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0:00 so you know I'm just kind of like you know going with the flow Whitney Houston The Voice a voice that only comes around once in a lifetime her voice opened doors all over the world for every female artist who came after her it's an undescribable feeling you know it's like a surge of energy it's like um just taking off and just flying the Tabloid scrutiny she faced acts perhaps as feminist cautionary tale she gave up so much for one man and in
0:46 doing so gave up so much of herself and her extraordinary Talent her desire for the security of marriage obscured everything else who's to say Bobby Brown was a bad person it is clear that Bobby and Whitney as a couple were unable or unwilling to support each other rather they enabled each other to follow destructive Paths of behavior Whitney's life was complicated and it ended tragically but her musical Legacy is so much more [Music]
1:59 whitne Elizabeth Houston was born on August 9th 1963 she grew up in Newark New Jersey the daughter of johnr Houston who would one day manage her production company and acclaimed gospel singer Houston from an early age she was able to be around you know the stars of gospel and R&B people like artha Franklin was you know kind of a godmother figure Dion Warwick was a relative B and CC winens were also people she spent time around so she she was never too far from that sort of scene even being in New York New Jersey which isn't you know these days really considered to be the epicenter of much of anything let alone the music [Music]
2:51 industrys in [Music] Hisar her mother was very very famous singer you know her mom sang with people like Elvis Luther vros and just every Star you can think of was very well known in the circuit as the great voice because she had this high octave thing going on a lot of Records people don't realize is actually doing this the backing vocals on breaking up [Music] it's
3:42 so to [Music] [Applause] do had a moderately successful solo career but it would never reach the same Heights as her daughter put her all into making sure she would succeed teaching her how to sing from the mind the body and most importantly the heart no matter what happens you always see that with Whitney she she's really loves gospel music she was obsessed with it all of her best friends were church people I mean even to the end you know people like kimberl the Winan's family as well when I look at
4:27 that it tells me that for Whitney it was really important that part of her life their life really was all about the church now this means that they had a huge extended family around them and she was in no two minds what was important and it was her mom her dad her family and religion I think coming from that world into this music industry which is filled with vultures and everything else I mean that's got to be tough for someone who's like 17 that's a big shift I don't know even if your mother was in that industry I don't know if you're prepared for that the first song that Whitney ever performed was guide me all thy great Jehovah and she performed that at the
5:13 age of 11 when she was a pupil at a Catholic girl school and the last song she ever sang was Jesus loves me so her her life was framed either side by two songs both of them [Music] devotional tough on her daughter for example in practice sessions she would make her repeat notes and musical phrases over and over again striving for Perfection but this tough love and desire for excellence led to friction between mother and daughter their relationship came under more strain after her parents' divorce John her father was a very jealous man and suspecting that was having an affair he tapped the home phone and found out that she was in fact having an
5:59 affair with the the minister from church this was a particularly devastating blow for Whitney as the church had always been her safe space where she sought silus when singing there many times a week which had now been tainted Whitney decided at the age of 18 to leave home and tellingly she did not let her mother know where she had moved to in fact she became roommates with Robin Crawford her best friend from the private Catholic school she had attended as well as being a young singer Whitney became a model too in fact she was the first black female to Grace the cover of 17 magazine in America this was huge and yes she's known as the voice but my goodness she had the face
6:46 too however Whitney had bigger plans seeing herself not as a fashion clothes horse but as a singer reconciling with her mother she had first sang backing vocals in her show until one day tricked her into singing lead vocals by calling her on the phone and claiming she had a fever and couldn't sing now wanting not to let her down Whitney went on stage and performed her mother's set Whitney's Big Break came in 1983 when the legendary producer and executive of Arista records Clive Davis
7:34 went to a New York nightclub where Whitney was performing immediately recognizing her immense Talent he signed her on the spot later that same year the Young singer made her National Television debut on the very popular MV Griffin show [Music] [Applause]
8:20 Houston did not begin work on an album immediately as knowing he had someone very special on his books Clive Davis wanted to ensure he had the right material and producers for her debut album eventually bringing to the studio talents such as Germaine Jackson NADA Michael Walden Teddy pinegrass and Kashif in the early days there were accusations of Whitney only being signed by Clive Davis because of the connection she had in the business I would like to think that um what um I have what has been God given to me would have gotten me into it you know anyway it's it's one for having um your mom and and your cousin being so successful in the business but it's something that you
