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There were times
when I would look up to God,

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and I'd go,
"Why is this happening to me?"

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And then these dreams.

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I would have these dreams
about being on a bridge,

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and the bridge going
back and forth and swaying.

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There's a big storm coming.

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I'm always running
from this giant.

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I'm always running
from this big man.

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I know I can make it.
I know I can make it.

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I know I can make it.

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My mother always says,
"You know,

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that's nothing but the devil.
He's just trying to get you.

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He just wants your soul."

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And in a sense, it's true.

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There's been several times
the devil has tried to get me.

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But he never gets me.

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And it's funny,
when I wake up,

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I'm always exhausted
from running.

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The news about
Whitney Houston is crackling through

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the music world
and the news is good.

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Her mother is
singer Cissy Houston,

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but at age 21,
Whitney Houston

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is blazing her own trail
with style and sizzle.

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The most successful
debut solo album in history.

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She's quickly becoming
the new queen of pop.

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Crowned the prom queen of soul.

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It will take an Act of Congress

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to keep this woman
from becoming a megastar.

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♪ There's a boy I know ♪

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♪ He's the one I dream of ♪

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America is working.

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♪ When I wake ♪

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♪ From dreamin' ♪

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♪ Tell me
Is it really love? ♪

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♪ Ooh ♪

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♪ How will I know? ♪

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♪ Don't trust
Your feelings ♪

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♪ How will I know? ♪

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♪ How will I know
If he really loves me? ♪

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♪ I say a prayer
With every heartbeat ♪

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Keep it down, son!

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We lived in Newark,
and then the riots took place

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- in the '60s.
- Do you remember them?

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Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

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I remember lying on the floor
and eating off the floor.

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For the bullets, you know,

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the bullets would fly
and go through you.

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I grew up in the ghetto.
I mean, that's where I grew up.

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♪ All that you deserve
To have ♪

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♪ Oh, that's why I say ♪

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♪ Hear me, baby
When I say ♪

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♪ I'm telling you, here...
Here I am... ♪

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I hear John's voice, "Hey, Bae."

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I said,
"What? Is Cissy okay?"

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He said, "Yeah."
He said, "She had the baby."

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He said, "Bae, you're not
gonna believe this baby.

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She looks unreal,
she's so beautiful."

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She was sassy, smart mouth...

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always following me,
you know.

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And my father made the point,
you know,

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"Listen, you got to watch her
and take care of her.

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If something happens to her,
don't come home."

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And we became just like,
you know...

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She was my best friend.

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She'd leave the house,
and she would be clean-haired.

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Then she'd come home,

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just dirty pants,
dirty shirt, hair messed up,

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'cause she always wanted to be
rough and tough.

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Always music on in the house,
especially on Sundays.

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Gospel all day long, you know.
And then there was always,

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you know, the music
that my mother was recording.

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♪ You told me
To leave you alone ♪

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♪ My father said... ♪

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My mother is known all over the world,

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and she sang background
for everybody.

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She worked her ass off
and spent time away from us

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in order to
make things better.

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I remember me and my sister
crying, sitting on the damn curb,

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every time my mother
would pull off to go.

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So we stayed with a lot
of different people.

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Me and my brother and my sister
stayed with a lot of...

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I mean, four or five
different families

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and different people
who took care of us.

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I wanted to become
a singer when I was about 13.

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That's when I realized
I wanted to be

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a professional singer,
but prior to that I just sang.

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I sang at church,
and I loved it.

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Remember the first song
you ever sang in church?

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Yes, I remember.

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♪ Guide me, O, thou ♪

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♪ Great Jehov... ♪

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- ...hovah ♪
- Man: Mm.

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♪ Feed me till ♪

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♪ I want no more ♪

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Yeah.

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My mother, well,
she raised us in church.

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You had to go to church
whether you liked it or not.

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But, growing up, I loved it.

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I loved to sing.

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I loved the choir.

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I knew that, whatever this God was,
he sure liked singing.

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He loved people to sing.
He loved to be praised.

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♪...The Lord ♪

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♪ Yes, he will, oh ♪

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♪ The Lord... ♪

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♪ Well, if you just... ♪

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- ♪ Have a little talk ♪
- ♪ A little talk ♪

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♪ With Jesus ♪

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I used to be the directress

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of all of the music
in this church,

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but now I'm retired.

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When she was a girl,
what was Whitney like?

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She was beautiful.

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She was a good baby.

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Mm-hm.

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Everybody loved her.

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Except those
who were jealous of her.

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There were girls
who liked to run her home.

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But I was always
waiting outside for them.

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I'm a fighter, okay.

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All right, so you bother my kids,

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you've then bothered me.

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In the neighborhood we lived in,

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there was a lot of dark-skinned,
colored people,

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and Whitney used to get
picked on all the time

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for being light-skinned...
A little white girl.

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'cause my mother
would dress her nice.

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She was a quiet, sweet kid.

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She didn't have
very many friends.

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She was very involved in the church,
um... would just go to school,

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and she would just hang out
with her brothers.

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Better hurry, Dorothy.

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You know how the Jacobs are
when we keep them waiting.

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Oh, I'm ready, George.

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You know, I think it's safe to say
there won't be

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a handsomer couple
at the party.

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Or a happier one.

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Where did the name
"Whitney" come from?

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My mother says something
about this white sitcom,

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but I never called her
Whitney.

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Always called her Nippy.

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Nippy is me. I am Nippy.

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My father gave me
that nickname,

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and I've been Nippy
since I can remember.

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Whitney's father, John Houston,

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was a key player
in the 1970s

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around the Gibson
administration,

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and he was
a real deal-maker.

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A deal-maker or a hustler?

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Well, it depends on which side
of the deal you're on. Ha, ha.

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He was the head of central
planning and zoning

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in that administration,

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which was a very corrupt
administration,

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and to get
a building put up,

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you had to go through
my father.

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So... you do the math.

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He did enough for us,

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along with my mother,
working hard,

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for us to get out of Newark

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and go to a house
in East Orange.

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We had a better school,
a pool, a backyard.

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They were
striving to become middle class.

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They had
a really nice house.

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They were the Cosbys
of Dodd Street.

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But East Orange
was 20 blocks from Newark, heh.

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You can live in a mansion
all you want,

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but when you come outside,
you gonna be amongst

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the motherfucking wolves
and bears.

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Now, for the three people
that haven't read about you,

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your mother
is Cissy Houston of The...

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- Sweet Inspirations.
- Right.

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- Your aunt is...?
- My cousin is Dionne Warwick.

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Who was your father?
Duke Ellington?

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♪ Just lift God up ♪

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I come
from a family of singers.

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♪ From eternal tears ♪

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The family gathered at
Christmastime, Thanksgiving.

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And after dinner,
instead of talking,

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we'd all go around
the piano and sing.

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♪ If you see me
walking down the street ♪

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♪ And I start to cry ♪

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♪ Each time we meet ♪

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♪ Walk on by ♪

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♪ What can you do? ♪

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♪ What can you say? ♪

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And your mother also tried
to have a solo career herself?

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She tried to have a solo career.

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It didn't turn out to be
what she wanted it to be.

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I think she poured a lot
of that disappointment

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into Whitney, for sure.

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♪ When I first saw you ♪

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♪ I said, "Oh, my" ♪

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♪ I said,
"Oh, my" ♪

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♪ There's my dream ♪

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♪ That's my dream ♪

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♪ I needed a dream ♪

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♪ To make me strong ♪

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Nobody could touch Whitney,
as far as singing, except my mom.

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My mom's voice...
And she taught Whitney

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everything she knew
about how to use that voice.

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You have three places
to sing from.

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From your abdomen,
your chest and your head.

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She learned them all.

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Cissy sang from her heart...

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and she taught Nippy
to sing from her heart.

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Heart.

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Mind.

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Guts.

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She loved her mother dearly.

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But her mother was, um...
the disciplinarian.

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Her mother was hard on her
when she was training her,

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would make her do it
over and over and over again

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to get it right.

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She was a little tough on Whitney

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because she knew
what Whitney had.

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They would come home a lot
of times mad at each other.

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Whitney'd come in stomping,

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cursing, go to her room
and slam the door.

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My mother telling her,
"Listen, if you wanna sing,

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this is what's got to happen.

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If you don't, tell me now.
I won't waste my time."

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Why was she sent
to that private girls' school?

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To put her in a safe environment,

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away from the bullying.

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This was the investment

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John and Cissy
were making in their daughter.

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They wanted her
to be educated,

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sophisticated,
and not streetwise.

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You know,
it sounds like I'm giving you the gas,

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but so help me.

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They had a really great
family dynamic going on.

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But I've also heard
that she was bullied a lot.

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Did other things
happen to her as a child

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that might help to explain

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why she became
such a troubled person?

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No, Nippy didn't have
nothing bad in her childhood.

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I sound a little defensive, I know.

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No, no. I'm just asking...

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Nippy, she did not have
anything in her childhood.

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She had an idyllic childhood.

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She loved my father.

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Loved my father
and loved my mother.

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Them breaking up and getting
divorced really bothered her.

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It bothered me.

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What was it that drove them apart?

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I don't know.

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Infidelity.

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My dad,
despite whatever philandering

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he might have been doing,
was extremely jealous.

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He had tapped the phone,

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so he's sitting
back in his office

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listening to Cissy's
conversations on the wiretap.

253
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The truth is Cissy did have an affair

254
00:14:39,212 --> 00:14:41,829
with the minister
at her church.

255
00:14:41,923 --> 00:14:45,257
I think about
my Father's house.

256
00:14:45,343 --> 00:14:47,801
- Yes, sir!
- In my Father's house,

257
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there's food.

258
00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,388
You know, you're in church,
and you hear whispers.

259
00:14:52,475 --> 00:14:56,219
None of them would
ever really get over it.

260
00:14:57,772 --> 00:15:00,435
Her heart was broken.

261
00:15:00,525 --> 00:15:04,644
That church had been
Whitney's second family.

262
00:15:06,030 --> 00:15:08,864
And she was angry
with her mother.

263
00:15:08,950 --> 00:15:12,660
Whitney moved out as soon as
she was 18 years old.

264
00:15:12,745 --> 00:15:16,864
I don't think Cissy even knew
where she moved to.

265
00:15:16,958 --> 00:15:18,745
We had a good, tight-knit family,

266
00:15:18,835 --> 00:15:21,543
but there were always
a lot of secrets in our lives.

267
00:15:21,629 --> 00:15:23,416
You know,
there were a lot of secrets.

268
00:15:23,506 --> 00:15:26,294
When you don't resolve things,
you don't deal with things,

269
00:15:26,384 --> 00:15:28,671
they never go away.

270
00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:30,548
They never go away.

271
00:15:37,019 --> 00:15:39,102
When I first started
working with her,

272
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she was modelling...

273
00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:45,439
...and she hated it because she knew
that she was gonna be a singer.

274
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That's what she knew.

275
00:15:46,988 --> 00:15:49,150
What did she like to do?

276
00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,732
She liked to sleep.

277
00:15:51,826 --> 00:15:53,317
She liked to party.

278
00:15:53,411 --> 00:15:54,993
She liked to hang out
with Robyn.

279
00:15:55,079 --> 00:15:57,571
And she liked her cats.

280
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She had a cat named Misty Blue.

281
00:16:01,544 --> 00:16:03,627
It was obvious
that John and Cissy

282
00:16:03,713 --> 00:16:06,547
saw an opportunity
in Whitney.

283
00:16:06,632 --> 00:16:09,545
The plan was
to get her a record deal,

284
00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:11,718
but they didn't rush.

285
00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:15,172
For a long time she was
just singing background

286
00:16:15,266 --> 00:16:17,474
in Cissy's show.

287
00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,553
At that time, there was a teenage star

288
00:16:20,646 --> 00:16:24,139
rising the charts,
and Whitney was angry.

289
00:16:24,233 --> 00:16:29,069
She'd literally said she could
do that ten times better...

290
00:16:29,155 --> 00:16:31,112
and her parents
were holding her back.

291
00:16:31,199 --> 00:16:33,282
I sat down with her
at the McDonald's

292
00:16:33,367 --> 00:16:35,029
across the street
from their home

293
00:16:35,119 --> 00:16:38,863
to explain to her the music
that she was envious of

294
00:16:38,956 --> 00:16:40,743
was fad music...

295
00:16:40,833 --> 00:16:43,576
and what her parents
were preparing her for

296
00:16:43,669 --> 00:16:45,911
was legacy music.

297
00:16:46,005 --> 00:16:47,667
My mother was grooming her.

298
00:16:47,757 --> 00:16:51,296
When I look back, I remember
my mother grooming her.

299
00:17:06,859 --> 00:17:10,102
Is it true that you were
sort of tricked into

300
00:17:10,196 --> 00:17:12,108
doing a solo performance?

301
00:17:12,198 --> 00:17:15,908
We were playing at this great
iconic R&B club in New York

302
00:17:15,993 --> 00:17:17,200
called Mikell's.

303
00:17:17,286 --> 00:17:19,369
Cissy called Whitney...

304
00:17:19,455 --> 00:17:21,492
She said, "Whitney, I can't sing."

305
00:17:21,582 --> 00:17:23,744
She wasn't gonna be able
to do the show at Mikell's.

306
00:17:23,834 --> 00:17:26,497
My mom says, "You gotta do the
show. I can't let this gig go."

307
00:17:26,587 --> 00:17:29,330
I go, "Oh, my God,
I can't do this, I'm 16... 17."

308
00:17:29,423 --> 00:17:32,916
And it was packed,
and she was adorable

309
00:17:33,010 --> 00:17:37,345
because she basically mimicked
her mom's everything,

310
00:17:37,431 --> 00:17:40,640
her patter. And just
substituted her own name

311
00:17:40,726 --> 00:17:43,639
for... you know,
"Thanks for coming to see Cissy."

312
00:17:43,729 --> 00:17:45,891
She'd go, "Thanks for coming out
to hear Whitney."

313
00:17:51,988 --> 00:17:55,732
I remember feeling like
a tornado, like a wind,

314
00:17:55,825 --> 00:17:58,408
a monsoon of rain and wind
just hit me

315
00:17:58,494 --> 00:18:00,235
and, like, was just
throwing me back.

316
00:18:00,329 --> 00:18:03,447
That's how blown away I was
by this girl's voice.

317
00:18:03,541 --> 00:18:05,498
I'd never heard
anything like it.

318
00:18:13,551 --> 00:18:20,515
♪ I am ♪

319
00:18:24,186 --> 00:18:27,850
♪ I'm trying to ♪

320
00:18:27,940 --> 00:18:31,604
So next day she calls,
she says, "Hey, how you doing?"

321
00:18:31,694 --> 00:18:33,856
I said, "You." I said,
"What's wrong with you?

322
00:18:33,946 --> 00:18:35,482
You were sick."
She goes, "No.

323
00:18:35,573 --> 00:18:38,065
I just wanted to see
if you could cut it."

324
00:18:46,876 --> 00:18:49,493
She blew the roof off the place.

325
00:18:52,548 --> 00:18:55,882
And after that,
we started to seriously court

326
00:18:55,968 --> 00:18:58,426
the record companies.

327
00:18:58,512 --> 00:19:01,004
At that time,
there were no singers...

328
00:19:01,098 --> 00:19:04,512
that just stood up and sang,

329
00:19:04,602 --> 00:19:07,140
a mic and a light,
you know.

330
00:19:07,229 --> 00:19:08,561
There were bands.

331
00:19:08,648 --> 00:19:10,355
What she was doing,

332
00:19:10,441 --> 00:19:12,524
it wasn't something
that the record industry

333
00:19:12,610 --> 00:19:16,524
was interested in,
but bit by bit we got offers.

334
00:19:16,614 --> 00:19:19,448
Eventually, the two labels
offering good deals

335
00:19:19,533 --> 00:19:22,822
were Elektra,
which was Bruce Lundvall,

336
00:19:22,912 --> 00:19:25,029
and Arista,
which was Clive Davis.

337
00:19:25,122 --> 00:19:29,162
Every night, one of the labels
would come down to the show.

338
00:19:29,251 --> 00:19:32,244
The next day, one of
the offers would get bigger.

339
00:19:32,338 --> 00:19:34,250
And the next night,
Bruce Lundvall

340
00:19:34,340 --> 00:19:36,582
would come down
to the show with flowers.

341
00:19:36,676 --> 00:19:39,840
The next night, Clive would
come back again with flowers,

342
00:19:39,929 --> 00:19:41,670
and then the offer
would get bigger.

343
00:19:41,764 --> 00:19:45,383
She was innocent-looking,
yet soulful.

344
00:19:45,476 --> 00:19:49,220
Her voice was like no voice
I had ever heard.

345
00:19:49,313 --> 00:19:54,024
When she stepped forward to do
"The Greatest Love OfAll,"

346
00:19:54,110 --> 00:19:56,443
I was totally knocked out.

347
00:19:56,529 --> 00:19:59,772
Whitney found meaning
in that song that I was sure

348
00:19:59,865 --> 00:20:02,403
even the composers
didn't know were there.

349
00:20:04,078 --> 00:20:05,910
♪ The children ♪

350
00:20:07,581 --> 00:20:09,573
♪ Are our future ♪

351
00:20:11,877 --> 00:20:15,587
♪ Teach them well and ♪

352
00:20:16,465 --> 00:20:19,583
♪ Let them ♪

353
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:25,135
♪ Lead the way ♪

354
00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:28,308
The two offers were pretty even.

355
00:20:28,394 --> 00:20:29,976
But we decided
to go with Clive.

356
00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:32,270
♪ Show them all... ♪

357
00:20:32,356 --> 00:20:35,349
You know, you get that spine tingle...

358
00:20:35,443 --> 00:20:37,730
when you know
you're in the presence

359
00:20:37,820 --> 00:20:39,903
of somebody very special.

360
00:20:39,989 --> 00:20:41,525
And that genius,

361
00:20:41,615 --> 00:20:44,073
that vocal
interpretive genius,

362
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,324
had a profound impact on me.

363
00:20:47,413 --> 00:20:50,247
♪ Give them a sense... ♪

364
00:20:50,332 --> 00:20:53,325
The urban legend
that Clive created Whitney

365
00:20:53,419 --> 00:20:55,251
is really not true.

366
00:20:55,337 --> 00:20:56,999
Clive packaged it all,

367
00:20:57,089 --> 00:21:00,628
but if anyone created
Whitney's taste, it was Cissy.

368
00:21:00,718 --> 00:21:04,007
That's where Whitney got
her influences from.

369
00:21:04,096 --> 00:21:06,429
♪ Easier ♪

370
00:21:08,476 --> 00:21:09,808
♪ Let... ♪

371
00:21:09,894 --> 00:21:12,227
John and Cissy had understood

372
00:21:12,313 --> 00:21:15,181
that to be successful
in America

373
00:21:15,274 --> 00:21:16,936
as an African American,

374
00:21:17,026 --> 00:21:20,064
to be successful
in the larger culture,

375
00:21:20,154 --> 00:21:22,316
you've got to learn the ways
of the culture,

376
00:21:22,406 --> 00:21:24,193
speak the language
of the culture,

377
00:21:24,283 --> 00:21:26,115
wear the clothing
of the culture.

378
00:21:27,995 --> 00:21:31,238
You have to have
double consciousness,

379
00:21:31,332 --> 00:21:33,324
and that can cause you
to wonder,

380
00:21:33,417 --> 00:21:35,329
"Who is the real me?

381
00:21:35,419 --> 00:21:40,414
Am I an extension of that,
or is that an extension of me?"

382
00:21:40,508 --> 00:21:42,795
There was Lena Horne.
There's Dionne Warwick,

383
00:21:42,885 --> 00:21:45,923
but if the mantle is to pass
to somebody who's 19,

384
00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:48,847
who's elegant, who's sensuous,
who's innocent,

385
00:21:48,933 --> 00:21:51,175
who's got
an incredible range of talent,

386
00:21:51,268 --> 00:21:54,056
but guts and soul
at the same time,

387
00:21:54,146 --> 00:21:56,354
it will be Whitney Houston,
in my opinion.

