“Houston, however, was an adult who made a decision to embrace the drug life.”
That statement says it all. A number of people blamed her ex-husband, but he had been out of the picture for some time. No, whatever happened to her in recent years was her own doing. She made bad choices. And in the process she squandered her beauty, her talent and her life.
I heard her last interview. I wanted to clear my own throat listening to her talk. The vocals were destroyed. She was all done by then. A sad life story.
Bobby Brown seemed to take all the blame for Whitney's descent into addiction, as though she was some innocent angel before he ever walked into her life. Truth is, Whitney's public image was carefully tended and those who knew her know that she was dabbling in drugs long before Bobby Brown came into the picture.