I feel sorry for Whitney, only not too sorry for a person who is not as young as she used to be and probably not much wiser. I don't feel sorry for Cynthia. Or the a**holes who voted for her.
She was a beautiful woman with a beautiful voice, but her personal life appears to have been a mess long before she fell into substance abuse and fell apart in public, several times. I don't even know anymore, if she can turn herself around. She looks pretty far gone.