388
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,103
She also happens
to be a model.

389
00:21:59,193 --> 00:22:01,025
Yes, she is.
She's a beautiful girl.

390
00:22:01,111 --> 00:22:05,856
And her poise doesn't hurt,
but it's her natural charm.

391
00:22:05,950 --> 00:22:08,363
I mean, you either got it,
or you don't have it.

392
00:22:08,452 --> 00:22:10,034
- She's got it.
- She got it.

393
00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,703
Wait till you hear her.
Here's Whitney Houston.

394
00:22:19,547 --> 00:22:22,585
♪ When I think of home ♪

395
00:22:24,051 --> 00:22:26,589
♪ I think of a place ♪

396
00:22:28,389 --> 00:22:33,305
♪ Where there's
Love overflowing ♪

397
00:22:35,271 --> 00:22:38,105
♪ I wish I was home ♪

398
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,938
♪ I wish I was back there ♪

399
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,064
♪ With the things ♪

400
00:22:47,157 --> 00:22:49,820
♪ I've been knowing ♪

401
00:22:49,910 --> 00:22:53,244
♪ Oh, I know
You're listening, God ♪

402
00:22:53,330 --> 00:22:58,291
♪ So won't you please try
Not to make it hard to know ♪

403
00:22:58,377 --> 00:23:00,664
♪ I shouldn't believe
Everything ♪

404
00:23:00,754 --> 00:23:03,462
♪ Everything that I see ♪

405
00:23:05,342 --> 00:23:10,713
♪ A world full of love ♪

406
00:23:10,806 --> 00:23:12,672
♪ Like yours, like ♪

407
00:23:12,766 --> 00:23:18,103
♪ Like mine ♪

408
00:23:18,188 --> 00:23:25,061
♪ Like home ♪

409
00:23:25,696 --> 00:23:29,940
♪ Home ♪

410
00:23:40,210 --> 00:23:43,044
There's a lot of competition.
What makes you think

411
00:23:43,130 --> 00:23:45,372
you're gonna beat the odds
with your album?

412
00:23:45,466 --> 00:23:47,298
God gave me something
really great,

413
00:23:47,384 --> 00:23:49,091
and he doesn't give it
to everybody.

414
00:23:49,178 --> 00:23:52,342
And since I decided
to spread it worldwide,

415
00:23:52,431 --> 00:23:54,172
I think that
I'm gonna beat it. Heh.

416
00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:55,757
♪ Ah ♪

417
00:23:58,395 --> 00:23:59,886
♪ Yeah ♪

418
00:24:00,564 --> 00:24:02,271
♪ Woo! ♪

419
00:24:04,735 --> 00:24:06,601
♪ Hey, yeah ♪

420
00:24:06,695 --> 00:24:08,857
♪ Ah ♪

421
00:24:08,948 --> 00:24:10,689
♪ Yeah ♪

422
00:24:12,034 --> 00:24:15,027
♪ Clock strikes
Upon the hour ♪

423
00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,739
♪ And the sun
Begins to fade ♪

424
00:24:18,832 --> 00:24:19,868
Whitney Houston!

425
00:24:19,959 --> 00:24:21,370
♪ Still enough time ♪

426
00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:23,122
♪ To figure out ♪

427
00:24:23,212 --> 00:24:25,955
♪ How to chase
My blues away ♪

428
00:24:26,048 --> 00:24:27,914
Whitney Houston!

429
00:24:28,008 --> 00:24:31,752
♪ I've done all right
Up till now ♪

430
00:24:31,845 --> 00:24:35,555
♪ It's the light of day
That shows me how ♪

431
00:24:35,641 --> 00:24:38,384
♪ And when the night falls ♪

432
00:24:38,477 --> 00:24:41,185
♪ The loneliness calls ♪

433
00:24:42,481 --> 00:24:45,269
♪ Oh, I wanna dance
With somebody ♪

434
00:24:46,860 --> 00:24:50,479
♪ I wanna feel the heat
With somebody ♪

435
00:24:50,572 --> 00:24:53,440
♪ Yeah, I wanna dance
With somebody ♪

436
00:24:54,994 --> 00:24:58,078
♪ With somebody
Who loves me ♪

437
00:24:58,163 --> 00:25:01,497
♪ Oh, I wanna dance
With somebody ♪

438
00:25:03,085 --> 00:25:06,374
♪ I wanna feel the heat ♪

439
00:25:06,463 --> 00:25:09,547
♪ Yeah, I wanna dance
With somebody ♪

440
00:25:11,010 --> 00:25:14,469
♪ With somebody
Who loves me ♪

441
00:25:14,555 --> 00:25:17,389
♪ I need a man
Who'll take a chance ♪

442
00:25:17,474 --> 00:25:21,764
♪ On a love that burns
Hot enough to last ♪

443
00:25:21,854 --> 00:25:24,972
♪ So when the night falls ♪

444
00:25:25,065 --> 00:25:28,775
♪ My lonely heart calls ♪

445
00:25:28,861 --> 00:25:33,105
♪ Oh, I wanna dance
With somebody ♪

446
00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:35,781
♪ I wanna feel the heat
With somebody ♪

447
00:25:36,952 --> 00:25:40,116
♪ Yeah, I wanna dance
With somebody ♪

448
00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:44,241
♪ With somebody
Who loves me ♪

449
00:25:44,334 --> 00:25:46,246
♪ Don'tcha wanna dance?
Say you wanna dance ♪

450
00:25:46,336 --> 00:25:48,077
♪ Don'tcha wanna dance? ♪
♪ Dance ♪

451
00:25:48,172 --> 00:25:50,380
♪ Don'tcha wanna dance?
Say you wanna dance ♪

452
00:25:50,466 --> 00:25:52,128
♪ Don'tcha wanna dance? ♪
♪ Dance ♪

453
00:25:52,217 --> 00:25:55,176
♪ Don'tcha wanna dance?
Say you wanna dance ♪

454
00:25:55,262 --> 00:25:57,345
♪ Ah-ha ♪
♪ Dance ♪

455
00:25:57,431 --> 00:26:01,015
♪ With somebody
Who loves me ♪

456
00:26:01,101 --> 00:26:02,683
The meteoric rise to superstar.

457
00:26:02,770 --> 00:26:04,261
Seven consecutive...

458
00:26:04,354 --> 00:26:05,954
More consecutive number one hits

459
00:26:06,023 --> 00:26:07,605
than Elvis or The Beatles.

460
00:26:07,691 --> 00:26:09,557
Most successful debut solo album!

461
00:26:09,651 --> 00:26:13,270
- Platinum six times over.
- Heartbeat of America.

462
00:26:20,788 --> 00:26:23,952
Jack, did you ever find
this one here on the street?

463
00:26:24,041 --> 00:26:26,624
- Many times.
- How much was she?

464
00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:28,952
She was simple.
When Whitney was at home,

465
00:26:29,046 --> 00:26:30,912
Whitney wouldn't even
sleep in her bedroom.

466
00:26:31,006 --> 00:26:34,545
She would sleep on the couch
in the family room and watch TV.

467
00:26:34,635 --> 00:26:36,046
You'd see her out there,

468
00:26:36,136 --> 00:26:38,594
making herself a little
pallet on the couch,

469
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,013
and that's where
she would sleep at.

470
00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:45,014
Very simple.
Very, very simple.

471
00:26:45,104 --> 00:26:49,439
It was almost like...
she became Whitney Houston

472
00:26:49,525 --> 00:26:52,393
when it was time for her
to get on stage.

473
00:26:52,486 --> 00:26:56,480
And when she came off,
you know, she became Nippy again.

474
00:26:56,573 --> 00:26:58,610
What about a boyfriend?
Anybody special?

475
00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:00,783
- No, not at the moment. No.
- Oh.

476
00:27:00,869 --> 00:27:03,327
So who do you think about

477
00:27:03,413 --> 00:27:05,245
when you're singing
something like that?

478
00:27:05,332 --> 00:27:06,823
People. People in general.

479
00:27:06,917 --> 00:27:09,500
- She's saving it.
- Hey!

480
00:27:09,586 --> 00:27:11,873
What's going on between you
and Eddie Murphy?

481
00:27:11,964 --> 00:27:13,580
There's no deep
intimate feelings?

482
00:27:13,674 --> 00:27:16,462
There are deep feelings.
And sometimes we are intimate.

483
00:27:16,552 --> 00:27:18,088
Whoa.

484
00:27:18,178 --> 00:27:20,670
Most recently,
the gossip magazines report

485
00:27:20,764 --> 00:27:23,507
Houston and NFL quarterback
Randall Cunningham

486
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,138
are an item
and ready to marry.

487
00:27:26,228 --> 00:27:28,390
Do you think she liked sex?

488
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,813
Yes, she did. She talked about it.

489
00:27:30,899 --> 00:27:34,688
She liked it way more than
I needed to know.

490
00:27:34,778 --> 00:27:36,314
Yes.

491
00:27:36,405 --> 00:27:39,694
To the point
I was, like, scared for her,

492
00:27:39,783 --> 00:27:42,321
so I actually bought her
a vibrator

493
00:27:42,411 --> 00:27:44,619
for Christmas one year.

494
00:27:44,705 --> 00:27:48,119
You know, you're a celebrity,
and you're a woman and you...

495
00:27:48,208 --> 00:27:49,915
She couldn't just
date anybody.

496
00:27:50,002 --> 00:27:52,085
You didn't know
if these people were honest,

497
00:27:52,171 --> 00:27:56,131
and they're getting high.
I'm like, "If you wanna...

498
00:27:56,216 --> 00:27:59,425
have sex and nobody's there,
or what... take this."

499
00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:02,595
I heard Robert De Niro
was following you all over.

500
00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:04,047
He'd been on my case.

501
00:28:04,141 --> 00:28:06,098
He'd been sweating me
for a little while.

502
00:28:06,185 --> 00:28:08,552
Let me break that down.
He was chasing this woman.

503
00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:11,137
The one that she might have
gotten closest to

504
00:28:11,231 --> 00:28:13,564
maybe thinking
she was gonna marry...

505
00:28:13,650 --> 00:28:15,266
could have been
Brad Johnson.

506
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:19,104
Can you imagine being
a 30-year-old single guy,

507
00:28:19,198 --> 00:28:21,235
living in New York City,
and you're in your car,

508
00:28:21,325 --> 00:28:22,987
headed up
the West Side Highway

509
00:28:23,076 --> 00:28:25,013
to pick up Whitney Houston
to take her out for dinner.

510
00:28:25,037 --> 00:28:28,747
And it's 1987, and you just feel like
you're on top of the world.

511
00:28:28,832 --> 00:28:31,370
I don't know why I like him.

512
00:28:32,002 --> 00:28:33,334
I just do.

513
00:28:40,427 --> 00:28:43,386
Just a very sweet, somewhat shy...

514
00:28:43,472 --> 00:28:44,929
I hesitate to say "innocent"

515
00:28:45,015 --> 00:28:47,052
because she had an old soul.

516
00:28:47,142 --> 00:28:49,179
She was wise in a way.

517
00:28:49,269 --> 00:28:51,386
But then she was
still this 23-year-old girl

518
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,018
who would, you know,
grab your arm in a scary movie

519
00:28:54,107 --> 00:28:56,975
and, you know,
curl up right next to you.

520
00:28:57,069 --> 00:29:00,608
I never saw
a dark moment with her.

521
00:29:00,697 --> 00:29:03,690
She just laughed.
She had this great laugh,

522
00:29:03,784 --> 00:29:05,992
and she would kind of
squint her eyes.

523
00:29:06,078 --> 00:29:08,491
♪ I've been waiting
For the phone to ring... ♪

524
00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:10,697
Robyn was always
very friendly to me.

525
00:29:10,791 --> 00:29:13,704
She was protective, but I felt
it was appropriate.

526
00:29:13,794 --> 00:29:15,831
She didn't know me,
and of the people

527
00:29:15,921 --> 00:29:19,460
close to Whitney,
she was the closest.

528
00:29:19,549 --> 00:29:23,168
I was 16 and we were
working at summerjobs.

529
00:29:23,262 --> 00:29:24,753
I remember thinking, "Wow,

530
00:29:24,846 --> 00:29:26,929
this is really gonna be
a trip this summer."

531
00:29:27,015 --> 00:29:29,883
I don't have any friends."
And then here comes Robyn

532
00:29:29,977 --> 00:29:32,560
with this beautiful,
beautiful afro.

533
00:29:32,646 --> 00:29:34,512
She was tall
and very statuesque,

534
00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:36,598
and I was like, "Wow, man."

535
00:29:36,692 --> 00:29:39,526
She stood up for me,
and I remember thinking:

536
00:29:39,611 --> 00:29:42,479
"I've known this person
seems like all my life."

537
00:29:44,199 --> 00:29:46,942
At 18, she left her parents' home,

538
00:29:47,035 --> 00:29:49,448
and Whitney and Robyn
moved in together.

539
00:29:49,538 --> 00:29:51,325
Tell me about Robyn Crawford.

540
00:29:51,415 --> 00:29:53,907
I don't know... What do you want to know
about Robyn Crawford?

541
00:29:54,001 --> 00:29:56,414
- Who was she?
- Robyn was a nobody.

542
00:29:56,503 --> 00:29:57,960
She was a nobody.

543
00:29:58,046 --> 00:30:00,914
She was an opportunist.
She was a wannabe.

544
00:30:01,008 --> 00:30:05,343
She was a nobody, really. And she
happened to involve herself with Nippy,

545
00:30:05,429 --> 00:30:07,921
you know, for whatever
reasons, you know.

546
00:30:08,015 --> 00:30:09,631
I've never seen them
do anything,

547
00:30:09,725 --> 00:30:12,559
but I knew that she was, uh...
She was something

548
00:30:12,644 --> 00:30:15,637
that I didn't want my sister
to be involved with.

549
00:30:15,731 --> 00:30:17,814
It was evil. It was wicked.

550
00:30:17,899 --> 00:30:22,894
♪ Happy birthday Dear Robyn ♪

551
00:30:24,072 --> 00:30:30,911
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

552
00:30:39,087 --> 00:30:41,670
I knew she was a lesbian.
Yes, yes, I did.

553
00:30:41,757 --> 00:30:44,170
For sure I knew.
I was the first one to know her.

554
00:30:44,259 --> 00:30:46,046
I knew what she was.

555
00:30:46,136 --> 00:30:48,970
And I tried to tell my sister
to leave her alone.

556
00:30:51,058 --> 00:30:54,051
Whitney and her relationships.
Okay, so...

557
00:30:54,144 --> 00:30:56,852
As far as Whitney
and Robyn...

558
00:30:56,938 --> 00:31:00,602
the relationship
was her safety net.

559
00:31:00,692 --> 00:31:02,934
- Hi, Robbie.
- Hi.

560
00:31:04,780 --> 00:31:06,863
That was a whole separate world

561
00:31:06,948 --> 00:31:10,112
from who she needed
to be in the public,

562
00:31:10,202 --> 00:31:12,319
for her parents, her family.

563
00:31:12,412 --> 00:31:15,325
The other relationships
outside of that,

564
00:31:15,415 --> 00:31:19,375
be it Eddie Murphy or Randall
Cunningham or Brad Johnson,

565
00:31:19,461 --> 00:31:22,875
she had those because
those were expected of her.

566
00:31:22,964 --> 00:31:25,456
And she liked men too.

567
00:31:25,550 --> 00:31:30,841
What they say now, in this time,
is that she's fluid.

568
00:31:30,931 --> 00:31:35,050
She flows. She goes whatever
way she goes. She loves.

569
00:31:36,311 --> 00:31:37,677
What?

570
00:31:37,771 --> 00:31:40,479
Robyn, I'll kick your camera
and break it.

571
00:31:40,565 --> 00:31:42,557
- Robyn!
- I wouldn't do that.

572
00:31:42,651 --> 00:31:45,268
Robyn!

573
00:31:45,362 --> 00:31:47,854
When I first started
working with Whitney,

574
00:31:47,948 --> 00:31:51,908
the press loved her.
She was the black princess.

575
00:31:51,993 --> 00:31:53,450
That also included,

576
00:31:53,537 --> 00:31:56,154
"Oh, and look how great
her family life is,

577
00:31:56,248 --> 00:31:59,741
and look how wonderful her
parents are and her siblings."

578
00:31:59,835 --> 00:32:02,327
I mean, for years
people didn't even know

579
00:32:02,421 --> 00:32:04,333
that John and Cissy
were divorced.

580
00:32:04,423 --> 00:32:06,585
You know, they showed up
at events together,

581
00:32:06,675 --> 00:32:09,213
playacting
the perfect family.

582
00:32:09,302 --> 00:32:11,715
But then stories
started to appear

583
00:32:11,805 --> 00:32:13,967
about Whitney and Robyn.

584
00:32:14,057 --> 00:32:16,094
Not too long ago, I was in Detroit.

585
00:32:16,184 --> 00:32:17,846
I did a radio show
for over an hour.

586
00:32:17,936 --> 00:32:20,349
About 30 calls came in.
They really just wanted to know,

587
00:32:20,439 --> 00:32:22,305
"Well, what is the story
of Whitney?

588
00:32:22,399 --> 00:32:24,186
Is she gay or is she not?"

589
00:32:24,276 --> 00:32:27,735
Whitney is not gay, ahem.
That is the story on that.

590
00:32:27,821 --> 00:32:30,029
The only gayness I feel
is when I'm happy, honey.

591
00:32:30,115 --> 00:32:32,075
- That's it.
- And that's all that really matters.

592
00:32:32,117 --> 00:32:33,528
That's all that matters, yes.

593
00:32:33,618 --> 00:32:36,486
No one in this organization

594
00:32:36,580 --> 00:32:38,572
wanted anything to disrupt

595
00:32:38,665 --> 00:32:42,124
this bullet train
that was Whitney Houston.

596
00:32:42,210 --> 00:32:43,872
John didn't like it.

597
00:32:43,962 --> 00:32:46,375
He painted this picture
for her to be

598
00:32:46,465 --> 00:32:49,958
this pristine teenage girl,
no faults.

599
00:32:50,051 --> 00:32:52,213
That was the image
he tried to create.

600
00:32:52,304 --> 00:32:55,763
And the way he looked at it,
that was a black eye.

601
00:32:55,849 --> 00:32:58,683
Some of the family
might have been homophobic,

602
00:32:58,768 --> 00:33:01,556
but, really,
it was about control.

603
00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:04,389
Robyn was the only one that
could get Whitney out of bed.

604
00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:06,850
She was the only one
that Whitney would listen to.

605
00:33:06,943 --> 00:33:09,435
And anyone who had
influence was a threat.

606
00:33:11,323 --> 00:33:13,440
Did John ever try
and get rid of Robyn?

607
00:33:13,533 --> 00:33:16,025
- He talked about it.
- What would he say?

608
00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:18,532
He said, if he could,
he would break them up,

609
00:33:18,622 --> 00:33:20,454
any way he can.

610
00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:22,907
He wanted somebody
to scare her.

611
00:33:26,671 --> 00:33:28,458
We refrained from that

612
00:33:28,548 --> 00:33:31,336
because you never know what
the outcome is going to be

613
00:33:31,426 --> 00:33:34,760
when you send people like that,
you know, to do something.

614
00:33:34,846 --> 00:33:36,929
You just never know
what's going to happen.

615
00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:40,179
What did you make of John?

616
00:33:40,268 --> 00:33:45,059
He could be very charming,
but he was an opportunist.

617
00:33:45,148 --> 00:33:49,734
And so he didn't hesitate
to get my dad out of there.

618
00:33:49,819 --> 00:33:52,277
He wanted to be
running the show.

619
00:33:52,364 --> 00:33:55,277
He didn't like the idea
of anyone else being in charge?

620
00:33:55,367 --> 00:33:57,780
No, he was head, you know,
he was Captain Houston.

621
00:33:57,869 --> 00:34:01,328
Shit, are you kidding me?

622
00:34:01,414 --> 00:34:03,656
He loved being a boss.

623
00:34:03,750 --> 00:34:06,367
You had to kiss the ring,
and I mean that literally.

