I like Whitney Houston - she's about the only current diva I can stand. She has a great voice, good (but not great) musical sense, charisma, beauty, and a sense of humor well-displayed on her 1996 SNL appearance. I even used to like Bobby Brown when he was the King of New Jack Swing, or at least the Prince. But as a couple they seem to bring out the worst in each, and when they appear together, they babble like crackheads.
Tonight they appear with Diane Sawyer on ABC's PrimeTime Special Edition:
- In a rare interview, Houston told Primetime's Diane Sawyer that she has used alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and prescription drugs at different points during her career.
"I partied a lot. Trust me: I partied my tail off," she said, adding, "You get to a point where you know the party's over."
....But the days of her self-destructive behavior are over now, she says. "That was a moment in time that happened to me, that I was going through, that I'm over. I'm beyond it. It's past. It's done," she told Sawyer. Houston said the rumors about her health were wrong. "I am not sick," she said. "Let's get that straight. I am not sick, OK? I've always been a thin girl. I am not going to be fat, ever."
She denied having anorexia or bulimia, but admitted that she sometimes has difficulty eating. "If my nerves are bad, and if I have an emotional stress going on in my life, it's very hard for me to eat and stomach things," she said.
Houston faced a drug possession charge in January 2000 after an airport guard in Hawaii allegedly found marijuana in her handbag, but the charge was later dismissed. In the Primetime interview, she firmly denied tabloid reports that she had used crack cocaine.
"Crack is cheap. I make too much for me to ever smoke crack," she said. "Let's get that straight, OK? I don't do crack. I don't do that. Crack is whack."
Got that Diane? Crack is whack. Hit the rock, don't smoke it. A mind is a terrible thing to taste, er, waste. Whitney doth protest too much, and her assertions of all that being in the past seems to be an effort to convince herself.
- And when asked whether she will completely stay off drugs, she said, "Well, I'm not going to tell you that," but added that she is not self-destructive and does not want to die.
Article comments
1 - B.B.B.F (BIG BOBBY BROWN FAN)
Hi Im 16, and Ive always thought ive been born in the wrong time. But anyway to the point, everyone is dogging bobby and whitney. people are blaming bobby for whitney's downfall, but everyone has a mind of their own, she could have decided to say no, we learned it in the 4th graded. peer pressure my ass.they are human to, and no one's perfect. they both just need time to get it together, but sort if fast before they run out of time. ya no what i mean. i love em both but they really need to get it together. i believe that that they can do. they probably just need support, not the public or the media dogging them. and worst of all family thats dogging them, that shit need to stop. they need their family help to get back on the right track. the same thing they did to micheal jackson is what they are tring to do to bobby and whitney just a different subject. so please dont dog our people, if anything help them. i love em both but someone help them and quick. i just want them to know they've got my full support. "every little step they take' i will be there!"
signed
B.N.B AKA B.B.B.F
2 - kisa
agreed
3 - Just A Fan
To me both Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston are idols. They were both megastars back in the 80's and early 90's and both of them had tons of talent. I think both of them are still very talented and might be able to make a comeback if they seriously cleaned up, got their acts together and doggedly decided "Alright, I'm going to make a comeback. This is serious. I can't let my career end this way."
Unfortunately Whitney isn't hard or edgy enough for today's crowd who loves ghetto, gangsta chicks who can only carry a note and obsessed with no-talents like Beyonce and Rihanna. Her voice is shot from years of drug abuse and she hasn't completely sobered up. But she still has plenty of fans on her side and media support. Bobby Brown still sings more or less like he used to, a little damanged, but he mainly just has a deeper voice now and hasn't dealt with and perfected it in terms of singing. Unfortuantely for him he's gained some weight which he needs to lose before coming back and he needs to fix his face and hair up or something. He looks kind of unhealthy. He'll also have an uphill battle against public hatred and animus of rabid Whitney fans who use him as a convenient scapegoat to blame her bad behavior, addiction to drugs and crappy decisions on. It's not fair at all but it exists unfortunately.
Bobby, Whitney, you're both MEGAstars to me and could easily blow no-talents like Chris Brown and Rihanna out of the water. You have more talent in your pinky fingers than 98% of people in the game today. Please do the world a favor - COME BACK! We miss you!