9:07 have to do on your own you know you have to uh establish your own abilities I mean it's great to have them as my family and you know it got me a lot of places but um I'd like to think I could do it on my own Whitney Houston was a pop producer's dream now we're used to Manufactured girls boys coming out who look perfect and we kind of know that they won't be able to sing very well Whitney Houston had the face the body the charm that way where she was so charismatic she filled the room but the first song that Drew Drew my attention to Whitney was saving all my [Music]
9:52 love whole night the so SA all my love yeah I'm saing all my love yes I'm saing all my love for [Music] you I mean that song first of all let's talk about that time we had kind of come through the Disco era for black females to look up to it was Diana Ross you know Diana Ross was the icon she was the one that had the model looks maybe not the best voice in the world but very distinctive and you knew that di Ross voice when you heard it and we hadn't had someone look like that and sing gray
10:40 and that whole proper Diva thing we hadn't had that and when Whitney Houston came along she was like the new din Ross but she had this voice on top of it and so you heard Saving All My Love and then MTV was only starting to get a bit big then early on MTV was for the most part playing specifically white rock bands Michael Jackson famously was unable to get on MTV for a very long time how will I know which was Whitney's third us single went to number one and was really the first time that a young African-American woman was all over MTV that video was massively successful it was on constantly and it really cemented Whitney's presence in mainstream
11:27 America I if he really loves me I say a pray with every I Fall In Love We me I'm asking you you know about these things How will I know he thinking me I to fall but I'm too shy falling love is I feel [Music]
12:27 Houston won seven of American Music Awards in total in 1986 and 1987 plus a Grammy and an MTV video music award her debut album is listed as one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of all time and on the Rock and Roll Hall Of fame's definitive 200 list following her breakthrough doors were open for other African-American women such as Janet Jackson and Anita Baker to find notable success in popular music and on MTV the song I want to dance with somebody again just encapsulated how vibrant she was I remember the video well it was on MTV all the time no small feet she was the
13:13 first black female to be on MTV pretty much constantly her enthusiasm and innocence just Shone through Arlene Phillips one of the dance choreographers she worked with say she was a joy to work with she was kind of a bit gangl and shy I don't know if I want to dance but as soon as she did it you knew watching that video Not only was she the star of that video no matter who was in the background but she was there she was going to have a longlasting [Music] career with who Lov me oh I want to
13:59 dance with somebody I want to feel with her next three singles didn't we almost have it all so emotional and Where Do Broken Hearts go all peaked at number one on the US Hot 100 chart this continuation of number one hits established Whitney as the only artist ever to have seven consecutive chart Toppers surpassing records previously set by The Beatles and the bgs now America's sweetheart she was able to speak about causes close to her
14:44 heart including Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement 1988 Wembley Stadium it was the most watched television program in the history of the world to that moment and Whitney had flown over from the state states to participate she had always participated in the anti- aarte movement there was read from the stage a message from Nelson Mandela who was still in prison in Robin Ireland in South Africa and he said how grateful he was to all the artists who are participating especially Whitney Houston who has given so much pleasure to my fellow prisoners and I on ra and I said I was interviewing her for television on television live television and I said well you heard it he singled
15:32 you out she would be in the homes of millions more later that year when she recorded a song for the coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics One Moment In [Music] Time in when I'm racing with then in one moment of time I will feel I will feel [Music] eternity however rumors started to
16:19 circulate about Whitney's sexual orientation after moving in with Rob and Crawford the pair became Inseparable at the time no one wanted anything to dis disrupt this bullet train that was Whitney Houston she was the first mainstream African-American female Superstar and the team surrounding Whitney was worried that this rumor might be her downfall in the conservative Reagan Bush climate of the era widely known in Show Business that Whitney and Robin were together and this was not some kind of scandalous pickup they'd known each other from high school most of the Rumors in Whitney Houston's case have been confirmed by very close sources such as her bodyguard family
