On February 11, 2012, pop diva Whitney Houston was found drowning in a hotel bathroom.
For a time, rumors about the cause of her death were flying all over the place, some speculated that it was suicide, some speculated that he killed, and the American gossip tabloid gave a dramatic answer, and was killed by her boyfriend.
The reason for this speculation is that she had a conflict with her boyfriend two days ago.
On the night of Feb. 9, at a friend's party, she suspected that her boyfriend was having an affair with another female star, and when she didn't say a word, she got into a fight, scratching her left arm and left calf, and blood flowing everywhere.
However, in the end, the forensic doctor concluded that he died of accidental drowning, which was caused by drug use and heart disease. Police found a spoon stained with a small amount of cocaine powder in the corner of the bathroom, confirming the forensic doctor's claim.
Whitney's life is legendary, with 33 years of total album sales of 170 million copies, 6 Grammy Awards, 15 U.S. Billboard Music Awards, 21 National Music Awards, and 2 Emmy Awards, the highest award on Television.
She has won more than 400 awards and nominations more than 500 times in her lifetime, and in 2006 she was awarded the Guinness Book of World Records "the most awarded female artist in the world" and she was also known as "the most singing woman on earth".
It is a pity that such a legendary figure ended up taking drugs and dying of overdose.
But when it comes to Whitney's history of drug use, it's a long time coming.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 Fall of the Queen of Heaven when people are unladylike</h1>
Whitney embarked on the road of no return on drugs, entirely because of her husband, Bobby Brown.
Bobby Brown is a rapper who is completely different from Whitney, and his fame is not made by music, but by various lace news.
His drunkenness, brawls, flirtations, and peachy stories with female stars have made him frequently in the entertainment headlines.
Bobby did not have much success in music, and after marriage, relying on Whitney's fame, the album released won the seventh place on the National Music Chart.
How did such a downright bad boy get into Whitney's eyes?
The two met at the Soul Train Music Festival, but Whitney was here to receive the award and Bobby was just here to perform.
At this event, Whitney won 6 awards, because she simply waited in the background because she had to keep coming up to collect the award.
As a guest of honor, Bobby worked very hard on the stage, naked upper body, jumping up and down, one will wrestle the guitar, one will smash the drum, desperately driving the atmosphere of the scene.
His performance successfully attracted Whitney's attention, and after stepping down, Whitney took the initiative to talk to him, but he looked Whitney up and down with a dismissive look, which immediately attracted Whitney.
Since her debut at the age of 19, Whitney has been radiant everywhere she went, almost all the eyes that looked at her were adoration and awe, and it was the first time she had met a man who looked at her like this.
That night, after the ceremony, she did not hesitate to accept Bobby's date and pursuit.
After falling in love with Bobby, Whitney has completely changed. On stage, she shuttled through major awards ceremonies and was praised as the sweetheart of the United States. But offstage, she changed her image of a well-behaved woman in the past, following Bobby around various underground bars and casinos, indulging in another life that stimulated novelty.
1992 was the most important year of Whitney's life, she harvested love, but also stepped into the grave of marriage, marriage became the biggest inflection point in her life.
In July, Bobby proposed to Whitney, and despite the family's strong opposition, Whitney insisted on marrying.
In desperation, the family forced Whitney and Bobby to sign a prenuptial agreement, which was mainly on the issue of property ownership, which specifically stated that in the event of divorce, legal separation or breakup, no fees would be paid to Bobby.
Everyone thought that Whitney had entered the quagmire of marriage, but what they did not expect was that the quagmire that Bobby created for Whitney was not property, but drugs.
After marriage, Whitney did not live a happy life of prince and princess, but continued to be in a constant situation.
At a concert in Miami, she was unconscious due to excessive cocaine use, and the staff tried their best to get her on stage. In the middle of the concert, the drug addiction attacked, and she shouted hysterically on stage and scolded the enthusiastic fans.
At the 72nd Academy Awards, Whitney was supposed to sing on stage, but was fired from the company the day before the awards ceremony.
During the rehearsal, she took the stage to sing "Above the Rainbow", a song that was no longer familiar, and sang it three times wrong, and the preface did not match the afterword.
The British "Sun" published a photo of the bathroom of Whitney's house, which was filled with various drugs and drug tools. It is said that when the photo was taken, they had just finished a drug party. At the same time, it was also revealed that Whitney was incontinent because she often smoked drugs, and almost couldn't take care of herself.
In 2001, at the gala scene of the 30th anniversary of Michael Jackson's career, Whitney's image shocked fans around the world, and she was already skinny.
That night, Michael Jackson waited early in the background, and when Whitney stepped down, he said to Whitney bitterly, "Nippy, remember, we are characters, not people. ”
In 2002, Whitney released the album "It's Whitney", most of which was like an excuse for her crazy lifestyle.
Although the Whitneys strenuously denied drug use in the interview, to outsiders, they were just a ridiculous couple.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 The birth of a talented pop queen</h1>
Whitney was born on August 9, 1963 in Newark, USA.
Her mother, Sissi Houston, is a well-known gospel music singer who has sung as an accompanist to big-name stars such as Elvis Presley. Her cousin, Dion Warwick, was a well-known American gold voice in the 1970s and 1980s and won several Grammy Awards for Best Female Singer. Her godmother was the famous Soul Song Queen Aretha Franklin.
Born in such a musical family, Whitney was destined to have extraordinary musical talent. From the moment she was born, the entire family was ready to make her a legend in the music world.
