having all your business made public? I think the media says yes, but I think that is ridiculous. Stars should be able to have private lives, and the media should respect that. Plus if everything I did was scrutinized to the extent that some of these celebrities actions are I would be a basket case.
As far as whitney is concerned, poor baby, I blame her handlers. They need to do a better job...no more interviews where she declares crack is whack or trips to israel. She is not what they originally portrayed her as. I think they packaged her up real nice and neat and people simply weren't ready for the real whitney. However, I do believe the people around her need to intervene because it is obviously something very wrong with her now. I think she is a cautionary tale for all divas.

Anonymous said...

I'm one of the few people that don't care about what celebraties do in their personal lives. I got over it after I was out of high school and in the real world working. I blame the time frame she came into the business. It was in the time frame where it was cool to do drugs - everyone was doing it. In fact, it was laid out for you to choose your favorite type. Then, it all stopped with the onset of AIDS, Reagon Years of just say No, economy, change in culture. Whitney was surrounded by people who kept supplying her after the dance was over. These people feed off of her whether she is the diva or the druggie - she still makes money. I feel sorry for her and her children.
My take is this - get a minister from her childhood church to mentor, get rid of her husband and kick out any member of her family or so called friends that is into drugs, all of her agents and go back to gospel singing. You have to change the setting and the people around you in order to get straight and stay that way.
The industry and the media is a fish bowl that very few people are prepared for once you are plopped into it. Very few people survive it and come out whole at the end.

Anonymous said...

It is her PRIVATE life- we should let her be. Recovery is not easy, and throwing her life in bad public view does not help her or her family in any way.

Anonymous said...

It is her PRIVATE life- we should let her be. Recovery is not easy, and throwing her life in bad public view does not help her or her family in any way.

Anonymous said...

It is her PRIVATE life- we should let her be. Recovery is not easy, and throwing her life in bad public view does not help her or her family in any way.

Anonymous said...

It is her PRIVATE life- we should let her be. Recovery is not easy, and throwing her life in bad public view does not help her or her family in any way.

Anonymous said...

"LIVE AND LET LIVE"