Don't forget to watch Whitney on Oprah.....then we will talk

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'My mother forced me into rehab by staging an intervention with armed police'

Whitney's Houston's mother staged an intervention involving armed police to save the singer as she spiralled out of control.
Cissy Houston got a court injunction in attempt to force Whitney into rehab and save her from drug addiction.
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey which is due to air in the US on Monday, the singer credits her mother for saving her live.

Opening up: Whitney Houston spoke about her drug addiction with Oprah Winfrey

Whitney says Bobby Brown, her husband at the time, was scared of his mother-in-law and stood motionless while Whitney was taken away to rehab.
The singer said: “One day, my mother came to my house, she walks in with these sheriffs.
Low point: The singer, wearing a tracksuit and fur coat in 2005, says she wore pyjamas for seven months


'She said, "I’m not losing you to the world - I have a court injunction here - you’re either going to do it my way or we’re just not going to do this at all.

'"We’re both going to go on TV and you’re going to retire. This is not worth it."'

Whitney revealed that Cissy’s intervention scared her ex, Bobby Brown, into submission. Whitney recalled: 'Cissy said, "If you move Bobby, they’re going to take you down. Don’t make one move!"
He stood there like he was scared. She said, "Let’s go. Let’s do this."'
The relevation emerged from an exclusive two-part interview with Oprah, in which she reveals how her life first began to spiral out of control after her hit film the Bodyguard in 1992.
Whitney says she spent seven months wearing just pyjamas in the depths of her drug hell with husband Bobby Brown.
'It will leave you gasping,' teased Winfrey. The episode is set to air in the US on Monday.

The chat show host added: 'She does not blame Bobby Brown and she takes full responsibility for her engagement in drugs.

'At one point she says, "I didn't get out of my pyjamas for seven months".'

Winfrey said she asked the singer before the interview what she wanted to achieve 'She said, 'I want to tell my story, I want to tell the truth".'
Houston is now promoting her new album I Look To You, her first studio CD in seven years.

In her last television interview, in 2002 with Diane Sawyer, Houston famously denied taking crack cocaine.
She told Sawyer at the time: 'I make too much money to smoke crack. Crack is whack.'
Despite her denials, she checked into rehab in Georgia two years later.
Intervention:
Whitney with mother Cissy and father John in 1987

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But since splitting from ex-husband Bobby Brown in 2006 and winning custody of their daughter Bobbi Kristina, Houston has been steadily planning her comeback with the help of J Records boss Clive Davis. Houston is the only artist ever to have had seven consecutive multiplatinum albums, beating even the Beatles. Worldwide she has sold 140 million albums and 50 million singles, with I Will Always Love You, released in 1993, becoming one of the biggest selling records of all time.

Early life
Whitney Houston was born in a rough neighborhood in the projects of Newark, New Jersey. She is the third and youngest child of John and gospel singer Cissy Houston.[10] Her mother, along with cousin Dionne Warwick and godmother Aretha Franklin are all notable figures in the gospel, rhythm and blues, pop, and soul genres. Houston was raised a Baptist, but was also exposed to the Pentecostal church. After the 1967 Newark riots, the family moved to a middle class area in East Orange, New Jersey when she was four.[10] At the age of eleven, Houston began to follow in her mothers footsteps and started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she also learned to play the piano.[11] Her first solo performance in the church was "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah". When Houston was a teenager, her parents divorced and she continued to live with her mother. She attended a Roman Catholic single-sex high school, Mount Saint Dominic Academy, where she met her best friend Robyn Crawford, whom she describes as the "sister she never had." While Houston was still in school, her mother continued to teach her how to sing. In addition to her mother, Franklin, and Warwick, Houston was also exposed to the music of Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, and Roberta Flack, most of whom would have an impact on her as a singer and performer.[12]

[Boo]

Hey MzzzDiva & Sole....OMG...my computer is acting crazy, most of the time when I get on it will freeze up and I can't do a thang. I had plan to do a nice blog on Whitney, you know I can do better than this one but anyway thanks for commenting on this such as it is, right now everything is ok, don't know for how long.......anyway I went to sleep on Whitnet's first night , I saw most of the second night's....She really looks good

[Shelley "SoleMann" King]

Awwwwww, i wanted to see this