624
00:34:06,461 --> 00:34:08,202
He had a big-ass gold ring.

625
00:34:08,296 --> 00:34:10,233
You're saying literally he would
ask people to kiss his ring?

626
00:34:10,257 --> 00:34:13,000
Yeah, exactly. I'll never forget it.

627
00:34:13,093 --> 00:34:15,210
And they did.

628
00:34:15,303 --> 00:34:17,215
Nobody said, "Kiss my ass."

629
00:34:17,305 --> 00:34:21,470
I was young, but you still have
to question, you know,

630
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,802
when someone says to you...

631
00:34:25,772 --> 00:34:27,138
"You know you made it

632
00:34:27,232 --> 00:34:29,269
when you got white people
working for you."

633
00:34:29,359 --> 00:34:31,817
A lot of times
I look at Whitney,

634
00:34:31,903 --> 00:34:34,566
and I can still see her
in braids,

635
00:34:34,656 --> 00:34:37,990
pigtails... walking around.

636
00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:42,116
It's hard for me
to deal with her as a star.

637
00:34:42,205 --> 00:34:44,037
It's very hard for me
to deal with her.

638
00:34:44,124 --> 00:34:47,993
I talk to her as a daughter.
She talks to me as her father.

639
00:34:48,086 --> 00:34:49,543
Suddenly he had a dream job.

640
00:34:49,629 --> 00:34:53,589
From $500 a week
to $500,000...

641
00:34:53,675 --> 00:34:56,008
...a year.

642
00:34:56,094 --> 00:34:59,428
Hi, Whitney.

643
00:34:59,514 --> 00:35:02,723
- Was that a good show, Daddy?
- That was a great show.

644
00:35:02,809 --> 00:35:06,223
John Houston was
a civil servant in New Jersey,

645
00:35:06,313 --> 00:35:09,101
running over to Manhattan,
hanging out in the clubs,

646
00:35:09,190 --> 00:35:11,102
trying to find
some people to manage.

647
00:35:11,192 --> 00:35:13,650
And then all of a sudden,
his daughter...

648
00:35:13,737 --> 00:35:17,026
becomes one of the biggest
stars in the world,

649
00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:19,653
so John became a king too.

650
00:35:19,743 --> 00:35:21,700
And John loved the fact

651
00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:25,450
that he could call
anybody in Hollywood,

652
00:35:25,540 --> 00:35:28,203
and they would take
the meeting immediately.

653
00:35:28,293 --> 00:35:31,707
It's a power he never thought
he would ever have.

654
00:35:33,715 --> 00:35:36,128
Once John took over,
everybody in the family

655
00:35:36,217 --> 00:35:37,958
except Cissy
was on the payroll,

656
00:35:38,053 --> 00:35:41,637
and all the decisions
were just about,

657
00:35:41,723 --> 00:35:44,841
you know, the money.

658
00:35:44,934 --> 00:35:47,426
Just playing a few cards here.
So there you go.

659
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,263
Try and do a couple of hands.

660
00:35:50,357 --> 00:35:52,895
I remember her
putting me and my brother

661
00:35:52,984 --> 00:35:56,352
on the payroll when we didn't
even work for her at the time.

662
00:35:58,281 --> 00:36:01,524
So we got a check
every week in the mail, $200.

663
00:36:01,618 --> 00:36:03,484
And then we went on tour.

664
00:36:03,578 --> 00:36:05,365
And from there,
we got a salary,

665
00:36:05,455 --> 00:36:08,994
and then we had a retainer
when we weren't working.

666
00:36:09,084 --> 00:36:11,542
She felt that
when you love somebody,

667
00:36:11,628 --> 00:36:13,189
when they're family,
this is what you do.

668
00:36:13,213 --> 00:36:15,045
This is how
we were brought up.

669
00:36:15,131 --> 00:36:17,919
Our 6'5" senior from
East Orange, New Jersey,

670
00:36:18,009 --> 00:36:21,047
number 24, Gary Garland.

671
00:36:21,137 --> 00:36:24,756
Gary had just finished
a career in the NBA.

672
00:36:24,849 --> 00:36:27,057
He was drafted
to the Denver Nuggets,

673
00:36:27,143 --> 00:36:29,601
and it was stated
in the papers

674
00:36:29,688 --> 00:36:31,304
that he was dropped
from the team

675
00:36:31,398 --> 00:36:34,106
for failing a drug test.

676
00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:35,979
That must have been devastating.

677
00:36:36,069 --> 00:36:37,685
I went through hell.

678
00:36:37,779 --> 00:36:39,896
I was depressed
for nine months.

679
00:36:39,989 --> 00:36:41,275
I'm talking about numb.

680
00:36:43,243 --> 00:36:46,031
Then '85 came,
that's when my sister became a star,

681
00:36:46,121 --> 00:36:48,738
and I started
singing with her.

682
00:36:48,832 --> 00:36:52,416
I wasn't Gary anymore.
I was Whitney's brother.

683
00:36:54,754 --> 00:36:56,666
For Gary, having to sing

684
00:36:56,756 --> 00:37:01,091
after having a basketball
career, was a letdown.

685
00:37:01,177 --> 00:37:05,467
On the outside, he wanted
to show he was having fun.

686
00:37:05,557 --> 00:37:07,799
I think he was dying inside.

687
00:37:07,892 --> 00:37:09,884
You get it? You get it now, right?

688
00:37:09,978 --> 00:37:12,140
After your two-beat freeze,
you go...

689
00:37:12,230 --> 00:37:14,893
♪ Joy ♪

690
00:37:14,983 --> 00:37:17,475
♪ Joy ♪

691
00:37:19,154 --> 00:37:22,522
Michael was the fun-loving
younger brother,

692
00:37:22,615 --> 00:37:24,823
had everyone laughing
all the time.

693
00:37:24,909 --> 00:37:28,073
He had a job
as the road manager,

694
00:37:28,163 --> 00:37:30,200
or tour manager,
something like that.

695
00:37:32,834 --> 00:37:34,791
It was a family affair, man.

696
00:37:45,597 --> 00:37:46,838
That's it.

697
00:37:50,393 --> 00:37:53,977
Ooh!

698
00:37:54,063 --> 00:37:56,976
All right, y'all. We're getting
ready for the first show.

699
00:37:57,066 --> 00:37:59,558
It was amazing.
We traveled all over the world.

700
00:37:59,652 --> 00:38:01,985
And we took care of Whitney,
me and my brother.

701
00:38:02,071 --> 00:38:05,109
We were her bodyguards.
We took care of her baggage.

702
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,943
We made sure she was safe,
and she was.

703
00:38:11,706 --> 00:38:14,574
The idea was that they
could watch over her,

704
00:38:14,667 --> 00:38:16,750
and they could protect her.

705
00:38:16,836 --> 00:38:18,702
But both of them were...

706
00:38:20,256 --> 00:38:21,963
you know, were doing drugs.

707
00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:26,761
I was using drugs...
deeply then.

708
00:38:26,846 --> 00:38:29,008
After being on tour
for five or six months,

709
00:38:29,098 --> 00:38:31,681
I come home, you know.

710
00:38:31,768 --> 00:38:34,681
I spent time with my family,
but most times I was running.

711
00:38:34,771 --> 00:38:38,230
A lot of parties to go to,
a lot of chicks...

712
00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:40,558
...a lot of drugs.

713
00:38:40,652 --> 00:38:44,862
You're Whitney's brother...
so the door is open.

714
00:38:44,948 --> 00:38:46,926
You probably interviewed
a whole bunch of motherfuckers

715
00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:49,863
I sat and got high with.
They know who they are.

716
00:38:51,913 --> 00:38:54,405
Whitney and I were very close,
like I said,

717
00:38:54,499 --> 00:38:56,240
and we spent
a lot of time together.

718
00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:58,747
And it wasn't like I was
ten years older than her,

719
00:38:58,837 --> 00:39:01,750
and I introduced her to drugs,
"Here, little girl." No.

720
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,174
We graduated from
marijuana together.

721
00:39:05,260 --> 00:39:08,298
She wanted to try it
after I tried it, and we tried it.

722
00:39:08,388 --> 00:39:10,630
If anything
was gonna be done,

723
00:39:10,723 --> 00:39:12,965
I was gonna be the one
to show her.

724
00:39:14,227 --> 00:39:17,061
Her age was probably
around 16.

725
00:39:19,899 --> 00:39:22,437
It was her birthday...

726
00:39:22,527 --> 00:39:26,316
and... I gave her a bag of weed...

727
00:39:27,615 --> 00:39:31,325
and a little toke
of some cocaine.

728
00:39:31,411 --> 00:39:35,155
I had fun,
and that's all that matters.

729
00:39:35,248 --> 00:39:37,661
Don't you know that?

730
00:39:37,750 --> 00:39:39,958
That it's about having fun?

731
00:39:40,044 --> 00:39:42,036
Did I have a lot of fun?

732
00:39:43,756 --> 00:39:46,169
I was the one
that went out and got drugs,

733
00:39:46,259 --> 00:39:48,751
you know, when we went
to different cities.

734
00:39:51,014 --> 00:39:53,176
'Sup?

735
00:39:53,266 --> 00:39:55,508
I got drugs in Japan.

736
00:39:55,602 --> 00:39:58,936
In Japan it's a no-no.
It's a taboo.

737
00:39:59,022 --> 00:40:01,435
Coming into the'80s,
everybody was doing it.

738
00:40:01,524 --> 00:40:03,607
It was out in the open.

739
00:40:03,693 --> 00:40:06,936
When you went to clubs,
it was right on the table.

740
00:40:07,030 --> 00:40:09,067
It was like... It was crazy.

741
00:40:09,157 --> 00:40:11,945
It was like...
Like it wasn't a bad word.

742
00:40:12,035 --> 00:40:15,119
Like it wasn't a bad thing,
you know what I'm saying?

743
00:40:15,204 --> 00:40:17,662
And...
little did you know.

744
00:40:18,541 --> 00:40:20,032
Straight up killer.

745
00:40:20,126 --> 00:40:22,584
Do not be like
the horse or the mule,

746
00:40:22,670 --> 00:40:24,252
which have no understanding

747
00:40:24,339 --> 00:40:27,582
but must be controlled
by bit and bridle,

748
00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:29,837
- or they will not come to you.
- Mm.

749
00:40:29,928 --> 00:40:31,464
Many are the woes
of the wicked,

750
00:40:31,554 --> 00:40:33,136
but the Lord's unfailing love

751
00:40:33,222 --> 00:40:35,214
surrounds the man
who trusts in Him.

752
00:40:35,308 --> 00:40:36,469
Thank you for that.

753
00:40:38,645 --> 00:40:41,763
♪ Be your baby tonight ♪

754
00:40:43,274 --> 00:40:46,733
Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

755
00:40:53,743 --> 00:40:55,234
And seven, eight.

756
00:40:55,328 --> 00:40:59,072
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.

757
00:40:59,165 --> 00:41:01,077
♪ You got the magic
And I gotta have it ♪

758
00:41:01,167 --> 00:41:03,409
♪ I don't want the pieces
I want every single part ♪

759
00:41:03,503 --> 00:41:05,244
♪ I'll be your angel
I'm ready and able ♪

760
00:41:05,338 --> 00:41:07,000
♪ Whatever you want is fine ♪

761
00:41:07,090 --> 00:41:09,377
♪ Whenever you're ready
Just call on your lady ♪

762
00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:13,882
♪ I'll be your baby tonight ♪

763
00:41:15,390 --> 00:41:17,256
It's time to chill.

764
00:41:17,350 --> 00:41:18,386
♪ But anyway ♪

765
00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:20,012
♪ My name is not Susan ♪

766
00:41:22,647 --> 00:41:25,139
On the dance floor.

767
00:41:25,233 --> 00:41:27,646
♪ And it goes a little
Something like this ♪

768
00:41:27,735 --> 00:41:29,192
♪ Who do you love? ♪

769
00:41:29,278 --> 00:41:31,065
♪ Say, who do you love? ♪

770
00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:33,192
♪ Say, who do you love? ♪

771
00:41:33,282 --> 00:41:35,365
♪ Say, who do you love? ♪

772
00:41:35,451 --> 00:41:37,738
♪ Say, who do you love? ♪

773
00:41:37,829 --> 00:41:39,821
♪ Who do you love? ♪

774
00:41:39,914 --> 00:41:41,621
♪ Say, who do you love? ♪

775
00:41:41,708 --> 00:41:43,449
♪ Say, who do you love? ♪

776
00:41:43,543 --> 00:41:45,660
♪ Say, who do you love? ♪

777
00:41:45,753 --> 00:41:47,619
♪ Say, who do you love? ♪

778
00:41:47,714 --> 00:41:49,546
♪ Say, who do you love? ♪

779
00:41:49,632 --> 00:41:51,840
♪ Say, who do you love? ♪

780
00:41:55,346 --> 00:41:56,587
- ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

781
00:41:56,681 --> 00:41:58,297
- ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

782
00:41:58,391 --> 00:41:59,632
- ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

783
00:41:59,726 --> 00:42:01,217
♪ I wanna know right now ♪

784
00:42:01,310 --> 00:42:02,676
♪ Oh, yeah ♪

785
00:42:02,770 --> 00:42:06,184
♪ Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah ♪

786
00:42:06,274 --> 00:42:10,268
♪ I wanna know who ♪

787
00:42:12,697 --> 00:42:15,781
You miss something
if you don't see her live.

788
00:42:15,867 --> 00:42:17,733
She could just let it go,

789
00:42:17,827 --> 00:42:20,444
maybe feel like
she was in church again.

790
00:42:20,997 --> 00:42:22,238
Thank you.

791
00:42:22,331 --> 00:42:25,199
Come on, let's go.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

792
00:42:25,293 --> 00:42:27,205
Come on.

793
00:42:27,295 --> 00:42:28,911
Watch yourself.

794
00:42:39,265 --> 00:42:42,008
It's kind of make you
wonder how a song like

795
00:42:42,101 --> 00:42:45,344
"Things That Make You Go Hmmmm"
could be a hit, huh?

796
00:43:04,624 --> 00:43:06,456
This we're gonna have to edit,
Mom.

797
00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:09,660
Well, let me let you
all know who that was.

798
00:43:09,754 --> 00:43:12,087
First of all...

799
00:43:12,173 --> 00:43:14,506
Put that...
Get out of here, Robyn!

800
00:43:19,514 --> 00:43:21,301
Cissy Houston talking, folks.

801
00:43:21,390 --> 00:43:23,473
Been in this business
for over 30 years.

802
00:43:23,559 --> 00:43:25,266
That's right.

803
00:43:31,943 --> 00:43:34,276
Never, Mom.

804
00:43:34,362 --> 00:43:36,149
Never change, baby.
Stay the same.

805
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,526
You're beautiful. Love ya.

806
00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:40,858
What was the business
like, Mrs. Houston,

807
00:43:40,952 --> 00:43:42,989
when you we were
very active and recording?

808
00:43:43,079 --> 00:43:45,241
- Hard.
- Hard?

809
00:44:12,233 --> 00:44:14,520
I don't wanna be in
a business that ain't true.

810
00:44:14,610 --> 00:44:16,693
I don't want to be in it
like that.

811
00:44:16,779 --> 00:44:17,940
Honey...

812
00:44:20,324 --> 00:44:24,819
I know, Mom, I know.
I know, Mom, I know.

813
00:44:24,912 --> 00:44:26,619
- I know.
- My baby.

814
00:44:26,706 --> 00:44:28,948
And I'm not gonna change.

815
00:44:29,041 --> 00:44:31,749
I'm not gonna do it.

816
00:44:31,836 --> 00:44:34,419
♪ I will not sell out ♪

817
00:44:34,505 --> 00:44:36,667
Don't sell out, kid.

818
00:44:37,675 --> 00:44:39,587
Don't sell out.

819
00:44:39,677 --> 00:44:42,465
Is it open?

820
00:44:46,017 --> 00:44:47,349
Ma, that's ugly.

821
00:45:09,749 --> 00:45:11,786
A lot of your black audience

822
00:45:11,876 --> 00:45:14,163
has been a little bit
critical in the last year

823
00:45:14,253 --> 00:45:16,119
about you singing songs
that were less

824
00:45:16,214 --> 00:45:18,331
in a soul tradition
or in a gospel tradition.

825
00:45:18,424 --> 00:45:20,666
And you went a little too far
to the pop side.

826
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,594
How do you feel
about that kind of criticism?

827
00:45:23,679 --> 00:45:26,387
I don't know.
What do they want?

828
00:45:26,474 --> 00:45:29,091
What do they want me to do?
I think music is music.

829
00:45:29,185 --> 00:45:30,767
You know? I mean,

830
00:45:30,853 --> 00:45:32,970
how do I sing more black,
or how do I sing...

831
00:45:33,064 --> 00:45:35,181
What am I doing that's
making me sound white?

832
00:45:35,274 --> 00:45:36,435
I don't understand.

833
00:45:36,525 --> 00:45:38,141
I'm singing music
from my heart,

834
00:45:38,236 --> 00:45:39,818
from my soul, and that's it.

835
00:45:41,781 --> 00:45:44,114
Al Sharpton, he's out protesting

836
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,691
with signs
in front of the hotel

837
00:45:45,785 --> 00:45:47,697
saying "Whitey" Whitney.

838
00:45:47,787 --> 00:45:50,370
At first she thought he was
saying Whitney Houston.

839
00:45:50,456 --> 00:45:52,601
She couldn't connect it until,
you know, it was really brought

840
00:45:52,625 --> 00:45:54,787
to her attention,
"No, he's calling you 'Whitey."'

841
00:45:54,877 --> 00:45:57,369
What is the deal
in the past

842
00:45:57,463 --> 00:46:00,922
when you've had the friction
at the Soul Train Awards?

843
00:46:01,008 --> 00:46:02,874
They booed me
at the Soul Train Awards.

844
00:46:02,969 --> 00:46:05,336
Yeah, and I'm not
exactly sure...

845
00:46:05,429 --> 00:46:07,796
You can't ask a whole crowd
what was that about?

846
00:46:07,890 --> 00:46:09,347
Yeah.

847
00:46:09,433 --> 00:46:12,301
Yeah, I wanted to say that
and some other things but...

848
00:46:12,395 --> 00:46:15,229
The nominees for Best R&B
Urban Contemporary Single

849
00:46:15,314 --> 00:46:16,725
by a Female are...

850
00:46:16,816 --> 00:46:20,935
♪ Now I know... ♪

851
00:46:21,028 --> 00:46:23,315
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go?"
Whitney Houston.

852
00:46:26,867 --> 00:46:28,654
She was so upset.

853
00:46:28,744 --> 00:46:31,452
She said to me,
"It would be one thing

854
00:46:31,539 --> 00:46:34,031
if they were booing me
because they didn't like

855
00:46:34,125 --> 00:46:36,367
the way I sing, Aunt Bae."

856
00:46:36,460 --> 00:46:38,292
She said,
"But they were booing me

857
00:46:38,379 --> 00:46:41,713
for something
altogether different."

858
00:46:41,799 --> 00:46:44,883
And I think it goes back
to her childhood

859
00:46:44,969 --> 00:46:47,336
when she was being bullied
in school.

860
00:46:47,430 --> 00:46:49,763
She was really
torn up about it.

861
00:46:49,849 --> 00:46:52,842
And I think the difference in
how the crowd reacted to me

862
00:46:52,935 --> 00:46:54,597
and how they reacted to her

863
00:46:54,687 --> 00:46:56,974
played a part
in our connection.

864
00:46:57,064 --> 00:46:58,521
It's not hard to figure out

865
00:46:58,607 --> 00:47:01,315
who the hottest young
solo male artist is.

866
00:47:01,402 --> 00:47:04,395
His name is Bobby Brown!

867
00:47:09,577 --> 00:47:11,944
Is this an awards show?

868
00:47:12,038 --> 00:47:14,576
Are you all ready to party?

869
00:47:16,417 --> 00:47:17,874
I was sitting
in the front row.

870
00:47:19,337 --> 00:47:21,670
- She just kept nudging me.
- Get busy!