17:05 members there's a phrase in Psychology known as cognitive dissonance and this is a problem that's caused when people are one thing when they face the world and another thing when they face themselves so if you were saying like Whitney did that I am a good girl I'm an honest girl I'm an All-American Girl I am who I say I am I'm a heterosexual girl when you're saying all those things to the world and the truth might be slightly different that creates all kinds of problems particularly when you have a religious upbringing like she did because what it means is she's not just being dishonest to other people and dishonest to herself she's also being dishonest to God I don't think it'll really change perception of her either way I think it only makes what happened
17:52 in her death and her addiction and her marriage that much more sad and you know there have been theories about Whitney's drug use including you know some gay activists who have said that if Whitney had been allowed to live as a lesbian woman she wouldn't have had all these drug demons it's absolutely tragic and the truth is the only person who knows is Whitney Robin certainly had real influence over Whitney being the only one who could get her out of bed or tell her what to do her management team and family members did not like the control she had over Whitney and so they wanted to break up this relationship Whitney felt like control was being taken away from her some critics believe that she was selling out
18:38 arguing that her singing on recordings lacked the soul that was present during her live concerts at the 1989 Soul trained Music Awards when Houston's name was called for a nomination a few in the audience Jered I loved what she said because she sort of came out when she when she went to accept her award she said you know you have to do what you have to do to get to where you want to go sometimes but with I'm Your Baby Tonight it did show that she kind of recognized what her critics were saying about her that her sound wasn't Tough Enough that wasn't Soulful enough so what she did was in 1990 she got Luther vanross La Reed baby face the reception of the record was commercially fantastic I mean Whitney Houston had just all kinds of commercial momentum she could release pretty much anything it would be
19:25 a major hit [Music] me baby I been there in a Hur it's your baby baby whatever you want I'm you everything your baby tonight you g measy you're my fantasy I'm [Music] youry the 25th Super Bowl in 1991 silenc those critics who had claimed Whitney had lost her soul when her rendition of the Star Spangled Banner became the gold standard for all those singers who followed every single other person that's come and sung it I I don't
20:10 remember except her one she completely nailed it this was and is now still one of the greatest moments in NFL history at the time America was in the Gulf War a lot of people had Sons and Daughters overseas it was a time of great patriotism and at the same time you know anytime you're at War there's a deep insecurity and fear and she rocked up a little Bower ha a tracksuit or a jumpsuit never before had a national anthem been released and zoomed into the top five it was a huge achievement and no wonder and again Americans just kept loving her more that was their song this was their girl to this day I cry every time I hear it the most beautiful rendition of the Stars Bengal Banner
20:56 that has ever been done before or since s it was a defining moment in Britney's career she was America's beloved daughter for doing such an extraordinary job on such a significant song at such an important [Music] time for the [Music] and the [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
21:42 [Music] of it's an undescribable feeling you know it's like a surge of energy it's like um just taking off and just flying [Music] throughout the 1980s Houston was romantically linked to a number of men including musician Germaine Jackson American football star Randall Cunningham and actor Eddie Murphy but it was at the 1989 Soul trained Music Awards when she first met the R&B singer Bobby Brown the headlines were kind of like what what are these people doing together he was a bit of a ladies man
22:28 man a real bad boy who already had kids lots of exes and I think people worried when Whitney met Bobby he was just about as successful as she was he was very popular and he had all this confidence and Swagger although on paper it doesn't work Bobby Brown and Whitney got on so well because he treated her like a normal girl and she said that many guys were just so scared of her and wanted to be overly nice that she was massively attracted to the this guy who was gentlemanly but had nothing to prove and she says that all he knew she needed was love there was chemistry full stop of course it shouldn't have worked but how
23:13 many girls know they shouldn't have gone out with a bad guy but can't help that feeling that gut feeling that you're just for some reason attracted to him that you want to be with him she was magnetized to him one of the other avenues that Whitney Houston had began to tentatively explore in the early 90s was acting The Bodyguard cemented Whitney's role really as an iconic legend you know she'd already kind of been hailed as this extraordinary voice and Beauty but with The Bodyguard she was the movie star she was great in the movie she's not a natural actress but she did everything well enough she was intelligent enough to read the lines in a believable way she had great chemistry with Kevin who really fought for Whitney in the role he he said in fact he said at her funeral a
