On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel room. Ten years after her death, there are still numerous rumors and controversies surrounding the singer.
It’s the tenth anniversary of the death of US singer Whitney Houston. On February 11, 2012, she was found lifeless in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room. The news of her death on the eve of the Grammy Awards shocked the world. Houston was only 48 years old.
Even ten years later, new facts about her that fans didn’t know keep coming to light. There are also numerous controversies and rumors about the singer and actress.
Whitney Houston is said to have been bisexual
A longtime friend of Whitney Houston, Robyn Crawford, opened up about her love affair with the singer in 2019. In her autobiography, A Song for You: My Life With Whitney Houston, Crawford claims according to “People”that she and Houston weren’t just platonic friends. She also explained on the TV show Dateline: “Our friendship was a deep friendship. It was physical.”
Author Gerrick Kennedy also dealt with the romance of Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford in his book “In Defense of Whitney Houston”, which was published in early February 2022. He gives an assessment of why Houston did not go public with the relationship at the time: This decision was “an act of survival”, quotes “Variety” from the book. “The tolerance shown towards queer artists was still very low as pop music was ruled by homophobic gatekeepers.” So, in his opinion, Whitney Houston had no choice but to keep quiet about her sexuality in order to succeed.
her mysterious death
Whitney Houston’s death is still a mystery to this day. The official version is that the singer was found face down, lifeless, in the bathtub of her Beverly Hilton hotel room. Although Houston – who was from Newark near New York – had a heart condition, cocaine was also found in her blood. Bottles of pills were also found next to the body. The official cause of death was drowning, “as a result of heart disease with hardening of the arteries and cocaine use”. Houston had made headlines more with alcohol and drugs than with music and movies in her last years. Rumors persist to this day that her death could have been a murder. However, there is no solid evidence of this.
Her daughter’s death remains equally mysterious
“Bobbi Kristina confided in us that she felt like she was rushing through life, as if she feared ending up like her mother. I will never forget her disturbing words. Unfortunately, her premonition came true.” A friend of Bobbi Kristina Brown, Whitney Houston’s daughter, wrote these sad sentences shortly after the 22-year-old’s funeral in the Daily Mail. In fact, Bobbi Kristina’s death bears some parallels to her mother’s, which still shocks many to this day.
Because she was also found unconscious in a bathtub – about three years after Houston’s death. The 22-year-old was taken to a hospital, and in June 2015 she was finally transferred to a hospice. She died there at the end of July. The cause of death: brain damage and a pulmonary embolism after alcohol, drug and medication abuse. Her ex-boyfriend Nick Gordon was convicted by a court at the end of 2016 – he is said to have given her the deadly cocktail. Gordon himself died in January 2020 after a heroin overdose.
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s toxic relationship
Jealousy, resentment, aggression and dependency: Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston’s marriage in 1992 was the definition of a toxic relationship. Because he felt threatened by his successful wife, she tried to make herself smaller than she was. “If he said something, I would listen to him,” Houston told Oprah Winfrey in 2009. “He was my drug, I didn’t do anything without him.”
Houston fell deep into drug addiction with him – this public fall lasted 14 years until she finally managed to break away from Brown and the drugs. However, the latter was only partially successful, as her early death suggests. Only the two of them know what their relationship actually looked like.
To this day, Bobby Brown has repeatedly made different statements about this. In a 2016 interview with the US broadcaster ABC, for example, he admitted to having beaten Houston once. In 2018 he denied this and described the statement as “completely false”, as reported by the US portal “Entertainment Weekly” at the time. “There were no violent incidents between me and Whitney,” the singer said at a press conference.
Abuse in Whitney Houston’s childhood
Another abyss in Whitney Houston’s life: she is said to have been abused as a child. The 2018 documentary Whitney reported that Dee Dee Warwick allegedly molested the singer. She is Dionne Warwick’s younger sister and Houston’s cousin. In conversation with “Deadline” Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald explained that he suspected Houston might have been abused before one of her brothers spoke to him about it.
Gary Houston said that he too had been abused by a woman from the family environment. Other family members and Houston’s assistant would also have known. Two weeks before the end of filming, Macdonald only found out that the attacks had allegedly come from Warwick.
“We ended up having three different people confirming it,” Macdonald explained of the decision to publicize the allegations. At first he didn’t expect to make a film about an entertainer “that would take us to such a dark place. But once we got there, I felt that we had a duty [das Material] to publish.”
Hype about Whitney Houston is unbroken
That Whitney Houston was a successful and extremely talented singer is undisputed to this day. Her songs like “I Will Always Love You”, “One Moment In Time” and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” are unforgettable. The music icon is still being marketed all over the world. In Las Vegas, for example, the show “An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert” has been around since October 2021. Whitney Houston regularly appears as a hologram and sings her greatest hits. Houston’s performance is accompanied by her distinctive voice and supported by a band, background singers and dancers.