871
00:47:21,756 --> 00:47:24,294
I said, "Excuse me."
She said, "Yeah."

872
00:47:26,135 --> 00:47:28,218
It was just really funny
how she said it,

873
00:47:28,304 --> 00:47:30,216
like, you know,
with this attitude.

874
00:47:32,308 --> 00:47:33,719
I was conceited at the time.

875
00:47:33,809 --> 00:47:37,098
- ♪ That's my prerogative ♪
- Listen here.

876
00:47:37,188 --> 00:47:40,022
♪ Well, they say I'm crazy ♪

877
00:47:40,107 --> 00:47:42,064
♪ I really don't care... ♪

878
00:47:42,151 --> 00:47:44,689
So then in walks Bobby Brown.

879
00:47:44,779 --> 00:47:48,113
He was black.
Absolutely for sure.

880
00:47:48,199 --> 00:47:49,781
He was straight.

881
00:47:49,867 --> 00:47:52,780
♪ Would you make me go
Unh, unh? ♪

882
00:47:52,870 --> 00:47:55,203
Even straighter than straight.

883
00:47:55,289 --> 00:47:58,248
People thought, "That's so odd.

884
00:47:58,334 --> 00:48:00,451
She's sophisticated,

885
00:48:00,544 --> 00:48:04,003
and he's unrefined,
that Bobby Brown."

886
00:48:04,090 --> 00:48:06,047
We're from the hood,

887
00:48:06,133 --> 00:48:09,592
and Bobby was a black boy
from the hood.

888
00:48:09,678 --> 00:48:13,217
The type my mother
always kept away from her.

889
00:48:13,307 --> 00:48:15,139
He's both of her brothers.

890
00:48:15,226 --> 00:48:16,842
All rolled into one.

891
00:48:18,687 --> 00:48:21,395
Bobby was a really funny and fun guy

892
00:48:21,482 --> 00:48:24,771
to hang around with, you know,
he made her laugh.

893
00:48:24,860 --> 00:48:28,979
Yeah, baby! Yeah, baby!

894
00:48:29,073 --> 00:48:31,941
She truly loved him.
She truly loved him.

895
00:48:34,286 --> 00:48:36,403
- Wait. I gotta make my wish.
- Shh.

896
00:48:40,918 --> 00:48:43,331
Wait!

897
00:48:46,173 --> 00:48:48,335
Yes!

898
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,756
Robert Barisford Brown,

899
00:48:52,847 --> 00:48:55,840
do you take this woman
to be your wedded wife,

900
00:48:55,933 --> 00:49:00,268
and do you solemnly promise
before God and these witnesses

901
00:49:00,354 --> 00:49:02,471
that you will love her
and comfort her,

902
00:49:02,565 --> 00:49:06,855
forsaking all others
for her alone?

903
00:49:06,944 --> 00:49:08,526
I do.

904
00:49:26,839 --> 00:49:31,129
I think that was a very
difficult time for Robyn.

905
00:49:33,637 --> 00:49:36,801
When you love someone,
you want the best for them,

906
00:49:36,891 --> 00:49:39,178
even if it's not
the best for you.

907
00:49:40,519 --> 00:49:44,604
You know that, "If I leave,

908
00:49:44,690 --> 00:49:47,524
I can't think of anyone
that would protect her

909
00:49:47,610 --> 00:49:50,853
from these landmines
that are all around."

910
00:49:55,534 --> 00:49:57,821
Whitney believed
that if she got married,

911
00:49:57,912 --> 00:49:59,574
everything would be
wonderful,

912
00:49:59,663 --> 00:50:01,825
and she'd have
this great family.

913
00:50:01,916 --> 00:50:06,251
She'd have her baby, and she'd
just live happily ever after.

914
00:50:08,339 --> 00:50:10,626
She absolutely had
that fairytale.

915
00:50:12,593 --> 00:50:17,964
To me, she was a little
girl wishing upon a star.

916
00:50:18,057 --> 00:50:21,016
She was always trying
to find her way back home.

917
00:50:23,896 --> 00:50:27,435
This here is
a photograph of us in Italy.

918
00:50:27,525 --> 00:50:30,188
It was a time when, you know,
they were just married.

919
00:50:30,277 --> 00:50:33,941
We was on honeymoon, and they
were into dressing alike.

920
00:50:34,031 --> 00:50:36,398
I guess that was
the thing at that time.

921
00:50:36,492 --> 00:50:40,031
She was extremely happy.

922
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,409
And looking forward to starting
her life with her husband.

923
00:50:47,753 --> 00:50:50,291
She called me
when she was on her honeymoon,

924
00:50:50,381 --> 00:50:51,838
and she said:

925
00:50:51,924 --> 00:50:57,670
"Aunt Bae, I didn't get
my period. I'm pregnant."

926
00:50:59,807 --> 00:51:02,140
Anyway, Krissi was born,

927
00:51:02,226 --> 00:51:05,060
and I'll never forget
that day.

928
00:51:05,145 --> 00:51:06,886
She came home early

929
00:51:06,981 --> 00:51:09,689
because she didn't want
to stay in the hospital.

930
00:51:09,775 --> 00:51:12,233
She came to the door,
and she was bent over.

931
00:51:12,319 --> 00:51:15,687
And she had Krissi
in her arm.

932
00:51:15,781 --> 00:51:17,693
And I said, "Nippy,
what are you doing?"

933
00:51:17,783 --> 00:51:21,072
She said, "Aunt Bae,
will you bathe her?"

934
00:51:21,161 --> 00:51:23,244
So I said,
"Of course I'll bathe her,"

935
00:51:23,330 --> 00:51:25,447
so I took the baby from her.

936
00:51:27,042 --> 00:51:29,159
I never gave her back.

937
00:51:32,006 --> 00:51:38,219
She slept in a crib for
about two or three months...

938
00:51:38,304 --> 00:51:43,140
and then one night
she was colicky and gassy,

939
00:51:43,225 --> 00:51:44,932
and I put her in the bed
with me.

940
00:51:45,019 --> 00:51:47,727
And she slept with me
in that bed,

941
00:51:47,813 --> 00:51:52,774
wherever we were...
for the next eight years.

942
00:52:01,660 --> 00:52:05,279
- Point to the baby, Mommy.
- That's my daughter.

943
00:52:05,372 --> 00:52:07,238
That's me
and Bobby's little girl.

944
00:52:07,333 --> 00:52:10,326
She looks just like
her father, doesn't she?

945
00:52:13,297 --> 00:52:14,833
I think, in the beginning,

946
00:52:14,923 --> 00:52:16,960
she was a good parent.

947
00:52:18,886 --> 00:52:21,469
Whitney hated leaving Krissi.

948
00:52:21,555 --> 00:52:24,172
It's hard when you're working,
when you're traveling.

949
00:52:24,266 --> 00:52:26,724
She had the same situation
as her mom.

950
00:52:26,810 --> 00:52:30,144
But she insisted
on taking Krissi on tour.

951
00:52:30,230 --> 00:52:33,223
Hey, baby, Krissi.

952
00:52:33,317 --> 00:52:35,525
Oh, you're the best kid
in the world.

953
00:52:35,611 --> 00:52:39,571
Thanks. You're the best kid
in the world!

954
00:52:39,657 --> 00:52:41,899
Thank you, Mama. Thank you.

955
00:52:43,494 --> 00:52:45,156
The best kid in the world.

956
00:52:45,245 --> 00:52:46,986
Thank you, Lord Jesus.

957
00:52:47,081 --> 00:52:50,290
Her mother was pulled
away from her so much,

958
00:52:50,376 --> 00:52:54,495
she was always vying
for her mother's attention.

959
00:52:54,588 --> 00:52:56,830
Not her love,
but her attention.

960
00:52:56,924 --> 00:52:59,416
You all know who this is, huh?

961
00:53:01,512 --> 00:53:04,846
♪ Bobbi, Bobbi, Bobbi
Bobbi, Bobbi, Bobbi, Bobbi ♪

962
00:53:04,932 --> 00:53:06,389
♪ My baby ♪

963
00:53:06,475 --> 00:53:09,058
♪ My little girl ♪

964
00:53:10,229 --> 00:53:12,471
♪ She inspires me ♪

965
00:53:13,649 --> 00:53:16,392
♪ And she's giving me joy ♪

966
00:53:16,485 --> 00:53:19,569
♪ Joy, joy, joy, joy, joy ♪

967
00:53:20,614 --> 00:53:23,607
♪ A little goddess ♪

968
00:53:23,701 --> 00:53:26,694
♪ And Mommy loves you, girl ♪

969
00:53:26,787 --> 00:53:29,530
♪ You don't have to worry
About a thing ♪

970
00:53:29,623 --> 00:53:34,163
♪ Because I'm standing
Right by your side ♪

971
00:53:38,132 --> 00:53:39,418
♪ Don't worry ♪

972
00:53:39,508 --> 00:53:41,124
- Can you shoop?
- Mm.

973
00:53:43,053 --> 00:53:45,340
It's not a place
for children to grow up,

974
00:53:45,431 --> 00:53:46,797
on the road.

975
00:53:46,890 --> 00:53:48,677
It's just not.

976
00:53:48,767 --> 00:53:51,305
A kid needs stability,
needs school.

977
00:53:51,395 --> 00:53:53,136
Being around other children.

978
00:53:53,230 --> 00:53:55,313
Krissi spent a lot of time
around grown-ups.

979
00:53:55,399 --> 00:53:57,311
Therefore, you grow up fast,

980
00:53:57,401 --> 00:53:59,188
and you become grown
before your time.

981
00:54:07,119 --> 00:54:08,826
The battle has been joined.

982
00:54:11,039 --> 00:54:13,326
I get a call
from Whitney's dad.

983
00:54:13,417 --> 00:54:17,707
"Hey, son, we're gonna do
the Super Bowl this year."

984
00:54:17,796 --> 00:54:19,753
Super Sunday is on its way,

985
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,174
and most of us will be glued
to our television sets.

986
00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:25,752
I talked to Whitney
about how it should feel.

987
00:54:25,846 --> 00:54:28,509
We always talked about
the feeling first.

988
00:54:28,599 --> 00:54:30,841
She talked about Marvin Gaye

989
00:54:30,934 --> 00:54:33,392
and how he had done
the National Anthem

990
00:54:33,479 --> 00:54:35,436
at the NBA all-star game.

991
00:54:37,900 --> 00:54:41,439
Marvin had this idea
to make it soulful,

992
00:54:41,528 --> 00:54:45,112
so he had this drum machine,
and he would just float in and out,

993
00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:47,942
and just sang however he felt
at that moment.

994
00:54:48,035 --> 00:54:49,867
♪ Oh, say ♪

995
00:54:50,746 --> 00:54:55,992
♪ Can you see... ♪

996
00:54:56,084 --> 00:54:59,168
And I think Whitney
definitely saw then, like,

997
00:54:59,254 --> 00:55:01,462
he was just free.

998
00:55:01,548 --> 00:55:06,418
♪ Early light... ♪

999
00:55:08,388 --> 00:55:10,004
So I said, "I understand.

1000
00:55:10,098 --> 00:55:12,636
If I give you one beat extra
for each measure,

1001
00:55:12,726 --> 00:55:14,934
it's gonna allow you
more freedom

1002
00:55:15,020 --> 00:55:16,886
to hold the notes
a little longer

1003
00:55:16,980 --> 00:55:20,064
and have gospel flavorings
and jazz flavorings.

1004
00:55:20,150 --> 00:55:23,143
They switched the meter
for the song

1005
00:55:23,237 --> 00:55:26,275
from a waltz
3/4 count to 4/4.

1006
00:55:26,365 --> 00:55:29,529
That might seem simple enough,
but for someone

1007
00:55:29,618 --> 00:55:31,450
steeped in the gospel
and black tradition,

1008
00:55:31,537 --> 00:55:33,119
all black music is 4/4.

1009
00:55:33,205 --> 00:55:35,948
Today the Air Force has been using
its so-called smart bombs...

1010
00:55:36,041 --> 00:55:39,375
I remember this was
during the Persian Gulf war,

1011
00:55:39,461 --> 00:55:41,453
a patriotic time
in this country.

1012
00:55:47,052 --> 00:55:50,341
And when I hand the music
to the orchestra,

1013
00:55:50,430 --> 00:55:52,467
and they play it...

1014
00:55:52,558 --> 00:55:54,845
They hate it.

1015
00:55:54,935 --> 00:55:59,555
It's "dissonant",
it's..."sacrilegious."

1016
00:55:59,648 --> 00:56:02,265
♪ Made in America ♪

1017
00:56:02,359 --> 00:56:05,602
♪ That means a lot to me ♪

1018
00:56:05,696 --> 00:56:10,191
I sent her the recording,
and I never heard from her.

1019
00:56:10,284 --> 00:56:14,528
A week before the Super Bowl,
Whitney comes to town.

1020
00:56:14,621 --> 00:56:16,954
I'm excited.
I'm, like, pacing the studio.

1021
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:21,580
And I'm like...
"So did you hear it?"

1022
00:56:21,670 --> 00:56:24,208
You know, "You hear it?
You ready?"

1023
00:56:24,298 --> 00:56:26,039
She says...

1024
00:56:26,133 --> 00:56:28,967
"No, I haven't listened to it
yet but just put it up, baby.

1025
00:56:29,052 --> 00:56:30,418
It'll be fine."

1026
00:56:30,512 --> 00:56:33,550
Holding my breath,
I push play...

1027
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:37,725
and she sits there,
eyes closed, listening.

1028
00:56:39,897 --> 00:56:44,437
She says, "All right, I got it."
I'm like, "You got it?"

1029
00:56:45,444 --> 00:56:47,026
I roll the tape...

1030
00:56:47,112 --> 00:56:51,197
and what the world heard
was the first take.

1031
00:56:51,283 --> 00:56:53,024
Whitney Houston!

1032
00:56:55,287 --> 00:56:57,449
I can feel
that same emotion right now,

1033
00:56:57,539 --> 00:57:00,202
like you just witnessed
something magical.

1034
00:57:03,503 --> 00:57:09,170
♪ O say can you see ♪

1035
00:57:09,259 --> 00:57:14,880
♪ By the dawn's early light ♪

1036
00:57:14,973 --> 00:57:20,765
♪ What so proudly we hailed ♪

1037
00:57:20,854 --> 00:57:26,566
♪ At the twilight's
Last gleaming ♪

1038
00:57:26,652 --> 00:57:33,024
♪ Whose broad stripes
And bright stars... ♪

1039
00:57:33,116 --> 00:57:35,984
Black people have always had
a very fraught relationship

1040
00:57:36,078 --> 00:57:37,740
to "The Star-Spangled Banner."

1041
00:57:40,832 --> 00:57:43,199
It's essentially
a song about war,

1042
00:57:43,293 --> 00:57:46,161
and the organs
of state violence

1043
00:57:46,254 --> 00:57:48,962
in the United States
have just as often been used

1044
00:57:49,049 --> 00:57:52,292
against black people as they
have been against enemies.

1045
00:57:52,386 --> 00:57:58,599
♪ And the rockets'
Red glare ♪

1046
00:57:58,684 --> 00:58:04,806
♪ The bombs bursting in air ♪

1047
00:58:04,898 --> 00:58:07,015
She had the radical impact

1048
00:58:07,109 --> 00:58:09,101
of highlighting
the theme of freedom.

1049
00:58:10,404 --> 00:58:13,897
And for... black people,

1050
00:58:13,991 --> 00:58:16,074
that's the most
important concept

1051
00:58:16,159 --> 00:58:19,152
that you live under
in this country.

1052
00:58:19,246 --> 00:58:26,244
♪ O say does that
Star-spangled ♪

1053
00:58:26,336 --> 00:58:33,334
♪ Banner yet wave ♪

1054
00:58:35,095 --> 00:58:37,929
♪ O'er the land ♪

1055
00:58:38,015 --> 00:58:43,010
♪ Of the free ♪

1056
00:58:43,103 --> 00:58:45,971
♪ And the home ♪

1057
00:58:46,064 --> 00:58:52,982
♪ Of the brave... ♪

1058
00:59:00,787 --> 00:59:03,279
She brought the spirit to it.

1059
00:59:03,373 --> 00:59:04,864
When you go to
the right church,

1060
00:59:04,958 --> 00:59:06,449
even as a Jewish person,

1061
00:59:06,543 --> 00:59:08,580
you might accept Jesus
in your life

1062
00:59:08,670 --> 00:59:10,662
after hearing
the right choir.

1063
00:59:10,756 --> 00:59:13,339
And at that particular point,

1064
00:59:13,425 --> 00:59:16,008
in hearing her sing
"The Star-Spangled Banner,"

1065
00:59:16,094 --> 00:59:20,179
she made people proud
that they were Americans.

1066
00:59:20,265 --> 00:59:22,552
- Hi, sweetheart. How are you?
- Good.

1067
00:59:22,642 --> 00:59:24,495
- What do you think about Whitney Houston?
- I like her.

1068
00:59:24,519 --> 00:59:25,930
What does she mean to you?

1069
00:59:26,021 --> 00:59:27,887
She's the greatest
female entertainer

1070
00:59:27,981 --> 00:59:29,392
of the 20th century.

1071
00:59:29,483 --> 00:59:31,645
So much soul
and so much spirit.

1072
00:59:31,735 --> 00:59:33,046
America.
Every time I think of her,

1073
00:59:33,070 --> 00:59:34,922
- I think of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
- "The Star-Spangled Banner," yeah.

1074
00:59:34,946 --> 00:59:37,008
- What's your favorite Whitney tune?
- "The Star-Spangled Banner."

1075
00:59:37,032 --> 00:59:38,193
That was the greatest.

1076
00:59:38,283 --> 00:59:40,946
I couldn't stop the tears
from rolling down my cheeks.

1077
00:59:41,036 --> 00:59:42,368
She sang with all her heart.

1078
00:59:42,454 --> 00:59:45,367
A beautiful singer, a beautiful person.
A good Christian girl.

1079
00:59:45,457 --> 00:59:47,894
If you could say anything you wanted
to say to her, what would you say?

1080
00:59:47,918 --> 00:59:49,329
I love you, Whitney.

1081
00:59:51,630 --> 00:59:55,795
The first time I met her,
she was wearing big black glasses.

1082
00:59:55,884 --> 00:59:58,627
And she kind of pretended
to be tough

1083
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:03,055
and answered in one word,
like, "How are you?" "Good."

1084
01:00:03,141 --> 01:00:05,178
"So you want to do movies?"
"Yep."

1085
01:00:05,268 --> 01:00:07,760
So I said,
"Take off your glasses.

1086
01:00:07,854 --> 01:00:09,595
I want to see your eyes."

1087
01:00:09,689 --> 01:00:12,397
And she said, "That's
exactly why I have them on,

1088
01:00:12,484 --> 01:00:14,350
so you don't see my eyes."

1089
01:00:14,444 --> 01:00:17,278
So I reached over
and took off her glasses.

1090
01:00:17,364 --> 01:00:20,152
She was kind of shocked,

1091
01:00:20,242 --> 01:00:22,905
but then I looked at her
and I thought:

1092
01:00:22,994 --> 01:00:28,581
"You know, even if she's
a singer, I think she has..."

1093
01:00:29,793 --> 01:00:31,250
She had a spirit.

1094
01:00:31,336 --> 01:00:33,498
And I thought,
"I'm gonna try this."

1095
01:00:33,588 --> 01:00:35,045
The Bodyguard?
The Bodyguard.

1096
01:00:35,132 --> 01:00:37,235
What do you play in it?
I mean, you're with Kevin Costner.

1097
01:00:37,259 --> 01:00:39,876
Well, I'm not the bodyguard.
No, you wouldn't be that.

1098
01:00:39,970 --> 01:00:44,931
No, I play an entertainer,
um, a rock star, pop star,

1099
01:00:45,016 --> 01:00:46,678
um, who is an actress,

1100
01:00:46,768 --> 01:00:51,638
who is haunted and hunted
by this maniac killer.

1101
01:00:51,731 --> 01:00:53,438
- Oh.
- Yeah.

