“What did she see in Bobby Brown in the first place?”
Answer: Bird of feather!
To wit, I used to work with a gentleman that lived in the same Queens neighborhood as Whitney when she was growing up (until she became famous). His son was a very good friends with Whitney, too. I recall asking him (in 1999) how the hell Whitney could go from being such a sweet and decent person to marrying a thug like Bobby Brown and then becoming a total wreck. His reply to me was that Whitney was never the sweet and wonderful person that the media portrayed her as. Rather, he stated that she had been using drugs (weed and cocaine) long before she became famous. He said her situation didn’t suprise him at all, but was rather suprised it took until 1999 for her to self-destruct because he believed it would have happened within a year of her first big hit 1987 (When will I know).
Winehouse too started using drugs young.....I think what gets irritating for some is when they go on to become stars etc. and it’s played as if stardom, or Hollywood, or a bad person in their life brought it on...when it was a budding problem long before they reached stardom. They went to stardom WITH the problem.
There’s an interview with Winehouse at the beginning of her stardom where she admitted people THEN were trying to caution her about her ‘sustance abuse’...and she laughed...saying she probably shouldn’t have mentioned that on national TV.
Ofcourse. I am not a fan of Whitney, not my kind of music. But I do remember the first time I heard her speak off the PR script—I was shocked. Completely ghetto. She could turn it off when she needed to but when she didn’t there was no mistaking who she really was.