Posted on 02/02/2005 8:47:59 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
By Gail Mitchell
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Following a suicide attempt, R&B singer Houston has gouged out his eye while on an overseas performance junket.
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A brief statement was released Wednesday by his Capitol Records label, saying only, "Our thoughts and prayers are with Houston during this tragic time."
According to sources, the singer first attempted to jump out of a London hotel window last Thursday. Prevented from doing so by his security staff, Houston was locked in his room, at which time the injury occurred. No additional details as to his current condition or whereabouts have been disclosed.
Featured in a McDonald's commercial, Houston's 2004 hit single "I Like That" peaked at No. 11 on the Hot 100 singles chart. The song also featured Chingy, Nate Dogg and I-20.
Houston's debut album, "It's Already Written," has sold 208,000 units to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan, having peaked at No. 14 on The Billboard 200.
Reuters/Billboard
I often said, "I'd give my right eye for . . . ." I'd better be careful what I say.
Eye think he must have seen my favorite christmas movie,"A christmas story" one too many times, and took it literally!!
"Houston, you have a problem": Eye can see that" replies Houston. "On second thought, Eye can't see that, Eye am trying to keep one eye on other things.
(My sense of humor has sure improved, since Eye joined this site, and eye thank all of you for helping to lighten me up, through some hard times-- Jack.)
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1496457/02022005/houston.jhtml
Los Angeles radio station KKBT-FM's K-Sly, who appeared in the "I Like That" video and is close to Houston's camp, said the singer had been under psychiatric care last year for manic depression. Another source corroborated that claim, adding that Houston had also struggled with PCP.
"I was told he wanted to commit suicide and stabbed his eye out," K-Sly said. "He was telling people he was Jesus and wanted to go home to his Father."
I don't. Never did. Never will.
Never heard of him.
You should be brow-beaten with a wet noodle (it leaves no mascara tissue).
DRUGS .... you have to be amped up on meth-cocaine or something similar to build up enough of a head of steam to gouge out your eye.
He'll be blindsided when he see's the error of his ways.
snake plissken fan? eye carumba!
Punning is a tragic condition, leading to a lifetime of wet noodle beatings.
I'd say that the PCP has got the best of him.
Perhaps Houston was musing on the epigamist's :
"In the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is King."
headsonpikes fatherly advice to young folks:
Never think too hard about stuff when you're whacked on juice.
Note to self: Maybe spellcheck isn't such a bad idea, after all.
I guess I don't follow R&B like I used to. Delbert McClinton would never gouge out his eye. But then again, he was more "roadhouse" than R&B, I suppose.
A manic person on PCP??
I bet even he saw that one coming.
That's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick...oh, wait...never mind...
Some kind of half-hearted Oedipal complex?
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