Since discovering her daughter's vocal talent, Whitney's mother's career has completely turned into paving the way for her daughter's future, and she has put her unfulfilled dreams on her daughter.
Whitney's family was not rich, and she was born in a poor and backward black neighborhood, but her mother always tried to get her to the best school, wear the best clothes, and get on the most dazzling stage.
Her mother once said to her: "Fame is a thorny thing, if you want to be famous, on the road of singing, you must take every step." ”
In 1983, while singing with her mother at a show in New York, Whitney was spotted by record mogul Clive Davis and signed her off.
But instead of immediately getting Whitney into the studio to record, he spent two years and nearly $200,000 in funding to fully package Whitney.
He didn't want Whitney to be limited to urban music and labeled a black singer, but rather to become an all-round artist.
In 1985, Whitney discovered her debut self-titled album, Whitney Houston, which topped the Billboard Albums Chart for 14 weeks and sold 25 million copies.
Her single "Give You Love" broke into the top five of the "Billboard" charts, and "Give Me All My Love to You", "How Will I Know" and "The Greatest Love" occupied the top three singles in succession. She also won a Grammy Award that year, becoming Best Female Pop Singer.
Overnight, Whitney became a superstar, and her music was broadcast over and over again on television.
In 1987, at the age of 24, Whitney topped the pop charts, and "The Greatest Love" was nominated for Song of the Year.
That same year, she released her second album, Whitney, which topped the Billboard album charts for seven consecutive weeks, breaking the Beatles' record of six consecutive weeks at the top of the charts.
In 1994, she won three awards at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards for "Album of the Year", "Production of the Year" and "Best Female Pop Vocalist", and was also certified "the best-selling blues singer of the 20th century" by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Her debut album of the same name was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2012, the R&B Hall of Fame in 2013, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.
Whitney had 3 diamond records and 11 national number one singles in her lifetime, and from her debut album, she won the Billboard Albums Chart for 46 weeks.
In addition to the great achievements in the field of music, the achievements in the field of film and television are also worth mentioning.
In 1992, she starred in her first film" The Bodyguard, when American critics were not optimistic about her crossover, but the male protagonist Kevin Costner insisted that she play the role, believing that Whitney did not need to audition at all, and could directly become the heroine.
Sure enough, Whitney's remarkable performance and enduring theme song made "The Bodyguard" a box office hit, reaching $410 million, a sensation around the world.
The starlight of the heroine of the film is simply a portrayal of Whitney's life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 Suddenly wake up and regret it</h1>
After getting married, Whitney's singing career plummeted, and she became the background board that set off Bobby.
Her life revolves almost entirely around Bobby, gathering people to take drugs, fights, and even pee on police cars, and Whitney is featured in all of Bobby's negative news.
Whitney blindly supports her husband, and her obsession and self-abandonment are incomprehensible.
In order to please her husband, a generation of divas paid fame, career and reason, her image is no longer glamorous, but disgusting.
In February 1993, Whitney made a will, and she made meticulous arrangements for her inheritance, taking care of all her relatives and friends.
The reason why she made her will so early was because she had overdose on drugs and fainted in the hotel, and at that moment she realized that she could not control her body, even life and death.
Later, Whitney made changes to the will in 2002 and 2006, the first to give the estate to her mother if her daughter died first, and the second to remove all provisions on fatherhood.
The first change was made in 2006 when news broke that Whitney's 13-year-old daughter had become addicted to drugs and that Whitney feared that her daughter would die before herself.
The second change was due to the fact that Whitney had a falling out with her father and even went to court.
Her father took Whitney to court in August 2002 for $100 million, a seemingly unreasonable request that was actually for his daughter's sake.
Whitney's life was a mess, sooner or later she would lose her property, and in order to keep some property for her, her father thought of this trick. However, Whitney did not appreciate it at all, she always thought that her father was unreasonable, and had vowed to die without contact.
She wanted to see Whitney before her father died, but she never showed up or attended her father's funeral. The father left his last words on his deathbed: "Tell Whitney, I forgive her." ”
The departure of family and friends gave Whitney a taste of rebellion, and it was then that she suddenly woke up.
Marriage became the dividing point of her destiny, and Bobby became her poison. Before meeting him, her singing career was like a myth, and after meeting him, her life became a joke.
Looking back on the ups and downs of more than a decade, Whitney realized that the biggest devil was herself, and only she could decide how the story should end.
On April 24, 2007, Whitney ended her 14-year-long bad marriage, she left home, won custody of her daughter, and successfully rehabilitated from drugs, ending her wrong love.
In July 2009, Whitney returned with a brand new album, I Look Forward to it, all of which expressed her desire to return to a new life.
As soon as the album was released, it topped the national record sales charts, and her former glory was immediately restored.
Watching Whitney's comeback is about to become people's favorite inspirational story. However, all the transformations fell into the abyss again at the last moment.
On December 9, 2009, Whitney's tour "Only Love" kicked off, but the European premiere was a mess, Whitney's body and throat were damaged by drugs, and her physical strength could not support a concert, and her voice could not return to its previous peak level.
Whitney went astray 20 years ago and ruined the gift God had given her. After 20 years, she hoped to be able to get God's favor again and give her a chance to be born again, but she never expected this opportunity, and she never got it again.
Whitney's life is like a Hollywood script, a black girl with a dream who becomes famous overnight through struggle.
However, at the peak of her life, because of the unladylike encounters, her life plummeted.