24:00 lot of guys could have played my part but only one person could have been Rachel Maron the soundtrack itself was just Whitney Houston's biggest hit of her entire career which was saying something because her first album sold 13 million copies I will always love you what a choice of song funnily enough it nearly wasn't to be they had another song in mind which had been released a few months earlier so decided to go with I will always love you because it hadn't been released for years it was number one for 20 consecutive weeks in America Dolly Parton says Thank You Whitney for making this a Far More Beautiful song than I could ever have hoped [Music] to
24:45 will love you will love you will love [Music] The Bodyguard was a runaway success and Whitney became even more adored unfortunately this success was not conducive to a happy marriage with Bobby Brown feeling more and more sidelined as he realized he could never burn as bright as would his famous wife [Music]
25:32 with his ego knocked by being called Mr Houston Bobby was obviously jealous but could not admit to this gnawing emotion in an attempt to make her husband happy Whitney stepped down from her commitments in an attempt to buoy him up but still Bobby did things on purpose to hurt and belittle his more successful wife he had an image as a tough guy that's what he was trying to project and uh Whitney when introduced to drugs couldn't handle it now Whitney Houston hadn't been around drugs but when somebody you adore
26:17 introduces you to something and you try it and you like it and you want to be with them it's a recipe for disaster and although she had been clean living in the past perhaps she had an addictive personality all along it's just that the man who ignited this in her was Bobby Brown she had all sorts of problems with with addiction and so did he and and they both had you know very troubled upbringings and they both to a greater or lesser degree had had issues around self-esteem neither of them were really strong or indeed very powerful or indeed very congruent people people were easy with themselves if you look at the dynamic between Whitney and Bobby over the years again
27:04 and again you see a woman who is trying to bring herself down to the level of someone else so that he doesn't feel threatened and he feels comfortable just the association with Bobby Brown in the beginning not even you know her own behavior the crack started to show a little more people started to see her as well maybe we don't know everything about Wendy Houston maybe there's some things going on behind the scenes Whitney had always wanted the fairy tale marriage wanting to prove that she wasn't like her mother a divorce she believed she was in love with Bobby and nobody could persuade her otherwise as she remained in such a toxic relationship and on March 13th 1993 Bobby Christina Brown was
27:51 born after suffering a miscarriage on the set of The Bodyguard Whitney wanted her daughter Bobby to be with her at all times having a baby you know I'm looking forward to that raising a child you know hearing mommy you know that's what's foremost in my head right now you know I I I can't the movie's done you know the soundtrack's done um thinking about doing a gospel album you know so you know I'm just kind of like you know going with the flow during this period of her life Whitney started canceling tours and dates it was obvious to those close to the couple that they were taking illegal substances and nothing anyone could say or do could stop
28:38 them and they created what is no doubt a kind of codependency it locks two people together into this world where each one of them thinks the other person is the only person that truly understands them the only person that truly loves them the only person that truly sees them for who they are so to the point where Whitney actually said he was my drug you know when we fight it's love so they descended into this world of alcohol prescription drugs cocaine whatever whatever stories are true and whatever aren't true we know it was a world where it was a world full of addiction the song I have nothing is a is a typical example of the power of Whitney Houston's voice you know when she sang it was undeniable like you couldn't look
29:25 away it was compelling what's interesting about that song is the words are I have nothing I have nothing without you and I think it really was how Whitney felt about Bobby Brown at that time I mean you know Whitney had the world at her feet but yet she constantly submitted herself to him they became kind of codependent linked in a very destructive way but I don't think anything you know the fame the talent the money meant anything to her nearly close as much as it did you know to be loved by him make me close one more I don't want to hurt anymore stay in my arms if you
30:11 there St you there don't walk away from me I have nothing if I don't [Music] in the wake of her blossoming acting career in movies such as Waiting to Exhale and the preacher's wife the rumors of drug abuse which surfaced in the Press after Houston missed several appearances harmed her reputation an
30:57 examp example of this is when Houston was scheduled to appear on the Rosie O'Donald show in October 1997 to promote the film Cinderella but canceled at the last minute claiming stomach flu despite Houston's claims that her absences and cancellations of shows were due to real illnesses the rumor Mills still published stories of bad behavior linked to drug abuse just as Houston was battling these rumors she was also promoting her first studio album in 7 years with her roles in a number of films Whitney had broadened her demographic and she now had an even bigger audience for her music My Love Is Your Love Actually took eight years to make this came after a lot of kind of train wreck personal life