1102
01:00:53,525 --> 01:00:56,609
It's kind of like "love me to
death" kind of thing. You know?

1103
01:00:56,695 --> 01:00:58,527
What's Kevin Costner
playing in it?

1104
01:00:58,613 --> 01:01:02,607
He's the bodyguard. Yes,
he's hired to guard my body.

1105
01:01:02,701 --> 01:01:05,068
Oh, what a nice job!

1106
01:01:08,081 --> 01:01:10,949
She had never done a movie.
I had never done a movie.

1107
01:01:11,042 --> 01:01:12,954
But we learned quick.

1108
01:01:13,044 --> 01:01:17,209
For me, I'm like the most
I dealt with white people

1109
01:01:17,299 --> 01:01:19,666
was like at the store
when they was, like,

1110
01:01:19,759 --> 01:01:21,216
"You show us
your credit card."

1111
01:01:21,303 --> 01:01:22,760
You know what I mean?

1112
01:01:22,846 --> 01:01:24,883
Like, that's how I was
used to being treated.

1113
01:01:24,973 --> 01:01:26,464
So to come on a movie set

1114
01:01:26,558 --> 01:01:30,017
and mostly white people
telling you what to do,

1115
01:01:30,103 --> 01:01:31,344
we were afraid.

1116
01:01:31,438 --> 01:01:32,974
Not that we were afraid
of them.

1117
01:01:33,064 --> 01:01:35,306
We were afraid
not to be able to live up to

1118
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,813
what it was that we were
supposed to do.

1119
01:01:40,030 --> 01:01:42,317
The idea that she was
my leading woman

1120
01:01:42,407 --> 01:01:45,946
seemed to be a very big deal
in the black community.

1121
01:01:46,036 --> 01:01:47,948
I never, um, saw that.

1122
01:01:48,038 --> 01:01:51,622
I simply saw
she was the cutest,

1123
01:01:51,708 --> 01:01:53,791
most beautiful girl
that could sing.

1124
01:01:53,877 --> 01:01:55,960
- You okay?
- Yeah. I'm okay.

1125
01:01:56,046 --> 01:01:58,789
And she happened to be black.

1126
01:01:58,882 --> 01:02:01,215
♪ I'll think of you... ♪

1127
01:02:01,301 --> 01:02:04,465
And then I realized that
she asks the plane to stop.

1128
01:02:06,264 --> 01:02:07,380
Wait!

1129
01:02:07,474 --> 01:02:08,681
She ran down the steps

1130
01:02:08,767 --> 01:02:10,224
that every white woman
has run down

1131
01:02:10,310 --> 01:02:11,926
to kiss Cary Grant
or whatever.

1132
01:02:12,020 --> 01:02:14,637
♪ I... ♪

1133
01:02:14,731 --> 01:02:16,222
And the camera went around

1134
01:02:16,316 --> 01:02:18,683
the way it went around
white people kissing

1135
01:02:18,777 --> 01:02:21,440
throughout the history
of Hollywood.

1136
01:02:21,529 --> 01:02:24,613
And we forgot about
what color anybody was.

1137
01:02:24,699 --> 01:02:26,691
That did change everything.

1138
01:02:35,543 --> 01:02:38,877
What was the fun aspect
for you being in a film?

1139
01:02:38,964 --> 01:02:40,626
Being a woman,
being a black woman,

1140
01:02:40,715 --> 01:02:42,126
playing a very strong part.

1141
01:02:42,217 --> 01:02:43,879
I think that's
exciting enough.

1142
01:02:43,969 --> 01:02:46,427
When it was screened
in South Africa,

1143
01:02:46,513 --> 01:02:48,470
people cheered
when they kissed.

1144
01:02:48,556 --> 01:02:50,923
That was amazing.

1145
01:02:51,017 --> 01:02:54,681
♪ That I'll think of you ♪

1146
01:02:56,356 --> 01:02:58,439
♪ Every step of ♪

1147
01:03:00,694 --> 01:03:04,062
♪ The way... ♪

1148
01:03:40,734 --> 01:03:45,274
♪ And I ♪

1149
01:03:45,989 --> 01:03:47,571
♪ Ooh, I ♪

1150
01:03:48,700 --> 01:03:51,238
♪ Will always ♪

1151
01:03:51,328 --> 01:03:55,868
♪ Love you ♪

1152
01:03:58,001 --> 01:04:00,209
♪ Will always ♪

1153
01:04:00,295 --> 01:04:03,379
♪ Love you ♪

1154
01:04:04,632 --> 01:04:10,253
♪ Bittersweet memories ♪

1155
01:04:11,348 --> 01:04:15,137
♪ That is all I'm taking ♪

1156
01:04:16,311 --> 01:04:18,644
♪ With me ♪

1157
01:04:19,397 --> 01:04:21,889
♪ So goodbye ♪

1158
01:04:21,983 --> 01:04:25,192
♪ Please don't cry ♪

1159
01:04:26,029 --> 01:04:28,146
♪ We both know ♪

1160
01:04:28,239 --> 01:04:30,401
♪ I'm not what you ♪

1161
01:04:30,492 --> 01:04:33,280
♪ You need ♪

1162
01:04:33,370 --> 01:04:37,205
♪ And I... ♪

1163
01:04:39,042 --> 01:04:44,254
♪ Will always love you ♪

1164
01:04:44,339 --> 01:04:46,331
♪ I ♪

1165
01:04:46,424 --> 01:04:50,043
♪ Will always love you ♪

1166
01:04:50,136 --> 01:04:52,970
♪ And you, and you, and you
And you, and you, and you ♪

1167
01:04:53,056 --> 01:04:55,264
♪ And you, and you, and you ♪

1168
01:04:55,350 --> 01:04:57,137
♪ Ah ♪

1169
01:05:00,730 --> 01:05:04,223
The Bodyguard
took Whitney into the stratosphere.

1170
01:05:04,317 --> 01:05:07,856
Every country in the world
played that song.

1171
01:05:07,946 --> 01:05:09,437
Behind these walls,

1172
01:05:09,531 --> 01:05:12,114
the row over a chart-topping
hit rumbles on.

1173
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:14,112
♪ And I... ♪

1174
01:05:14,202 --> 01:05:16,569
John and Suzanne Handley
hated Whitney Houston

1175
01:05:16,663 --> 01:05:17,995
blaring through their walls.

1176
01:05:18,081 --> 01:05:19,822
They called it
psychological torture.

1177
01:05:19,916 --> 01:05:21,782
Today at their home
there was no comment

1178
01:05:21,876 --> 01:05:23,663
on the prison sentence
handed out

1179
01:05:23,753 --> 01:05:26,166
to the neighbor
they'd taken to court.

1180
01:05:26,256 --> 01:05:28,919
All she did was play
a Whitney Houston record,

1181
01:05:29,008 --> 01:05:31,967
and she's serving
seven days in prison for that.

1182
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:53,485
It's dark. It's dark.

1183
01:05:53,575 --> 01:05:55,783
Under the candlelight...

1184
01:05:55,869 --> 01:05:59,533
Under the candlelight we see
that there is a woman in here.

1185
01:05:59,622 --> 01:06:02,114
We don't know her name yet...

1186
01:06:02,208 --> 01:06:04,621
but she's a fantastic
recording artist,

1187
01:06:04,711 --> 01:06:06,247
one of the best.

1188
01:06:06,337 --> 01:06:08,374
Ladies and gentlemen,
Miss Whitney Houston.

1189
01:06:08,465 --> 01:06:10,923
Yeah, I'm on camera.
They got me on camera.

1190
01:06:11,009 --> 01:06:13,467
- And that's Pat.
- Hi.

1191
01:06:13,553 --> 01:06:15,840
That's my sister-in-law.

1192
01:06:15,930 --> 01:06:18,047
This is Bobby.

1193
01:06:18,141 --> 01:06:21,100
Whether you know it or not,
yeah, it's me. How you doing?

1194
01:06:21,186 --> 01:06:25,351
She was the superstar,
and he had a couple of hits,

1195
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:28,854
so kind of equal,
close enough.

1196
01:06:28,943 --> 01:06:31,777
And then The Bodyguard hit.

1197
01:06:33,615 --> 01:06:35,948
And she shot off
into the stratosphere,

1198
01:06:36,034 --> 01:06:41,996
and he knew instinctively
he would never get there.

1199
01:06:43,082 --> 01:06:44,994
And he just kinda shut down.

1200
01:06:45,084 --> 01:06:46,950
When you got people
in the media

1201
01:06:47,045 --> 01:06:48,456
talking about Mr. Houston

1202
01:06:48,546 --> 01:06:50,378
instead of Mr. Brown,
you know.

1203
01:06:50,465 --> 01:06:52,923
Instead of saying...
Like I say, "Fuck 'em,"

1204
01:06:53,009 --> 01:06:54,671
he let it get to him.

1205
01:06:54,761 --> 01:06:57,128
Can I just ask you real quick,
Miss Houston?

1206
01:06:57,222 --> 01:06:59,384
- Mrs. Brown, man.
- Mrs. Houston-Brown?

1207
01:06:59,474 --> 01:07:00,743
- Don't make that mistake.
- Yes, darlin'?

1208
01:07:00,767 --> 01:07:03,180
Let's go, Laurie.

1209
01:07:03,269 --> 01:07:05,306
Bobby was jealous,

1210
01:07:05,396 --> 01:07:08,480
and he could not recognize
that emotion.

1211
01:07:10,026 --> 01:07:13,736
He was always now
the plus one.

1212
01:07:13,821 --> 01:07:18,282
For him, in a black man's mind,
it was tearing him up.

1213
01:07:18,368 --> 01:07:20,360
We didn't think about
who was bigger

1214
01:07:20,453 --> 01:07:21,739
or who sold more records.

1215
01:07:21,829 --> 01:07:23,946
We thought about our talents

1216
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:26,532
and how they matched so well.

1217
01:07:26,626 --> 01:07:29,039
- ♪ Gotta go through... ♪
- ♪ The fire ♪

1218
01:07:29,128 --> 01:07:30,994
- ♪ The... ♪
- ♪ The rain ♪

1219
01:07:33,132 --> 01:07:36,296
You're crazy.
Bobby, you're crazy.

1220
01:07:36,386 --> 01:07:39,254
What?

1221
01:07:39,347 --> 01:07:41,509
Because, I was about
to sing your line.

1222
01:07:41,599 --> 01:07:43,135
I know, I know.
You know what?

1223
01:07:43,226 --> 01:07:46,685
He'll sing this whole phrase
if I'm not careful.

1224
01:07:46,771 --> 01:07:48,808
Bobby, your part is,
"Gotta go through."

1225
01:07:48,898 --> 01:07:50,810
- All right.
- The rain, the joy...

1226
01:07:53,069 --> 01:07:55,436
- ♪ Gotta go through ♪
- ♪ The fire ♪

1227
01:07:55,530 --> 01:07:57,192
- ♪ The fire ♪
- ♪ The rain ♪

1228
01:07:57,282 --> 01:08:00,571
- ♪ The rain ♪
- Bobby. Bobby, you go...

1229
01:08:00,660 --> 01:08:04,654
Gotta go through...
the rain... the joy.

1230
01:08:04,747 --> 01:08:06,225
I'm gonna play you
the reference one more time.

1231
01:08:06,249 --> 01:08:07,785
Don't play me the reference.

1232
01:08:07,875 --> 01:08:10,788
She wanted to keep the marriage,

1233
01:08:10,878 --> 01:08:15,714
and eventually, she stepped
down to lift him up.

1234
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:20,044
Initially, I named her movie
company Houston Productions.

1235
01:08:20,138 --> 01:08:22,596
She's one of the biggest stars
in Hollywood.

1236
01:08:22,682 --> 01:08:24,890
And a few months in, she said,

1237
01:08:24,976 --> 01:08:27,184
"We need to change the name
to BROWNHOUSE."

1238
01:08:29,814 --> 01:08:33,603
She went so far as to, "Okay,
well, you can manage me,"

1239
01:08:33,693 --> 01:08:36,276
trying to give him some
leverage in different things

1240
01:08:36,362 --> 01:08:39,605
to try to make him feel
important again.

1241
01:08:39,699 --> 01:08:41,565
That's just not
where his heart was.

1242
01:08:41,659 --> 01:08:44,493
He wanted to be on the stage.
He wanted to be in the forefront.

1243
01:08:44,579 --> 01:08:48,698
Bobby! Bobby! Bobby!

1244
01:08:48,791 --> 01:08:51,204
He did things on purpose to hurt her,

1245
01:08:51,294 --> 01:08:53,752
because he wasn't the star.

1246
01:08:53,838 --> 01:08:56,546
Bobby Brown is behind bars today.

1247
01:08:56,633 --> 01:08:58,169
...accused of
hitting his wife...

1248
01:08:58,259 --> 01:08:59,903
...totaling a Porsche
on Ocean Drive in Hollywood.

1249
01:08:59,927 --> 01:09:01,509
People were ringing
the doorbell,

1250
01:09:01,596 --> 01:09:04,213
young ladies saying,
"Oh, this is his baby."

1251
01:09:04,307 --> 01:09:06,173
Bobby!

1252
01:09:06,267 --> 01:09:10,136
Sexual harassment lawsuits
from some of the employees.

1253
01:09:10,229 --> 01:09:11,265
Bobby.

1254
01:09:11,356 --> 01:09:13,939
He would expose himself
to them.

1255
01:09:14,025 --> 01:09:16,108
The R&B singer burst into tears.

1256
01:09:16,194 --> 01:09:18,356
Urinated on the back seat
of the deputy's patrol car.

1257
01:09:18,446 --> 01:09:20,028
What took you so long?

1258
01:09:20,114 --> 01:09:23,027
Constantly,
it was always something.

1259
01:09:23,117 --> 01:09:24,983
This isn't fair.

1260
01:09:25,078 --> 01:09:26,694
This ain't fair, man.

1261
01:09:26,788 --> 01:09:29,075
I remember being in Europe
and sitting with her,

1262
01:09:29,165 --> 01:09:30,952
looking at
a European newspaper,

1263
01:09:31,042 --> 01:09:32,499
and Bobby's being arrested

1264
01:09:32,585 --> 01:09:35,999
for sexual harassment
back in California.

1265
01:09:36,089 --> 01:09:40,880
And she's begging him
to come on tour.

1266
01:09:40,968 --> 01:09:42,960
She's begging him
to come be with her.

1267
01:09:43,054 --> 01:09:45,967
And I look at her and I go,
"What are you doing?"

1268
01:09:47,642 --> 01:09:49,759
Between the press
and everybody saying

1269
01:09:49,852 --> 01:09:53,220
this is not gonna last, it was
constantly biting at her.

1270
01:09:54,065 --> 01:09:56,102
Yay!

1271
01:09:56,192 --> 01:10:00,277
But she didn't want to be
like her mother, a divorcée.

1272
01:10:00,363 --> 01:10:03,572
She was going to prove
that she could do it.

1273
01:10:05,410 --> 01:10:07,402
Do you believe
in total fidelity?

1274
01:10:07,495 --> 01:10:09,031
Do I believe in what?

1275
01:10:09,122 --> 01:10:10,988
Total fidelity?

1276
01:10:11,082 --> 01:10:12,914
Being faithful?

1277
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:16,869
Oh, I am faithful.
That's why I got married.

1278
01:10:16,963 --> 01:10:19,626
Told you.

1279
01:10:19,716 --> 01:10:22,333
Wouldn't have
got married if...

1280
01:10:22,427 --> 01:10:24,635
You know...

1281
01:10:24,721 --> 01:10:27,134
- I think I got it.
- I hope so.

1282
01:10:27,223 --> 01:10:29,636
Were they in love, do you think?

1283
01:10:29,726 --> 01:10:34,141
They loved each other,
but a strange love.

1284
01:10:36,315 --> 01:10:37,977
I think she might
have believed

1285
01:10:38,067 --> 01:10:39,854
she was in love with Bobby,

1286
01:10:39,944 --> 01:10:42,857
but I really think it was more
of a co-dependent relationship.

1287
01:10:42,947 --> 01:10:46,156
To the point where Bobbi Kristina
was even left out.

1288
01:10:55,293 --> 01:11:00,789
Somewhere around
The Bodyguard tour, '93, '94,

1289
01:11:00,882 --> 01:11:04,375
I remember her not showing up
in the rehearsals.

1290
01:11:04,469 --> 01:11:05,926
And then, when she came,

1291
01:11:06,012 --> 01:11:08,800
she would struggle
with her voice.

1292
01:11:08,890 --> 01:11:11,678
It wasn't the Whitney
I knew.

1293
01:11:11,768 --> 01:11:14,602
There was
definitely agitation.

1294
01:11:16,564 --> 01:11:19,147
All of the noise around her,

1295
01:11:19,233 --> 01:11:21,316
all of the things
coming at her,

1296
01:11:21,402 --> 01:11:25,612
she just wanted
to escape the pressure.

1297
01:11:25,698 --> 01:11:29,237
Can we talk about Whitney's
drug problem? When did that...?

1298
01:11:29,327 --> 01:11:30,784
I don't wanna talk
about that.

1299
01:11:30,870 --> 01:11:33,328
That has nothing to do
with this documentary

1300
01:11:33,414 --> 01:11:36,157
or anything that
I want to speak about.

1301
01:11:36,250 --> 01:11:38,458
Okay, if you don't wanna
talk about it.

1302
01:11:38,544 --> 01:11:39,938
- But obviously it's...
- Not at all.

1303
01:11:39,962 --> 01:11:41,703
It's the thing that killed her,

1304
01:11:41,798 --> 01:11:42,858
so it's important, isn't it?

1305
01:11:42,882 --> 01:11:44,839
That's not what killed her.

1306
01:11:46,886 --> 01:11:48,752
Whenever you were with Whitney,

1307
01:11:48,846 --> 01:11:50,462
were you taking drugs
every day?

1308
01:11:50,556 --> 01:11:52,548
Hell, yeah, every day.

1309
01:11:52,642 --> 01:11:55,305
A lot every day. Shit that
usually kills motherfuckers,

1310
01:11:55,394 --> 01:11:58,102
and you survive it.
So you keep rocking. Ha, ha.

1311
01:11:58,189 --> 01:11:59,771
What about Bobby?

1312
01:11:59,857 --> 01:12:02,315
Let's just say Bobby was
a fucking lightweight...

1313
01:12:02,401 --> 01:12:04,393
when it came to
motherfucking drugs.

1314
01:12:04,487 --> 01:12:07,446
Bobby was not someone
who could do, you know...

1315
01:12:07,532 --> 01:12:11,867
We used to pass Bobby,
fucking, by lapping him.

1316
01:12:11,953 --> 01:12:13,364
Trust me.

1317
01:12:13,454 --> 01:12:14,570
What was Whitney's

1318
01:12:14,664 --> 01:12:15,950
drug of choice
at that time?

1319
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:17,827
I'm sure it was cocaine,
you know.

1320
01:12:17,917 --> 01:12:20,250
- Marijuana and cocaine.
- Was she smoking it?

1321
01:12:20,336 --> 01:12:23,044
I'm sure she smoked it
inside the marijuana.

1322
01:12:23,130 --> 01:12:24,792
If we can't talk about drugs,

1323
01:12:24,882 --> 01:12:26,623
that makes it very hard
to talk about

1324
01:12:26,717 --> 01:12:28,253
the last years of her life.

1325
01:12:28,344 --> 01:12:29,585
Mm.

1326
01:12:31,472 --> 01:12:34,306
I think we've just talked
about her life, you know.

1327
01:12:34,392 --> 01:12:36,850
Drugs has nothing
to do with her life.

1328
01:12:38,312 --> 01:12:41,476
She was kind and soft and sweet.

1329
01:12:41,566 --> 01:12:45,105
And then she was
somebody different.

1330
01:12:45,194 --> 01:12:46,275
Tell it.

1331
01:12:47,363 --> 01:12:48,363
M a n:

1332
01:12:51,826 --> 01:12:54,068
What did you hear?

1333
01:12:59,584 --> 01:13:00,995
Shh.

1334
01:13:06,090 --> 01:13:08,173
That you had what?

