Whitney Houston hits rock bottom

Herald Sun ^ | 04/04/06 | NICK PAPPS

[SouthernFreebird]

Who hasn't known this for years...?

[cyborg]

Oh yes. She needs a godly intervention.

[SkyPilot]

From the Daily News....

The once-gorgeous, velvet-voiced crooner who wooed Kevin Costner in "The Bodyguard" now "spends her days locked in her bedroom amid piles of garbage, smoking crack, using sex toys to satisfy herself and ignoring personal hygiene."

Whitney hallucinates and sees "demons" when she's high. She bites and beats herself black-and-blue but blames the "Devil" for the injuries. "The Devil be hitting me," Whitney reportedly told Brown.

When Whitney's mom, Cissy, forced her to attend rehab sessions in March 2004, Tina Brown says, Whitney smoked crack on the way to the meetings and dodged the urine drug tests saying: "I'm not giving you no pee today. I don't have none right now."

Whitney allegedly loses her $6,000 set of false teeth when she's high and once appeared toothless, scaring the kids at her niece's school.

Whitney smokes as much as an "eight-ball" (1/8 of an ounce) of crack at a time, mixing it with marijuana encased in a cigar wrapper, according to Tina Brown.

In 2004, a drug dealer called Bobby Brown and ordered him to remove the paranoid and out-of-control Whitney from his crack house. "Come get your wife. I'm sick of this b----," the dealer reportedly complained.

Addiction is something straight from hell itself. Only God can rescue her now. The real God, an not her "Kaila."

I still remember her going on TV with Diane Sawyer and saying "Crack is wack!"

It was so transparent.

A bit of a reminder of what she used to be.

[tuffydoodle]

I'm really boring, I don't consume alcoholic beverages, either. Used to but as I've gotten older it just doesn't agree with me anymore.

[dandiegirl]

I have a good friend that died from doing crack she just couldn't quit. She was only 42. We would hear terrible stories about where she would spend the night. It was very sad.

[Vicomte13]

No, Tylenol does nothing for me.
When I have a headache, which is daily, a Tylenol...or 5 Tylenol...has absolutely no effect on it. None.
I am convinced that there is no active ingredient in Tylenol.
But aspirin?
Plain old bitter aspirin - if I chew up a couple, the headache is gone rapidly.

[ordinaryguy]

She can make a comeback IF she stays alive.

Some singers might ruin their vocal cords with that level of drug use.

[Revolting cat!]

I dunno about all this, but I hope the celebrities (known for being known) are praying for me...

[Reddy]

This is too sad. I used to think she was one of the most beautiful women in the world. Now she is so ravaged by drug use, inside and out. May she get the help she needs.

[Revolting cat!]

Ibuprofen does it for me, and with prescription strength - 800mg or so, I even get a little buzz!

[SkyPilot]

Hard to believe the transformation.

I know. Look at this series of mugshots of a girl. In the course of 14 short years, she went from a beautiful 16 year old girl to what you see here.

She died at age 30 shortly after the last picture was taken.

[Fred Hayek]

She looks at least in her late 40's in the last shot.

[fabriclady]

"Man, what drugs will do to you."

I doubt there is a lot of difference in drugs and alcohol. My oldest brother was a millionaire, around 1980, he began to drink a lot, in a short time he was spending weeks at a time in his house, DRUNK. Abused his wife so that she finally fled with the 6 children. He sold his business, everything spent for liquor. Today he a broken old man at 73, living on Social Security. My Mother's heart was broken, she prayed until God called her home.
The family hurts the most.

[Huck]

You are so right. I've seen people's lives completely demolished by cocaine. That's why, even though I've smoked boatloads of grass, taken LSD, eaten mushrooms, and even tried opium once, I never touched cocaine. Not a single time. And I had plenty of chances. But to me, it's pretty easy to see what particular drugs will do. Just look at the people using them. Heroin is probably even worse, although cocaine seems to be right up there. Meth is another total destroyer. Then again, I've honestly seen people destroy themselves with booze, too. Maybe a little slovenly, a little paranoid even, but never destroyed.

[angcat]

Whitney allegedly loses her $6,000 set of false teeth when she's high and once appeared toothless, scaring the kids at her niece's school.

Why does she have false teeth?

[SkyPilot]

I doubt there is a lot of difference in drugs and alcohol.

I agree. Alcohol is a drug, and a very, very powerful one at that. It is also the most abused drug in the US.

[SkyPilot]

Why does she have false teeth?

I dunno, I was hoping someone could answer that.

[al baby]

It is sad I am a few days shy of 5 years clean and sober better her than me God Bless her though

[al baby]

It is sad I am a few days shy of 5 years clean and sober better her than me God Bless her though

[cyborg]

Hopefully, someday she'll be where you are now! It's not easy.