31:43 stuff with drug issues fights in the marriage with her and Bobby all kinds of trouble she came out of that recording this album originally it was going to be a greatest hits album with a couple of new songs but actually once they got in the studio she had great collaborators on this including Missy Elliott some great songs it turned into an album all by itself My Love Is Your Love Without Really compromising or sound too much you know it wasn't her just trying to get on like on a hardcore hip-hop track a Timberland beat or anything like that it really just kind of showed that she was able to translate her voice into something that had a little more Edge to it but without really alienating any of her uh prior fan base the song My Love Is Your Love was amazing on so many fronts because an
32:30 awful lot of critics had you know dismissed Whitney as a thing of the past and I guess her fans were turning their back looking at new music and when this song came out it was awesome because it had a slight reggy feel it was a million miles from the pop you might associate her with W Cliff John Lauren Hill from the Fuji were the sound of the moment they were working with her on this song so all of a sudden she didn't just please her old fans but a Young Generation sat up and thought this is a cool [Music] sound it would take eternity to break us
33:17 drink of Hold Us is my love my love is your love you take eternity [Music] with Robin Crawford Whitney's oldest friend with her best interest at heart still involved with Whitney and her team there was still a voice of reason in this shifting landscape unfortunately the power struggle between Robin and Whitney's husband Bobby resulted in an ultimatum knowing that Bobby was a seriously bad influence on Whitney and that their current behaviors and practices would destroy her Robin gave her friend a choice it's going to be me or Bobby when Whitney replied tell her I
34:05 accept her resignation they did not speak for years and her Ally was gone from her life when arguably she needed her most Whitney's Father John finally had total control she loved him and trusted him but this Blind Faith resulted in many people taking advantage of her financially including her own father after the success of My Love Is Your Love she signed with Arisa records for what was then most lucrative record deal of all time it was nine figures for six albums but you know at that point Not only was her you know her drug and alcohol abuse kind of spiring out of control the bigger issue was that it was all becoming more public love kid Whitney loves and believes
34:55 children fans were worried about Whitney's Health when she made an appearance on Michael Jackson's 30th Anniversary Special where her extremely thin frame further spurred rumors of drug use [Applause] Houston's publist revealed what was wrong Whitney has been under stress due to family matters and when she's under
35:41 stress she doesn't eat shockingly these Family Matters were a reference to the fact that Whitney's own father had been stealing huge sums of money from her the company John Houston Enterprise started by her father to manage her career was actually run by company president Kevin Skinner when she realized they had both been meddling with what was not theirs she cut her father off completely her father demanded Millions for brokering the 100 million deal album deal with her record company nippy had always been daddy's little girl but she knew now that he had completely betrayed her trust and tried to take everything that she had worked so hard for over the last 20 years his betrayal broke her spirit to the point where she didn't even see
36:27 him before he died in 2003 she didn't go to the funeral either but did visit the night before to close that sad chapter in her life shortly after finding out about her father's disloyalty she gave in an arrestingly honest interview with Diane sawer set up to promote her new album but also addressing her drug use and her marriage among other topics the Diane Sawyer interview was absolutely astonishing you had Whitney come in sit down very regally as you'd expect trying to keep herself together and you thought okay maybe she's all right here when down so her went for the jugular and asked her the tricky questions as a good journalist should did you take crack she
37:13 was you could tell very angry and trying to suppress that it's not just then no it isn't Diane tell me do you know it's scary th Whitney dying crack rehab fails first of all let's get one thing straight crack is cheap I make too much money to ever SLE crack let's get that straight okay we don't do crack we don't do that she crack is whack and she came across as very disjointed jumpy if she hadn't taken anything any drugs then then she certainly had quite recently before as later came to to be the truth but she
37:59 was very emotional and fragile and it's hard to watch because now we know just how much of a lie she was living December 2002 saw the release of Houston's fifth studio album entitled just Whitney the fact that this was the first album where Clive Davis was not the producer took its toll on the sound it is probably the least memorable in her discography the team who worked on the album said how hard it was to record with her with Whitney refusing to leave her room for days so wasting expensive studio time the team had an uphill battle especially with the record label desperate to launch another moneys spinning [Music] record this was a dark time for Whitney