1335
01:13:21,105 --> 01:13:23,438
I wouldn't fuck her with mine, dawg.

1336
01:13:27,695 --> 01:13:29,778
No.

1337
01:13:29,864 --> 01:13:31,981
She started canceling dates.

1338
01:13:32,074 --> 01:13:33,986
I can recall
one particular time

1339
01:13:34,076 --> 01:13:36,864
she was scheduled
to perform in California,

1340
01:13:36,954 --> 01:13:38,570
and she was in California.

1341
01:13:38,664 --> 01:13:41,247
But she was at the airport,
sitting on a jet.

1342
01:13:41,334 --> 01:13:43,166
They had been getting high,

1343
01:13:43,252 --> 01:13:46,165
and Bobby made the phone call
saying, "Tell the promoters

1344
01:13:46,255 --> 01:13:48,838
to bring over X amount
of dollars, and we'll show up."

1345
01:13:48,925 --> 01:13:50,507
I said,
"Well, that ain't gonna happen.

1346
01:13:50,593 --> 01:13:52,696
So y'all might as well take off then,
'cause that ain't gonna happen.

1347
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:54,427
That ain't how it works."
You know?

1348
01:13:54,513 --> 01:13:55,970
"That is not how it works.

1349
01:13:56,057 --> 01:13:59,425
Ain't nobody bringing you
a bag of cash!"

1350
01:13:59,518 --> 01:14:03,182
Everything began
to spiral out of control.

1351
01:14:04,732 --> 01:14:06,348
I talked to her father.

1352
01:14:06,442 --> 01:14:09,105
I talked to her mother.
I talked to Donna Houston.

1353
01:14:09,195 --> 01:14:12,233
Every person
that you're gonna interview.

1354
01:14:12,323 --> 01:14:16,533
And I was able to get Cissy
to do an intervention.

1355
01:14:16,619 --> 01:14:19,862
First of all, we walked in to do it,
and Whitney was stoned.

1356
01:14:19,956 --> 01:14:23,495
Then after it was over, when she
had agreed to go to rehab,

1357
01:14:23,584 --> 01:14:25,541
she phoned her father,
and he told her:

1358
01:14:25,628 --> 01:14:28,086
"You don't have to go."

1359
01:14:28,172 --> 01:14:30,380
Why didn't Cissy do more?

1360
01:14:30,466 --> 01:14:32,628
She didn't want Whitney mad at her.

1361
01:14:32,718 --> 01:14:35,426
Because she'd already
been mad at her earlier in her life?

1362
01:14:35,513 --> 01:14:39,257
Yeah. And when she tried,
she would go up to her house,

1363
01:14:39,350 --> 01:14:42,468
but Whitney wouldn't
let her in.

1364
01:14:42,561 --> 01:14:45,850
You had to get permission
to go through that gate.

1365
01:14:45,940 --> 01:14:48,432
Why would nobody
confront the situation?

1366
01:14:48,526 --> 01:14:51,860
Money. Their jobs.
Their nice houses.

1367
01:14:51,946 --> 01:14:54,279
Their access
to other celebrities.

1368
01:14:54,365 --> 01:14:55,981
The fact that,
in my opinion,

1369
01:14:56,075 --> 01:14:57,782
they had
no marketable skill set,

1370
01:14:57,868 --> 01:15:00,861
other than being a Houston
or related to a Houston.

1371
01:15:00,955 --> 01:15:03,823
I mean, that's a lot.
That's hard to give up.

1372
01:15:03,916 --> 01:15:06,784
They probably felt, I guess,
a little bit in their defense,

1373
01:15:06,877 --> 01:15:08,539
that "She's choosing
to do this.

1374
01:15:08,629 --> 01:15:10,541
Why should I give up
my lifestyle?"

1375
01:15:10,631 --> 01:15:14,250
I once talked about
why she didn't stop,

1376
01:15:14,343 --> 01:15:16,255
and she said, "I like it.

1377
01:15:16,345 --> 01:15:18,803
And I'm gonna do it
until I want to stop."

1378
01:15:21,892 --> 01:15:24,350
I really empathize with her pain.

1379
01:15:26,105 --> 01:15:29,018
She was running away
from her demons.

1380
01:15:30,151 --> 01:15:32,188
♪ I can run ♪

1381
01:15:32,278 --> 01:15:34,395
♪ I'm guaranteed his love ♪

1382
01:15:35,823 --> 01:15:39,282
♪ When there's food
On my table ♪

1383
01:15:39,368 --> 01:15:41,701
- ♪ I'll hasten ♪
- ♪ Hasten to ♪

1384
01:15:41,787 --> 01:15:43,744
♪ I'll hasten ♪

1385
01:15:43,831 --> 01:15:45,367
♪ I'm not gonna waste
any time ♪

1386
01:15:45,458 --> 01:15:47,825
♪ I'm gonna run
gonna run ♪

1387
01:15:47,918 --> 01:15:50,831
- ♪ I'll run, I'll run ♪
- ♪ I'll hasten to ♪

1388
01:15:50,921 --> 01:15:52,913
- ♪ I'll run, I'll run ♪
- ♪ His love ♪

1389
01:15:53,007 --> 01:15:56,171
♪ I'll run, I'll run
I'll run, I'll run ♪

1390
01:15:56,260 --> 01:15:59,253
- ♪ I'll hasten to ♪
- ♪ I'm gonna run ♪

1391
01:15:59,346 --> 01:16:03,465
- ♪ I'm gonna run, I'm gonna run ♪
- ♪ His love ♪

1392
01:16:03,559 --> 01:16:05,221
♪ Oh-ho-oh-oh ♪

1393
01:16:05,311 --> 01:16:08,224
- ♪ I'll hasten to ♪
- ♪ I'm gonna run ♪

1394
01:16:08,314 --> 01:16:12,684
- ♪ I'm gonna run ♪
- ♪ His love ♪

1395
01:16:14,403 --> 01:16:15,610
Fuck!

1396
01:16:16,906 --> 01:16:18,738
♪ I'm gonna run ♪

1397
01:16:19,784 --> 01:16:24,825
♪ Ah, oh ♪

1398
01:16:24,914 --> 01:16:27,782
♪ Sure I will ♪

1399
01:16:27,875 --> 01:16:29,992
♪ Do you know
You can run? ♪

1400
01:16:35,633 --> 01:16:37,795
♪ Did you think
Of running? ♪

1401
01:16:37,885 --> 01:16:39,751
♪ You're gonna have to ♪

1402
01:16:39,845 --> 01:16:41,711
♪ Be strong ♪

1403
01:16:41,806 --> 01:16:44,014
♪ Where will I go? ♪

1404
01:16:44,642 --> 01:16:46,508
♪ Oh-oh ♪

1405
01:16:46,602 --> 01:16:48,935
♪ That's where I'm going ♪

1406
01:16:49,021 --> 01:16:51,104
♪ To his ♪

1407
01:16:51,190 --> 01:16:56,402
♪ Throne... ♪

1408
01:16:59,782 --> 01:17:01,364
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪

1409
01:17:06,539 --> 01:17:08,872
There were
so many layers to reach her.

1410
01:17:08,958 --> 01:17:10,574
I don't even think she knew

1411
01:17:10,668 --> 01:17:13,627
the layers that were
being created by others.

1412
01:17:13,712 --> 01:17:14,998
One day we were told

1413
01:17:15,089 --> 01:17:17,126
we had to send everything
through Sheldon.

1414
01:17:17,216 --> 01:17:19,128
The next day
it was through Tony.

1415
01:17:19,218 --> 01:17:22,052
Some days, we were told
we can't copy Robyn.

1416
01:17:22,138 --> 01:17:23,925
Where is she? There she is.

1417
01:17:24,014 --> 01:17:25,471
Ready? One, two, three.

1418
01:17:25,558 --> 01:17:27,641
Of all the people
working for Whitney,

1419
01:17:27,726 --> 01:17:29,592
Robyn was always putting

1420
01:17:29,687 --> 01:17:32,270
Whitney's considerations first.

1421
01:17:32,356 --> 01:17:34,894
Gotta get some respect
around here.

1422
01:17:36,318 --> 01:17:38,275
They don't give me
any respect.

1423
01:17:38,362 --> 01:17:42,072
Robyn became very
important to Whitney's career.

1424
01:17:42,158 --> 01:17:44,866
She dealt with
the record company.

1425
01:17:44,952 --> 01:17:48,411
She was the creative force
involved in costume,

1426
01:17:48,497 --> 01:17:52,116
stage design,
developing Whitney's image.

1427
01:17:52,209 --> 01:17:55,668
♪ If tomorrow is
Judgment Day ♪

1428
01:17:55,754 --> 01:17:57,837
Sing, Mommy.

1429
01:17:57,923 --> 01:18:01,087
♪ And I'm standing
on the front line ♪

1430
01:18:01,177 --> 01:18:03,635
♪ Mm ♪

1431
01:18:03,721 --> 01:18:07,556
♪ And the Lord asks me
what I did with my life ♪

1432
01:18:08,225 --> 01:18:10,217
♪ I will say ♪

1433
01:18:10,311 --> 01:18:12,177
♪ I spent it with you ♪

1434
01:18:12,271 --> 01:18:14,433
- ♪ Yeah, it's all so right ♪
- ♪ It's all right ♪

1435
01:18:14,523 --> 01:18:16,731
It became a real power struggle

1436
01:18:16,817 --> 01:18:18,649
between Bobby and Robyn,

1437
01:18:18,736 --> 01:18:22,571
Bobby not wanting Robyn around,
feeling insecure.

1438
01:18:22,656 --> 01:18:24,488
- You gotta understand.
- Yeah.

1439
01:18:24,575 --> 01:18:27,318
I love this woman too much.
If y'all fuck around...

1440
01:18:27,411 --> 01:18:28,868
- Bobby!
- ...I will kill you.

1441
01:18:28,954 --> 01:18:30,820
- ♪ Baby, you... ♪
- Do me a favor.

1442
01:18:30,915 --> 01:18:32,531
I will fucking bury you.

1443
01:18:32,625 --> 01:18:35,208
I'll bury you in my backyard
and put lime on your ass.

1444
01:18:35,294 --> 01:18:36,580
Do you understand me?

1445
01:18:36,670 --> 01:18:38,457
It was extremely stressful,

1446
01:18:38,547 --> 01:18:41,460
them always at
each other's throat.

1447
01:18:41,550 --> 01:18:45,214
Robyn felt that Bobby
was a bad influence.

1448
01:18:45,304 --> 01:18:47,887
She really and truly felt
he was a bad influence,

1449
01:18:47,973 --> 01:18:50,431
and that he would
destroy her.

1450
01:18:50,517 --> 01:18:52,224
Robyn gave her an ultimatum.

1451
01:18:52,311 --> 01:18:55,395
"It's gonna be me or him."

1452
01:18:55,481 --> 01:18:59,691
Whitney said, "Tell her that
I accept her resignation."

1453
01:18:59,777 --> 01:19:01,439
I called Robyn up and said:

1454
01:19:01,528 --> 01:19:04,191
"I spoke with Whitney,
and she wanted me to tell you

1455
01:19:04,281 --> 01:19:06,193
that she accepts
your resignation."

1456
01:19:12,289 --> 01:19:14,531
And they didn't speak
for years.

1457
01:19:21,799 --> 01:19:26,510
When Robyn left,
John finally had total control.

1458
01:19:29,223 --> 01:19:32,387
She loved her daddy,
and she trusted him.

1459
01:19:32,476 --> 01:19:37,312
But that allowed for a lot of
foxes to come in the henhouse.

1460
01:19:37,398 --> 01:19:39,310
She seemed to be
a bit of an ATM

1461
01:19:39,400 --> 01:19:41,437
for a lot of people
that I saw around her.

1462
01:19:41,527 --> 01:19:45,441
I don't see how an accountant,
you know,

1463
01:19:45,531 --> 01:19:48,319
drives a Ferrari
and has a yacht

1464
01:19:48,409 --> 01:19:50,492
and only has one client.

1465
01:19:52,579 --> 01:19:56,243
My understanding was
that and

1466
01:19:56,333 --> 01:19:58,416
got together
and started stealing money.

1467
01:19:58,502 --> 01:19:59,834
A lot of money.

1468
01:19:59,920 --> 01:20:02,082
Was John himself stealing money?

1469
01:20:04,008 --> 01:20:06,125
Hm. Um...

1470
01:20:10,848 --> 01:20:14,091
She found out about it.
All the money he stole.

1471
01:20:14,893 --> 01:20:17,180
She hated it.

1472
01:20:17,271 --> 01:20:19,228
She cut him off.

1473
01:20:19,315 --> 01:20:21,728
That's what she did.

1474
01:20:21,817 --> 01:20:24,230
Last September,
the biggest blow of all,

1475
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:27,313
Houston's father, who managed
his daughter's finances,

1476
01:20:27,406 --> 01:20:30,319
joined his business partner
in a lawsuit against her,

1477
01:20:30,409 --> 01:20:33,447
demanding $100 million.

1478
01:20:33,537 --> 01:20:37,406
In 1999,
Whitney signed the biggest deal

1479
01:20:37,499 --> 01:20:42,164
that any recording artist
had ever received.

1480
01:20:42,254 --> 01:20:46,089
John felt that he was
the one that brokered the deal.

1481
01:20:46,175 --> 01:20:47,586
As a commission,

1482
01:20:47,676 --> 01:20:52,262
he felt that he should be
paid $100 million.

1483
01:20:52,348 --> 01:20:54,590
I'm tired of being hurt.

1484
01:20:57,269 --> 01:21:01,058
I'm tired of being
in a neglected state.

1485
01:21:01,148 --> 01:21:03,435
You get your act together,
honey...

1486
01:21:04,777 --> 01:21:06,769
And you pay me the money
that you owe me.

1487
01:21:06,862 --> 01:21:09,730
She was daddy's little girl,
and then daddy turned around

1488
01:21:09,823 --> 01:21:11,655
and wanted to sue her
for $100 million.

1489
01:21:11,742 --> 01:21:14,450
That would break
anybody's heart.

1490
01:21:14,536 --> 01:21:16,493
She just held onto it.

1491
01:21:16,580 --> 01:21:18,788
And it ate her up inside.

1492
01:21:20,125 --> 01:21:21,957
When I knew he was dying,

1493
01:21:22,044 --> 01:21:25,833
I called and she promised me
she was coming,

1494
01:21:25,923 --> 01:21:29,087
'cause I wanted them
to get it together

1495
01:21:29,176 --> 01:21:30,792
before he went away.

1496
01:21:30,886 --> 01:21:34,300
I said, "Nip's on her way.
She's gonna come."

1497
01:21:34,390 --> 01:21:37,133
He said, "No, she's not.
She's not coming."

1498
01:21:37,226 --> 01:21:39,343
And really she didn't come.

1499
01:21:45,359 --> 01:21:49,569
Whitney didn't come
to her dad's funeral.

1500
01:21:49,655 --> 01:21:54,025
She came the night before
and did her personal goodbyes.

1501
01:21:54,118 --> 01:21:57,907
She didn't want the spectacle.
She didn't want the cameras.

1502
01:21:59,873 --> 01:22:04,163
That's when she began
to close herself and...

1503
01:22:05,587 --> 01:22:07,704
"It's me against the world."

1504
01:22:31,238 --> 01:22:33,651
This is Whitney's house outside.

1505
01:22:36,410 --> 01:22:38,743
♪ If the way I hold you... ♪

1506
01:22:40,873 --> 01:22:43,411
This is our first cigarette today.

1507
01:22:52,217 --> 01:22:53,333
What's wrong with that?

1508
01:22:53,427 --> 01:22:55,009
♪ No words of consolation ♪

1509
01:22:55,095 --> 01:22:56,711
The dining room.

1510
01:22:58,474 --> 01:23:03,094
♪ Is gonna make me
miss you less... ♪

1511
01:23:06,523 --> 01:23:13,066
♪ Make it easy on yourself ♪

1512
01:23:14,239 --> 01:23:16,105
♪ Make it easy... ♪

1513
01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:19,409
I always felt compassion
and empathy for her.

1514
01:23:19,495 --> 01:23:23,489
Deep down,
she was a girl in pain.

1515
01:23:23,582 --> 01:23:26,791
But at the same time,
she was so fun.

1516
01:23:29,963 --> 01:23:31,704
She was full of laughter,

1517
01:23:31,798 --> 01:23:35,257
and that smile just made you
feel warm all the time.

1518
01:23:36,553 --> 01:23:38,840
Well, here she is,
everybody.

1519
01:23:38,931 --> 01:23:41,969
Wait! I gotta get you!

1520
01:23:42,059 --> 01:23:44,346
We need you to rock it,
Whitney! Come back!

1521
01:23:44,436 --> 01:23:47,520
She was the first person
that I worked with in A&R.

1522
01:23:47,606 --> 01:23:49,063
You can't run
from the studio!

1523
01:23:49,149 --> 01:23:51,106
I'm leaving!

1524
01:23:51,193 --> 01:23:54,106
We recorded
wherever they wanted to go.

1525
01:23:54,196 --> 01:23:55,812
You know, we'd go to Miami

1526
01:23:55,906 --> 01:23:57,442
because the weather
would be better.

1527
01:23:57,533 --> 01:23:59,525
I think we were there
three months,

1528
01:23:59,618 --> 01:24:01,985
and we recorded
less than two songs.

1529
01:24:02,079 --> 01:24:03,365
Wow, what was...?

1530
01:24:03,455 --> 01:24:05,993
What was happening
for those three months?

1531
01:24:06,083 --> 01:24:07,619
Um...

1532
01:24:07,709 --> 01:24:09,871
She said to me once...

1533
01:24:09,962 --> 01:24:11,874
After that, she said, "Baby,

1534
01:24:11,964 --> 01:24:14,752
I don't think I slept
45 minutes this summer."

1535
01:24:16,468 --> 01:24:18,255
She would go behind
the hotel door

1536
01:24:18,345 --> 01:24:22,510
and not open it
for 10 days or two weeks.

1537
01:24:22,599 --> 01:24:24,135
When she opened it,

1538
01:24:24,226 --> 01:24:26,434
I could tell that
she lost weight.

1539
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:30,309
She wasn't looking healthy,
and I would take her and say,

1540
01:24:30,399 --> 01:24:34,268
"Come on, Nippy, let's go.
Let's go get some soup."

1541
01:24:34,361 --> 01:24:36,648
How long did this all go on for?

1542
01:24:37,322 --> 01:24:39,484
A few years.

1543
01:24:39,575 --> 01:24:42,238
- A few years?
- Yeah.

1544
01:24:42,327 --> 01:24:44,444
How much do you think you spent?

1545
01:24:44,538 --> 01:24:48,202
I hate to say.

1546
01:24:49,209 --> 01:24:50,996
Millions.

1547
01:24:51,086 --> 01:24:52,622
Five?

1548
01:24:54,715 --> 01:24:56,456
Probably more.

1549
01:24:56,550 --> 01:24:59,133
Expensive hotels, jets,

1550
01:24:59,219 --> 01:25:02,178
studios that were booked
that weren't used.

1551
01:25:02,264 --> 01:25:04,426
Why didn't the label
put a stop to this?

1552
01:25:04,516 --> 01:25:06,974
Well, the world wanted
to hear her again,

1553
01:25:07,060 --> 01:25:10,679
and of course, the label
wanted to put out that record.

1554
01:25:13,108 --> 01:25:15,771
There was so much money
spent on that album,

1555
01:25:15,861 --> 01:25:18,604
you must have known
about the drug use.

1556
01:25:18,697 --> 01:25:24,034
Uh, you know what? I never
knew there was any addiction.

1557
01:25:24,119 --> 01:25:25,610
I never knew it.

1558
01:25:25,704 --> 01:25:28,447
Um, it was just kinda kept...

1559
01:25:28,540 --> 01:25:30,532
I don't know if it was
kept away from me

1560
01:25:30,626 --> 01:25:33,289
because I was, at the time,
the president of the label,

1561
01:25:33,378 --> 01:25:34,494
or, you know...

