And she has blown much of her multi-million pound showbiz fortune on her habit. Now family and friends fear the addiction will end in her death unless she can beat it. Tina, sister of Bobby, is herself a self-confessed former addict who once regularly took crack with mum-of-one Whitney.
She is now clean. Everyone is so scared she is going to overdose. There the woman who co-starred with Kevin Costner in the hit movie The Bodyguard smokes crack, uses sex toys to satisfy herself and ignores personal hygiene. When high on drugs, she imagines she sees demons and is being beaten by them. The sad truth is that she bites and punches her own body without realising it. Millions of fans will find it hard to believe that THIS was once the wholesome girl admired for her stunning looks and amazing voice.
The artist who started out aged 11 in a church gospel choir, encouraged by a family of top singers like her mother Cissy Houston, first cousin Dionne Warwick and godmother Aretha Franklin. In a shocking interview, Tina told how Whitney would spend days locked in her bedroom amid piles of rubbish, smoking crack, using sex toys and ignoring her personal hygiene.
The tormented star also imagined she was being beaten up by DEMONS — but the sad truth was she was biting and punching her own body without realising. Tina said Whitney constantly broke things around her home and was so paranoid she made a hole in the bathroom wall so she could see who was in the house. Users usually break an eight-ball up into smaller pieces, but Tina said Whitney would cut open a cigar and put the whole rock inside with marijuana before smoking it.
Whitney twice went into rehab before telling Oprah she was drug-free in But she pulled out of a string of concerts in Britain and the US, and suffered a series of public meltdowns.
A singer who accompanied Whitney on her final tour in last night told how he could see her troubled past in her eyes. It was such an honour to perform with her. But she had long suffered from financial problems because of her addiction. In the months before her death, it appeared Whitney was being financially supported by Arista, which had given her an advance payment on her next album.
Like Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse, it came as a shock but not a surprise. I met Whitney in and was upset to see how fragile she was. She seemed unsteady on her feet, distant and fidgety in front of an audience. It was supposed to be the start of a glorious comeback. Like Jacko and Amy, Whitney should be remembered for that amazing voice.
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