38:45 who had been in and out of rehab numerous times perhaps the problem was that each time she went it was always for someone else recovery rates from addiction are quite low I mean if even Alcoholics Anonymous which is one of the most famous and probably still the most successful recovery program what one in four maybe actually recover the people an addict chooses to surround herself with or himself with are going to determine the success or failure of their recovery process if you look at what Whitney did who did she go to she went to a co- addict she went to somebody else who effectively to a greater or lesser degree was a mirror of her so far from helping her to recover he could give her the illusion that her behavior was kind of a acceptable because he was doing it too and there in lies the road to
39:32 ruin drug abuse in the marriage did not Abate and as a consequence in December 2003 Bobby Brown was charged with battery following an altercation during which he threatened to beat Houston and then assaulted her with police reporting that Houston had visible injuries to her face this did not stop Bravo network commissioning in early 2004 the reality TV program being Bobby Brown a show which reported to broadcast the domestic going on in the brown household the executives at the channel would not even consider the show unless Whitney agreed to appear Bobby was desperate to get some Fame on his own apart from his wife so he persuaded her to be on the show
40:18 when Whitney agreed to be filmed the show got the green light but it was one of the worst decisions she ever made for the rest of you know film history we can watch these scenes of a deteriorating Whitney talking about bowel movements talking about being drunk uh clearly under the influence of all kinds of drugs you could see him trying to drag his power back from Whitney like when he said one day when she came into the room you know Jack be nimble Jack be quick bring the ass in here quick and I'm going to show you what I'm going to do with it that's a man who's trying to sit down and say don't think she's the boss I am it it is train w television you would see Bobby Brown just you know delusions of grandeur ego out of control
41:03 drinking during the day and Whitney Houston during the same the show was not renewed for a second season after Houston stated that she would no longer appear in it and brown and Bravo could not come to an agreement for another season which again created more tension between Whitney and Bobby a man who still seemed jealous of his wife and intent on being in the show business spotlight himself eventually the couple filed for divorce in September 2006 a man like Bobby Brown doesn't want to be Mr Houston he wants his wife to be Mrs Brown and because that could never happen the implications for their marriage were severe and damaging she did it for her husband she did it to help him and it was very typical of their relationship that
41:50 everything she did to help him just brought her down some sneakers get um the point was over there fly you didn't like the jeans WIP my kisses off one more time one more time stop you didn't like the jeans unfortunately my daughter and my wife gangs up on me they want to do me harm y she wasn't my wife that wasn't my daughter okay and some shoes Okay sneakers and some shirts that's all Daddy stop she don't feel R what I do it's not what you did her it's you it's not you understand you [Music]
42:50 woman now emergency hi how you doing this is K from Beverly Hilton hi what's going on I need a paramedics apparently I got a 46y female found in the bathrooms that's all I've got right now but they're requesting paramedics okay female fell in the bathroom what room is she in I'm not sure she fell or she was in the bathroom with the water 4 464 434 I'm sorry that's room 434 yes okay that's not East West or anything else just Room 43 434 yeah okay and you don't know if she is conscious of breathing at all uh apparently she wasn't breathing and she's 46y old she was not breathing yes okay but she is breathing now I don't know she was the person that called me was skate and much out of okay got going there [Music]
43:37 now the real victim of this sorry Saga is perhaps Whitney's daughter Bobby Christina who suffered tremendously as a result of her parents dysfunctional marriage and let's spare a thought for Bobby Christina this is a girl who's grown up with parents both of whom are addicts allegedly she's been sitting in the back of a car when Whitney and Bobby were using crack cocaine this is a child who who Role Models parental role models are models of denial models of addiction and models of people who are living lives which are destructive and and addictive and in later years Whitney has alleged to have partied with Bobby Christina as if they were this buddy to
44:22 do drugs with determined to be free of her addictions and become the mother figure for her daughter that she'd always wanted to be Whitney entered a 14-week drug rehabilitation program unable to complete this rehab due to a surprising lack of funds Whitney decided to save herself and her daughter her only course of action was to record new music and go on tour with her Inner Circle advising her against this Whitney felt there was no other option at this point and so released a new album I Look to You in August 2009 when Whitney came back with I look to you it really was supposed to be a big comeback and if you look at the words to the song it really is about asking God for strength this was Whitney's kind of