1562
01:25:39,217 --> 01:25:43,052
♪ Oh, you ♪

1563
01:25:43,138 --> 01:25:45,801
♪ Light up my life ♪

1564
01:25:47,809 --> 01:25:49,971
♪ You give me hope ♪

1565
01:25:50,062 --> 01:25:53,396
♪ To carry on ♪

1566
01:25:53,482 --> 01:25:56,566
♪ Oh, you light up
my day, Lord ♪

1567
01:25:56,652 --> 01:26:00,145
♪ And fill my night ♪

1568
01:26:00,238 --> 01:26:02,696
♪ With song... ♪

1569
01:26:02,783 --> 01:26:05,241
She was having problems
with her voice,

1570
01:26:05,327 --> 01:26:09,446
but the magic still
showed up... now and then.

1571
01:26:09,539 --> 01:26:12,748
One time I was in Newport
recording a song.

1572
01:26:12,834 --> 01:26:16,669
That day, it was just like
the old, young...

1573
01:26:16,755 --> 01:26:19,873
beautiful voice
coming out of Whitney

1574
01:26:19,966 --> 01:26:22,379
that we all grew up with.

1575
01:26:22,469 --> 01:26:25,962
And it was so magical
that it brought me to tears.

1576
01:26:26,056 --> 01:26:27,672
It was just like...

1577
01:26:27,766 --> 01:26:29,758
I mean, I even have
goosebumps right now

1578
01:26:29,851 --> 01:26:31,183
just thinking about it.

1579
01:26:31,269 --> 01:26:33,682
I can just feel them
taking over my body,

1580
01:26:33,772 --> 01:26:37,391
'cause it was so wonderful.
And I was just...

1581
01:26:37,484 --> 01:26:40,022
I was like, "This is it.
This is what we need."

1582
01:26:40,112 --> 01:26:44,356
And there was just a few hours
of that, that was just like...

1583
01:26:44,449 --> 01:26:45,815
That was one of
the highlights

1584
01:26:45,909 --> 01:26:49,448
of the entire four years
that I was around her.

1585
01:26:53,709 --> 01:26:55,701
♪ If you can't
feed your baby ♪

1586
01:26:55,794 --> 01:26:57,501
♪ Then don't have a baby ♪

1587
01:26:57,587 --> 01:26:59,453
♪ And don't think maybe ♪

1588
01:26:59,548 --> 01:27:03,588
We denied rumors about
her drug-taking for years.

1589
01:27:03,677 --> 01:27:06,590
But four days before 9/11,

1590
01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:10,173
Whitney did a concert
for Michael Jackson.

1591
01:27:10,267 --> 01:27:13,135
She looked so bad.

1592
01:27:13,228 --> 01:27:14,890
The cat was out of the bag.

1593
01:27:17,649 --> 01:27:20,892
The record company felt she
had to do a sit-down interview

1594
01:27:20,986 --> 01:27:22,568
and talk about this.

1595
01:27:22,654 --> 01:27:24,691
Everybody watching this is

1596
01:27:24,781 --> 01:27:27,945
is gonna be staring at you
physically.

1597
01:27:28,034 --> 01:27:30,868
And they're gonna be saying,
"How thin is she now?"

1598
01:27:30,954 --> 01:27:32,536
- Yeah.
- "Is she sick?"

1599
01:27:32,622 --> 01:27:35,239
I'm not sick, Diane.

1600
01:27:35,333 --> 01:27:36,949
I am not sick.

1601
01:27:37,043 --> 01:27:39,706
The bones. That's real.

1602
01:27:39,796 --> 01:27:41,412
Yeah, my bones, yeah.

1603
01:27:41,506 --> 01:27:45,841
- I'm 5'7" and thin.
- But that's not just thin.

1604
01:27:45,927 --> 01:27:49,762
No? What is it, Diane?
Tell me.

1605
01:27:49,848 --> 01:27:52,841
Is it alcohol?
Is it marijuana?

1606
01:27:52,934 --> 01:27:54,971
Is it cocaine? Is it pills?

1607
01:27:57,731 --> 01:28:00,223
It has been. At times.

1608
01:28:00,317 --> 01:28:01,853
All?

1609
01:28:01,943 --> 01:28:03,809
At times.

1610
01:28:03,904 --> 01:28:05,736
I was in the room...

1611
01:28:08,366 --> 01:28:12,781
And it just made me
start sweating.

1612
01:28:12,871 --> 01:28:16,035
If you had to name
the devil, for you,

1613
01:28:16,124 --> 01:28:18,741
the biggest devil among them?

1614
01:28:20,670 --> 01:28:22,957
That would be me.

1615
01:28:25,717 --> 01:28:28,380
I knew it was a disaster.

1616
01:28:28,470 --> 01:28:30,587
Crack is cheap.

1617
01:28:30,680 --> 01:28:32,763
I make too much money
to ever smoke crack.

1618
01:28:32,849 --> 01:28:34,966
Let's get that straight,
okay?

1619
01:28:35,060 --> 01:28:36,892
We don't do crack.

1620
01:28:36,978 --> 01:28:40,096
We don't do that.
Crack is whack.

1621
01:28:40,190 --> 01:28:43,433
I saw that interview, and I thought,
"Why are we here?

1622
01:28:43,527 --> 01:28:45,018
Why are we doing this?"

1623
01:28:45,111 --> 01:28:47,319
I always thought,
"Why are we doing this?

1624
01:28:47,405 --> 01:28:49,488
Why are we not doing
the one thing

1625
01:28:49,574 --> 01:28:52,282
that would make the difference
for her life?"

1626
01:28:53,161 --> 01:28:54,868
Which was getting well.

1627
01:28:54,955 --> 01:28:57,163
I pray every day, Diane.

1628
01:28:59,709 --> 01:29:01,291
I'm not the strongest
every day,

1629
01:29:01,378 --> 01:29:03,040
but I'm not
the weakest either.

1630
01:29:03,129 --> 01:29:05,337
And I won't break.

1631
01:29:05,423 --> 01:29:07,540
It's Whitney Houston
and Bobby Brown!

1632
01:29:07,634 --> 01:29:09,375
Whoo!

1633
01:29:09,469 --> 01:29:11,711
After our interview
with Diane Sawyer

1634
01:29:11,805 --> 01:29:14,092
I... I haven't
been able to sleep.

1635
01:29:14,182 --> 01:29:17,346
Yeah, and I haven't been able
to stop sweating.

1636
01:29:17,435 --> 01:29:18,892
Your favorite song

1637
01:29:18,979 --> 01:29:21,312
sung by America's sweetheart,
Whitney Houston.

1638
01:29:21,398 --> 01:29:23,560
Come on, Daddy, I...
I need my fix.

1639
01:29:23,650 --> 01:29:24,891
Remember the deal,
Whitney.

1640
01:29:24,985 --> 01:29:27,068
First you sing, then you get
your precious cocaine.

1641
01:29:27,153 --> 01:29:30,646
She's high, and we've recorded
her on her double CD collection.

1642
01:29:30,740 --> 01:29:33,733
Listen as she screws up
one song after another.

1643
01:29:33,827 --> 01:29:35,193
I need help, baby.

1644
01:29:35,287 --> 01:29:36,949
I need to get off
this touring crap.

1645
01:29:37,038 --> 01:29:40,247
♪ No matter what
they take from me ♪

1646
01:29:40,333 --> 01:29:44,748
♪ They can't take away
my dignity ♪

1647
01:29:44,838 --> 01:29:47,751
Come on, Whitney,
go get it.

1648
01:29:47,841 --> 01:29:50,208
It's just a joke to people?
Really?

1649
01:29:51,636 --> 01:29:53,502
Whitney Houston
is a joke to you now?

1650
01:29:53,597 --> 01:29:56,214
You're gonna laugh?
Well, fuck you.

1651
01:29:58,059 --> 01:30:00,676
This is the greatest singer
that ever walked the earth.

1652
01:30:00,770 --> 01:30:04,639
Beloved by millions and
millions all over the world.

1653
01:30:04,733 --> 01:30:06,190
She's not a tabloid star.

1654
01:30:07,819 --> 01:30:10,653
It's hard to understand the isolation

1655
01:30:10,739 --> 01:30:13,356
of that kind of
tabloid fame.

1656
01:30:13,450 --> 01:30:15,817
Michael Jackson
would call her sometimes,

1657
01:30:15,911 --> 01:30:20,451
and she would go over and sit
with him in his hotel room.

1658
01:30:20,540 --> 01:30:23,374
And they wouldn't even
say anything to each other.

1659
01:30:23,460 --> 01:30:24,917
But they just...

1660
01:30:25,003 --> 01:30:27,040
They understood each other.

1661
01:30:27,130 --> 01:30:29,622
They both... They were...

1662
01:30:29,716 --> 01:30:31,378
two of the few people
in the world

1663
01:30:31,468 --> 01:30:35,758
who could understand
what their circumstances were.

1664
01:30:35,847 --> 01:30:38,840
And it was just being close
to each other.

1665
01:30:40,518 --> 01:30:43,135
Whitney Houston
has checked into rehab again.

1666
01:30:43,229 --> 01:30:45,812
Houston last checked herself
into a rehabilitation center

1667
01:30:45,899 --> 01:30:47,515
a year ago.

1668
01:30:47,609 --> 01:30:49,441
Houston said she is using
the power of prayer

1669
01:30:49,527 --> 01:30:51,393
to help her get over
her addiction.

1670
01:30:51,488 --> 01:30:53,696
A number of times
she went away into rehab,

1671
01:30:53,782 --> 01:30:55,865
and she never managed
to get clean.

1672
01:30:55,951 --> 01:30:57,943
I know it's
a pretty complicated answer,

1673
01:30:58,036 --> 01:31:00,073
- but why was that?
- No, I don't think...

1674
01:31:00,163 --> 01:31:01,620
It's not complicated.

1675
01:31:01,706 --> 01:31:05,040
Because...
to go into treatment,

1676
01:31:05,126 --> 01:31:07,243
you have to go for you.

1677
01:31:07,337 --> 01:31:10,000
Not for someone else.

1678
01:31:10,090 --> 01:31:13,674
And you have to tell
the real problem.

1679
01:31:18,974 --> 01:31:21,762
I think there's always
something in your childhood

1680
01:31:21,851 --> 01:31:23,843
that makes you do drugs.

1681
01:31:26,481 --> 01:31:29,224
Is there something in
your childhood that's made it

1682
01:31:29,317 --> 01:31:32,435
particularly difficult
to escape the addiction?

1683
01:31:32,529 --> 01:31:34,486
I remember a lot of different things

1684
01:31:34,572 --> 01:31:36,859
going on in my life
that were different.

1685
01:31:36,950 --> 01:31:38,987
What sort of things?

1686
01:31:39,077 --> 01:31:42,445
You know, being a...
being a child,

1687
01:31:42,539 --> 01:31:44,075
being 8 or 9 years old...

1688
01:31:44,165 --> 01:31:45,872
Seven, 8, 9 years old,

1689
01:31:45,959 --> 01:31:50,249
and being kinda molested
by a female...

1690
01:31:50,338 --> 01:31:53,922
a family member of mine.
You know.

1691
01:31:54,009 --> 01:31:56,422
- That bothered you a lot?
- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

1692
01:31:56,511 --> 01:31:59,174
My mother and father
were gone a lot.

1693
01:31:59,264 --> 01:32:01,802
So we stayed with
a lot of different people.

1694
01:32:01,891 --> 01:32:03,974
Me and my brother
and my sister stayed with

1695
01:32:04,060 --> 01:32:07,019
four or five different
families who took care of us.

1696
01:32:09,357 --> 01:32:12,600
Gary told me that he suffered
sexual abuse as a child.

1697
01:32:12,694 --> 01:32:14,435
Did you ever hear
that the same thing

1698
01:32:14,529 --> 01:32:16,020
happened to Whitney?

1699
01:32:16,781 --> 01:32:18,613
I have heard it.

1700
01:32:20,785 --> 01:32:23,323
I have heard it.

1701
01:32:23,413 --> 01:32:27,828
I couldn't figure out why she
would always be on my case

1702
01:32:27,917 --> 01:32:30,830
about my daughter Reya.

1703
01:32:30,920 --> 01:32:33,128
If we were doing
a business trip,

1704
01:32:33,214 --> 01:32:38,710
she never liked the idea
of me leaving her behind.

1705
01:32:39,888 --> 01:32:41,800
And then, as mothers,

1706
01:32:41,890 --> 01:32:45,349
we talked,
and she explained to me why.

1707
01:32:49,189 --> 01:32:50,976
We was talking one day,

1708
01:32:51,066 --> 01:32:52,807
'cause she knows my sister,

1709
01:32:52,901 --> 01:32:57,066
and my sister was molested
at an early age.

1710
01:32:57,155 --> 01:32:58,942
And she looked up at me,

1711
01:32:59,032 --> 01:33:02,446
and she says,
"Mary, I was too."

1712
01:33:02,535 --> 01:33:04,117
I said, "Huh?"

1713
01:33:04,204 --> 01:33:07,868
She said, "Yeah, I was
molested at a young age too."

1714
01:33:07,957 --> 01:33:11,792
She said, "But it wasn't
a man, it was a woman."

1715
01:33:12,921 --> 01:33:15,129
And she had tears
in her eyes.

1716
01:33:15,215 --> 01:33:18,674
She says, "Mommy don't know
the things we went through."

1717
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:24,430
I said, "Nip, have you
ever told your mother?"

1718
01:33:24,516 --> 01:33:27,759
She says, "No."

1719
01:33:27,852 --> 01:33:30,390
I said, "Well, maybe
you need to tell her."

1720
01:33:30,480 --> 01:33:32,312
She said,
"You don't know my mother.

1721
01:33:32,398 --> 01:33:36,233
My mother would hurt somebody
if I told her who it was."

1722
01:33:37,779 --> 01:33:40,647
And she just had tears
rolling down her eyes,

1723
01:33:40,740 --> 01:33:42,823
and I just hugged her.

1724
01:33:42,909 --> 01:33:45,322
I said, "Well, one day,
when you get the nerve,

1725
01:33:45,411 --> 01:33:47,431
you need to tell your mother,
and it will lift the burden.

1726
01:33:47,455 --> 01:33:50,289
I'm telling you,
it will lift the burden off you."

1727
01:33:52,836 --> 01:33:54,748
What makes you angry?

1728
01:33:54,838 --> 01:33:56,625
Child abuse makes me angry.

1729
01:33:56,714 --> 01:33:59,127
Why child abuse?
You come from a loving family.

1730
01:33:59,217 --> 01:34:02,301
'Cause, I hate to see kids...
'Cause for children...

1731
01:34:02,387 --> 01:34:06,757
It bothers me that
children who are helpless,

1732
01:34:06,850 --> 01:34:08,887
who depend on adults,

1733
01:34:08,977 --> 01:34:11,185
for their security
and for their caring,

1734
01:34:11,271 --> 01:34:13,513
and for their love...

1735
01:34:13,606 --> 01:34:16,394
It just... It bothers me.
It makes me angry.

1736
01:34:20,321 --> 01:34:22,529
Did she tell you who it was?

1737
01:34:26,119 --> 01:34:29,203
Yes. She did.

1738
01:34:31,166 --> 01:34:33,158
She did.

1739
01:34:33,251 --> 01:34:35,789
Gary told me that it was
Dee Dee Warwick,

1740
01:34:35,879 --> 01:34:37,711
his aunt, Dionne's sister.

1741
01:34:37,797 --> 01:34:39,663
Is that what she told you?

1742
01:34:39,757 --> 01:34:42,374
Yeah, that's what
she told me.

1743
01:34:42,468 --> 01:34:44,755
"It was Dee Dee."
And I said, "What?"

1744
01:34:44,846 --> 01:34:46,803
She said, "Yeah."

1745
01:34:53,271 --> 01:34:56,435
♪ What can you do? ♪

1746
01:34:57,901 --> 01:35:00,609
♪ What can you say? ♪

1747
01:35:02,488 --> 01:35:06,778
♪ When you find love ♪

1748
01:35:06,868 --> 01:35:09,952
♪ Slipping away? ♪

1749
01:35:17,629 --> 01:35:21,213
I think she was ashamed.

1750
01:35:21,299 --> 01:35:23,541
She used to say,
"I wondered did I do something

1751
01:35:23,635 --> 01:35:25,797
to make her think
I wanted her."

1752
01:35:25,887 --> 01:35:29,380
And I had to say,
"Stop it. Stop it."

1753
01:35:32,227 --> 01:35:34,810
"A predator is a predator."

1754
01:35:36,397 --> 01:35:38,935
If Cissy had have known
it was happening,

1755
01:35:39,025 --> 01:35:41,859
she would have
done something about it.

1756
01:35:41,945 --> 01:35:45,313
Because Cissy
loves her children.

1757
01:35:45,406 --> 01:35:47,648
What do you think the long-term effects

1758
01:35:47,742 --> 01:35:49,153
of the abuse were?

1759
01:35:49,244 --> 01:35:55,366
It made her question
her sexual... preference.

1760
01:35:55,458 --> 01:35:59,748
And I think that's why
she really wanted a family,

1761
01:35:59,837 --> 01:36:01,874
a husband, children,

1762
01:36:01,965 --> 01:36:06,756
to make her feel that this is
what's supposed to happen.

1763
01:36:06,844 --> 01:36:09,507
Do you think she understood herself?

1764
01:36:09,597 --> 01:36:12,180
No.

1765
01:36:12,267 --> 01:36:14,850
I think she was trying
to find herself.

1766
01:36:17,313 --> 01:36:20,431
She was a good actress.

1767
01:36:20,525 --> 01:36:22,232
I always used to tell them:

1768
01:36:22,318 --> 01:36:25,311
"Whitney's in there somewhere,
but she's trapped."

1769
01:36:28,283 --> 01:36:30,741
Wake up! Wake up, Nippy!

1770
01:36:30,827 --> 01:36:32,284
Nippy!

1771
01:36:32,370 --> 01:36:34,157
Are you in there?

1772
01:36:34,247 --> 01:36:38,537
Whitney calling Nippy, Whitney
calling Nippy. Whitney calling Nippy.

1773
01:36:38,626 --> 01:36:42,085
She won't answer. She's really
being non-cooperative today.

1774
01:36:42,171 --> 01:36:44,879
- When she's ready to go...
- Nippy calling Whitney.

1775
01:36:44,966 --> 01:36:46,673
Yes, hi!

1776
01:36:46,759 --> 01:36:49,297
See, Nippy can call Whitney,
but Whitney can't call Nippy.

1777
01:36:49,387 --> 01:36:52,221
It would be too dangerous
for everyone.

1778
01:36:54,142 --> 01:36:55,678
Oh, my God.

1779
01:36:55,768 --> 01:36:58,101
All that praise. All that money.

1780
01:36:58,187 --> 01:36:59,644
She'd reaped
all these things

1781
01:36:59,731 --> 01:37:01,688
from that talent
and that beauty,

1782
01:37:01,774 --> 01:37:06,314
but it still wasn't gonna be
enough for what she really...

1783
01:37:06,404 --> 01:37:10,114
she really wanted.

1784
01:37:10,199 --> 01:37:13,988
If you can't know who you are,
nothing's gonna save you.

1785
01:37:15,580 --> 01:37:16,866
I feel like...

1786
01:37:16,956 --> 01:37:19,289
♪ You and me
against the world ♪

1787
01:37:19,375 --> 01:37:21,913
♪ Sometimes it feels like ♪

1788
01:37:22,003 --> 01:37:25,997
♪ Just me against this whole
motherfucking world ♪

1789
01:37:26,090 --> 01:37:28,707
I'm sure you've never seen me
like this before.

1790
01:37:28,801 --> 01:37:30,633
$150 and a water bottle...

1791
01:37:30,720 --> 01:37:33,554
Just as beautiful
as every other day of your life.

1792
01:37:33,639 --> 01:37:35,221
Ah.

1793
01:37:36,434 --> 01:37:38,517
Ah...

1794
01:37:38,603 --> 01:37:42,187
In the end, there was no drive,
there was no interest.