45:09 coming back not just to the public but to her own Roots her very deep cemented belief in God which she had throughout her life I think at that point her public life the idea of Whitney Houston as you know a drug casualty as a reality TV casualty really overshadow owed her music career and I I look to you it kind of came and went at that point Whitney Houston kind of ceased to be a a pop [Music] singer Whitney's Infamous 2010 comeback tour which was around Europe and the UK uh drew a lot of fans who were ultimately very disappointed with what they heard almost universally the tour was ravaged by fans and critics alike
45:54 Whitney was erratic her voice was totally not on form and all kinds of videos leaked on YouTube about her forgetting words forgetting what she was supposed to say and seemingly intoxicated the world really saw it up close when she performed on the UK show the xfactor her dress was literally coming down on stage and she didn't [Music] [Applause] notice feel I [Music] [Applause] [Music] feel down
46:44 [Music] although understandably disappointed Whitney was Keen to move forward and in the remake of the 1976 film Sparkle she found a project that she was passionate about so much so that she became executive producer as well as a star alongside Jordan Sparks as her not so encouraging mother it was clear to the cast and crew that when Whitney first arrived on the set of Sparkle that she had just left
47:30 the rehabilitation center again but as production got underway everyone noticed a complete shift with purpose and focus in her life through having a stake in the film as well as knowing that she was with people who wanted to be working with her Whitney enjoyed the process and in fact when the film wrapped she did not want to leave and go back to her reality for the most part Whitty stayed away from La she spent a lot of time in Atlanta where she lived in a big house didn't really do much didn't really work just kind of hung around coming out to LA for the Grammys was a big deal for her the last song that Whitney publicly sang was Jesus loves me it was an impromptu performance for her friend the singer Kelly Price who the next day was
48:15 going to be receiving a Grammy award and it was heartbreaking because that was going to be the final song then how poignant that she's talking to Jesus that religion means so much to her and she wasn't to know that the next day she'd be [Music] gone tragically 2 days later on February 11th Houston was found unconscious in suet 434 at the Beverly Hilton
49:01 [Music] Hotel Beverly Hills paramedics arrived at approximately 3:30 p.m. found Houston unresponsive and performed CPR Houston was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m. the cause of death was not immediately known though local police confirmed that there were no obvious signs of criminal intent on March 22nd 2012 the Los Angeles County coroner's office reported that Houston's death was caused by drowning and the effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use the office stated the levels of cocaine found in Houston's body indicated that she had used the substance shortly before her death toxicology results revealed additional
49:47 drugs in her system badril Xanax cannabis and flexeril the manner of death was documented as being an accident Whitney's untimely death sent shock waves around the world no one could quite believe that America's sweetheart was [Music] gone on July 26th 2015 Whitney's daughter Bobby Christina was found unconscious in a filled bathtub in her home chillingly mirroring her mother's
50:34 death sadly after being in a coma for nearly 6 months Bobby at the very young age of 22 died from lowbar pneumonia Clive Davis who was such a great friend said publicly and we actually know this is true that she had said to him I really want to get back by August by August this year I'm going to have given up smoking completely I'm going to be your girl Whitney Houston's death really did
51:22 reverberate around the world you know sometimes I think you don't realize what iconic figure someone is until they're gone they'll never be another Whitney there's only one Whitney Houston do you know and there'll never be another one there's two great lines from from from Whitney one she said I Am My Own Worst Enemy and in one of her most famous and moving songs really which is I have nothing she said I can't I can't hide for myself I can't run from from uh from myself so many singers still want to be just like Whitney Houston with her pure talent Charisma that voice strong but soothing Soulful classy
52:08 Timeless she began as a perfect Pop Princess and matured into a true Soul Diva Whitney's life was complicated and it ended tragically but her musical Legacy is so much more we'll just remember the genius that took her to the top of the world and in posterity will'll make sure she stays there Bobby Christina explained what Whitney would be like after she came off stage she would go to CH Bobby Christina and say was I okay Bobby was Mommy okay tonight did I did I do okay was did I sing all right Bobby Christina would always be like yes Mommy you were great you were great the public didn't really
52:54 get to know that side of who she really was which was sensitive and a tad insecure and isn't it crazy you can have all that success and all that Fame and you yourself can't own it and that's the picture I get from Whitney she didn't really know how fantastic she was really I don't think so [Music]