1795
01:37:43,399 --> 01:37:45,516
There seemed to be no vanity.

1796
01:37:55,787 --> 01:37:59,030
Someone who's not
really alive, right?

1797
01:37:59,123 --> 01:38:02,036
Like a zombie... in some ways.

1798
01:38:02,126 --> 01:38:04,413
I mean,
not feeding off anyone but...

1799
01:38:06,130 --> 01:38:07,746
Roaming.

1800
01:38:45,920 --> 01:38:49,334
She went to Georgia
to get away from everybody.

1801
01:38:51,759 --> 01:38:54,672
She could run away
from her mother.

1802
01:38:54,762 --> 01:38:57,550
She could run away from me.

1803
01:38:57,640 --> 01:38:59,882
She could run away from
the people that would say:

1804
01:38:59,976 --> 01:39:04,061
"No, goddamn it,
it ain't happening this way."

1805
01:39:04,147 --> 01:39:05,763
She went down there to visit

1806
01:39:05,857 --> 01:39:08,770
and never came back home.
Ha-ha-ha.

1807
01:39:08,860 --> 01:39:13,321
Her home here in New Jersey
was still completely packed.

1808
01:39:13,406 --> 01:39:16,194
There was food
in the refrigerator.

1809
01:39:16,284 --> 01:39:18,276
There were clothes
in the drawers.

1810
01:39:20,788 --> 01:39:23,075
Did you live in
the Georgia house with them?

1811
01:39:23,166 --> 01:39:26,659
No, sir. Wouldn't have if I was asked.

1812
01:39:27,670 --> 01:39:30,583
It was dark and evilness.

1813
01:39:31,966 --> 01:39:34,208
You know, she always...
And I'd go in,

1814
01:39:34,302 --> 01:39:36,715
I said, "No, we gotta
open the blinds.

1815
01:39:36,804 --> 01:39:39,012
Evil dwell in the dark."

1816
01:39:42,310 --> 01:39:44,927
Bobby would say
awful things to her.

1817
01:39:46,481 --> 01:39:49,064
She would come in
with tears running,

1818
01:39:49,150 --> 01:39:51,187
and I said,
"Come on in here with me.

1819
01:39:51,277 --> 01:39:54,270
Let him calm down."

1820
01:39:54,363 --> 01:39:57,447
And I said, "You can't keep
letting him do this to you."

1821
01:39:57,533 --> 01:39:59,525
"I know, I know,
I know, Mary."

1822
01:40:01,954 --> 01:40:03,661
I used to try to keep Krissi

1823
01:40:03,748 --> 01:40:06,491
out of her mother
and father's room.

1824
01:40:06,584 --> 01:40:08,951
One day I came,
and she had been in there.

1825
01:40:09,045 --> 01:40:10,832
She was looking at me,
and I said:

1826
01:40:10,922 --> 01:40:12,663
"Krissi, why did you
go in the room?"

1827
01:40:12,757 --> 01:40:15,875
"Well, I was looking for
something, Auntie Mary."

1828
01:40:15,968 --> 01:40:17,800
She said, "What the hell...?"

1829
01:40:17,887 --> 01:40:19,970
I said, "Krissi..."

1830
01:40:20,056 --> 01:40:21,718
What did she see?

1831
01:40:21,807 --> 01:40:26,598
Oh, her father
used to like to... draw

1832
01:40:26,687 --> 01:40:32,934
all these devils and demons
on the floors and the walls.

1833
01:40:33,027 --> 01:40:37,613
And... it was something
out of a storybook to me.

1834
01:40:39,617 --> 01:40:41,779
It was... Wow.

1835
01:40:53,464 --> 01:40:57,549
She was the best mother
she knew how to be.

1836
01:40:57,635 --> 01:41:00,378
But you've got to have
that motherly love,

1837
01:41:00,471 --> 01:41:03,339
and I just don't know
if she knew how to give it.

1838
01:41:07,520 --> 01:41:09,933
The things Krissi
had to endure,

1839
01:41:10,022 --> 01:41:12,435
no one would ever imagine.

1840
01:41:15,319 --> 01:41:18,437
They didn't take care
of Krissi.

1841
01:41:18,531 --> 01:41:20,989
They just left her to the wolves.

1842
01:41:22,493 --> 01:41:24,951
She never had a chance.

1843
01:41:32,461 --> 01:41:34,578
She'd never seen a normal life.

1844
01:41:36,799 --> 01:41:41,294
She was the companion of an
alcoholic and a drug addict.

1845
01:41:41,387 --> 01:41:43,674
And that was what
she learned to be.

1846
01:41:52,106 --> 01:41:55,770
Whitney asked me
to meet her at the hospital.

1847
01:41:57,361 --> 01:42:01,822
Krissi had taken a knife
and slashed her arms.

1848
01:42:06,454 --> 01:42:08,446
That's awful.

1849
01:42:10,124 --> 01:42:13,538
- Why did she do it?
- She hated her life.

1850
01:42:14,837 --> 01:42:17,625
She hated her mother.

1851
01:42:17,715 --> 01:42:19,923
She even went
as far as writing:

1852
01:42:20,009 --> 01:42:22,968
"I wish I could find
a way to kill her

1853
01:42:23,054 --> 01:42:25,137
and no one
find out about it."

1854
01:42:27,975 --> 01:42:30,183
The very public
and very troubled marriage

1855
01:42:30,269 --> 01:42:31,976
has come to an end.

1856
01:42:32,063 --> 01:42:33,725
Whitney Houston
has filed for divorce

1857
01:42:33,814 --> 01:42:35,225
from her husband
Bobby Brown.

1858
01:42:35,316 --> 01:42:37,228
The two singers,
who have one child,

1859
01:42:37,318 --> 01:42:39,310
have been married
for 14 years.

1860
01:42:39,403 --> 01:42:40,735
I'm surprised
it lasted that long.

1861
01:42:40,821 --> 01:42:42,562
Anderson, back to you.

1862
01:42:42,657 --> 01:42:44,899
A lot of people felt it was coming.

1863
01:42:44,992 --> 01:42:47,075
I appreciate that.
We'll check in with you

1864
01:42:47,161 --> 01:42:49,118
for other headlines
coming up.

1865
01:42:49,205 --> 01:42:52,039
That was a hard battle
to come back from.

1866
01:42:52,124 --> 01:42:55,083
People saying,
"I told you so. I told you so."

1867
01:42:57,922 --> 01:43:04,135
♪ So I'm saving all my love for you ♪

1868
01:43:06,889 --> 01:43:11,054
I remember Whitney
crying about Bobby.

1869
01:43:11,143 --> 01:43:13,351
Krissi would go over
and just rock her

1870
01:43:13,437 --> 01:43:15,679
and say,
"Oh, Ma, it's okay.

1871
01:43:15,773 --> 01:43:18,186
It's okay, Ma, don't cry.

1872
01:43:18,275 --> 01:43:22,110
He's gone so we gonna
let him be gone."

1873
01:43:22,196 --> 01:43:25,109
She said,
"I'm a failure. I failed."

1874
01:43:29,495 --> 01:43:31,737
But then she started
getting it together.

1875
01:43:31,831 --> 01:43:36,041
And started biting to make
it right for Bobbi Kristina.

1876
01:43:37,712 --> 01:43:39,169
For the very first time,

1877
01:43:39,255 --> 01:43:41,668
she was determined
to become clean.

1878
01:43:43,008 --> 01:43:45,751
She went to rehab
in California

1879
01:43:45,845 --> 01:43:47,962
for about seven
to eight months,

1880
01:43:48,055 --> 01:43:49,887
but she couldn't
complete the program

1881
01:43:49,974 --> 01:43:53,012
because she didn't have
any money, nothing.

1882
01:43:53,102 --> 01:43:55,389
She'd gone dry.

1883
01:43:55,479 --> 01:43:57,687
It was tour time.

1884
01:43:57,773 --> 01:44:00,265
They went from ka-ching to ka-trouble.

1885
01:44:00,359 --> 01:44:03,147
Now Whitney Houston is trying
to turn it all around

1886
01:44:03,237 --> 01:44:05,900
and pop back
to profitability.

1887
01:44:05,990 --> 01:44:08,073
She says,
"Don't call it a comeback,"

1888
01:44:08,159 --> 01:44:10,262
but it's kind of what people are talking
about, so it sort of is a comeback.

1889
01:44:10,286 --> 01:44:12,824
When we heard
about the final tour,

1890
01:44:12,913 --> 01:44:14,905
nobody wanted her to go.

1891
01:44:14,999 --> 01:44:18,117
Clive begged for her
not to go.

1892
01:44:18,210 --> 01:44:20,827
But at that point,
management felt

1893
01:44:20,921 --> 01:44:23,834
that without that money,
she'd be homeless.

1894
01:44:23,924 --> 01:44:25,790
The wait is almost over.

1895
01:44:25,885 --> 01:44:27,877
Fans at the Brisbane
Entertainment Center

1896
01:44:27,970 --> 01:44:30,587
walked out on her performance
in disgust.

1897
01:44:30,681 --> 01:44:33,298
Whitney Houston's comeback tour
has hit yet another snag,

1898
01:44:33,392 --> 01:44:36,851
as hundreds of fans walked out
of a recent show in Denmark.

1899
01:44:36,937 --> 01:44:39,771
Words like "shambolic" and
"horrendous" have been bandied about.

1900
01:44:39,857 --> 01:44:42,144
Definitely not worth $165.

1901
01:44:42,234 --> 01:44:44,851
She couldn't entertain
a dead rat.

1902
01:44:44,945 --> 01:44:48,154
♪ And I... ♪

1903
01:44:50,409 --> 01:44:52,275
♪ I will always ♪

1904
01:44:52,369 --> 01:44:54,782
♪ Love you ♪

1905
01:44:54,872 --> 01:44:56,238
♪ You ♪

1906
01:44:56,332 --> 01:45:00,372
♪ I will always ♪

1907
01:45:00,461 --> 01:45:02,703
♪ Love you ♪

1908
01:45:04,173 --> 01:45:06,005
♪ You always ♪

1909
01:45:06,091 --> 01:45:08,128
♪ Always love ♪

1910
01:45:08,219 --> 01:45:11,428
♪ Love you ♪

1911
01:45:12,056 --> 01:45:14,969
♪ You, I ♪

1912
01:45:15,059 --> 01:45:17,802
♪ I'll always love ♪

1913
01:45:17,895 --> 01:45:20,603
♪ You ♪

1914
01:45:31,075 --> 01:45:34,534
Whitney meant so much to black America.

1915
01:45:35,788 --> 01:45:37,529
We had a service for her

1916
01:45:37,623 --> 01:45:40,411
at Abyssinian Baptist church
in New York.

1917
01:45:40,501 --> 01:45:43,289
I suspected there'd be a
couple of dozen people there.

1918
01:45:43,379 --> 01:45:47,293
The church was packed,
2000 people on a weeknight,

1919
01:45:47,383 --> 01:45:49,716
to pray for Whitney Houston.

1920
01:45:52,012 --> 01:45:55,050
I mean, by that time,
her demons were public.

1921
01:45:55,140 --> 01:45:59,054
By that time, we were all
concerned about her future.

1922
01:45:59,144 --> 01:46:01,932
And just the people
who don't know her

1923
01:46:02,022 --> 01:46:06,517
gather because when one
Whitney Houston emerges,

1924
01:46:06,610 --> 01:46:11,730
black America
clings to that star.

1925
01:46:11,824 --> 01:46:13,781
It's about much more
than music.

1926
01:46:13,868 --> 01:46:17,782
♪ Through the storm, through the night ♪

1927
01:46:17,872 --> 01:46:19,579
♪ Lead me home... ♪

1928
01:46:19,665 --> 01:46:21,531
Whitney Houston will be back

1929
01:46:21,625 --> 01:46:25,494
on big screens across America,
starring in Sparkle,

1930
01:46:25,588 --> 01:46:27,454
a remake of
her favorite film,

1931
01:46:27,548 --> 01:46:29,835
one she would watch
over and over as a teen

1932
01:46:29,925 --> 01:46:31,666
back in the '70s.

1933
01:46:42,646 --> 01:46:44,103
You got five minutes.

1934
01:46:46,233 --> 01:46:48,020
She wanted to do the movie.

1935
01:46:50,362 --> 01:46:52,479
She needed the job.

1936
01:46:53,991 --> 01:46:57,610
There was no more
music career.

1937
01:46:57,703 --> 01:47:02,323
The deal was that she would
have a drug test every week.

1938
01:47:02,416 --> 01:47:03,952
You look tired.

1939
01:47:05,502 --> 01:47:07,585
She's climbing out of a hole.

1940
01:47:08,756 --> 01:47:10,998
I am.

1941
01:47:11,091 --> 01:47:14,051
It was like, "If this is what I
have to do, it's what I have to do."

1942
01:47:15,638 --> 01:47:17,755
In the first rehearsal,
she looked terrible.

1943
01:47:17,848 --> 01:47:20,556
She was bloated,
she was slurry.

1944
01:47:20,643 --> 01:47:25,354
And then she
cleaned herself up.

1945
01:47:27,733 --> 01:47:29,349
When she wasn't working,

1946
01:47:29,443 --> 01:47:32,857
she'd sit on set
just to hang out with people.

1947
01:47:32,947 --> 01:47:35,781
Saturday night, took all
the cast out to celebrate.

1948
01:47:35,866 --> 01:47:38,279
I invited her.
She showed up.

1949
01:47:38,369 --> 01:47:41,032
She went to the football game
with some of the guys.

1950
01:47:41,121 --> 01:47:44,865
I mean, she really, really,
really was there.

1951
01:47:47,878 --> 01:47:50,837
I remember
midway through the shoot,

1952
01:47:50,923 --> 01:47:53,165
and I'd walk towards
the hair and makeup trailer,

1953
01:47:53,258 --> 01:47:56,092
and I'd hear
this gospel music blasting.

1954
01:47:56,178 --> 01:47:58,010
It's, like, 5:00
in the morning,

1955
01:47:58,097 --> 01:48:00,259
and she's in there singing,

1956
01:48:00,349 --> 01:48:02,181
bright-eyed...

1957
01:48:02,267 --> 01:48:04,475
You know, happy.

1958
01:48:04,561 --> 01:48:07,099
I said, "What are you on?"

1959
01:48:07,189 --> 01:48:09,647
And both of us looked at each
other and burst out laughing

1960
01:48:09,733 --> 01:48:11,395
because she wasn't
on anything.

1961
01:48:11,485 --> 01:48:13,351
This was joy,

1962
01:48:13,445 --> 01:48:17,064
and I think it was the joy
of having a purpose.

1963
01:48:17,157 --> 01:48:20,275
Of being able
to get up in the morning

1964
01:48:20,369 --> 01:48:22,406
and know you had a job.

1965
01:48:22,496 --> 01:48:25,284
You had people who wanted
to be around you.

1966
01:48:25,374 --> 01:48:27,457
You were a part of
a community.

1967
01:48:27,543 --> 01:48:31,753
And I really saw her
come back to life.

1968
01:48:31,839 --> 01:48:35,207
- ♪ I sing ♪
- ♪ I sing ♪

1969
01:48:35,300 --> 01:48:38,839
- ♪ I sing because ♪
- ♪ Because ♪

1970
01:48:38,929 --> 01:48:42,843
- ♪ I'm happy ♪
- Choir: ♪ Happy ♪

1971
01:48:42,933 --> 01:48:45,016
- ♪ Hallelujah ♪
- All: Hallelujah.

1972
01:48:45,102 --> 01:48:47,469
- ♪ I sing ♪
- Choir: ♪ I sing ♪

1973
01:48:47,563 --> 01:48:50,351
- ♪ I sing because ♪
- Choir: ♪ Because ♪

1974
01:48:50,441 --> 01:48:55,186
- ♪ I'm free ♪
- Choir: ♪ I'm free ♪

1975
01:48:55,279 --> 01:48:58,238
On the last day, she said:

1976
01:48:58,323 --> 01:48:59,814
"I got an idea
for our next movie.

1977
01:48:59,908 --> 01:49:01,649
It's gonna be
David and Bathsheba.

1978
01:49:01,744 --> 01:49:03,451
Me and Mel Gibson."

1979
01:49:03,537 --> 01:49:06,951
I was like, "Well, Whitney,
I don't know about that one."

1980
01:49:07,041 --> 01:49:09,078
I said, you know,
"I think..."

1981
01:49:09,168 --> 01:49:11,034
She was...
had an early morning flight.

1982
01:49:11,128 --> 01:49:12,369
"This is gonna be great.

1983
01:49:12,463 --> 01:49:13,920
We'll figure out
other stuff to do.

1984
01:49:14,006 --> 01:49:16,214
You just go back home."

1985
01:49:16,300 --> 01:49:19,793
It wasn't until her wake...

1986
01:49:19,887 --> 01:49:23,972
that her bodyguard
came over to me and he said...

1987
01:49:25,476 --> 01:49:28,344
"You know,
she didn't take that flight."

1988
01:49:28,437 --> 01:49:30,599
I mean,
nobody ever told me.

1989
01:49:31,815 --> 01:49:34,558
She didn't want to leave.

1990
01:49:34,651 --> 01:49:40,568
She, um... She stayed, like,
an extra three or four days...

1991
01:49:40,657 --> 01:49:45,368
And finally, she had him
drive her back to Atlanta.

1992
01:49:47,581 --> 01:49:51,120
I just don't think
she wanted to leave.

1993
01:49:51,210 --> 01:49:55,124
Because she had purpose
and people who loved her.

1994
01:49:55,214 --> 01:50:00,881
And I can just see her going
back to, you know, Alpharetta

1995
01:50:00,969 --> 01:50:03,586
and waking up
in the morning...

1996
01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:08,175
Or, more likely,
in the afternoon...

1997
01:50:08,268 --> 01:50:10,681
with no reason
to get out of bed

1998
01:50:10,771 --> 01:50:12,763
and nothing on the horizon.

1999
01:50:12,856 --> 01:50:16,190
And I just think she went home
and went back in the hole.

2000
01:50:19,571 --> 01:50:21,654
Well...

2001
01:50:21,740 --> 01:50:23,527
we've finally come...

2002
01:50:24,576 --> 01:50:26,613
♪ To an end ♪

2003
01:50:27,830 --> 01:50:29,571
♪ Oh, well ♪

2004
01:50:29,665 --> 01:50:31,702
♪ We've finally come ♪

2005
01:50:32,459 --> 01:50:34,451
♪ To the end ♪

2006
01:50:36,171 --> 01:50:39,664
♪ Story is over ♪

2007
01:50:39,758 --> 01:50:42,296
No, we haven't
come to the end.

2008
01:50:42,386 --> 01:50:45,845
- When is the end?
- When you say so.

2009
01:50:48,892 --> 01:50:50,508
Mm.

2010
01:51:04,908 --> 01:51:09,573
She came to my room early...
of the morning in question.

2011
01:51:11,582 --> 01:51:16,748
And she started talking about...
John the Baptist.

2012
01:51:16,837 --> 01:51:19,124
And she said... She laid her
head on my shoulder,

2013
01:51:19,214 --> 01:51:20,876
and she had her arm
around my waist.

2014
01:51:20,966 --> 01:51:23,674
She said, "We're gonna be
together one day, Ray."

2015
01:51:23,760 --> 01:51:25,672
She says, "Mary...

2016
01:51:28,056 --> 01:51:31,345
...I gotta get
my shit together."

2017
01:51:31,435 --> 01:51:33,802
She said,
"'Cause I got to see Jesus."

2018
01:51:36,648 --> 01:51:39,686
And I gave her this look,
like, "Right."

2019
01:51:39,776 --> 01:51:41,984
She asked me to set up
my box up for her,

2020
01:51:42,070 --> 01:51:43,686
so she could listen
to the music.

2021
01:51:43,780 --> 01:51:46,363
Because she always listened to music
before she go on stage,

2022
01:51:46,450 --> 01:51:48,157
or whatever
she getting ready to do.

2023
01:51:48,243 --> 01:51:50,485
She would listen
to some Fred Hammond.

2024
01:51:51,747 --> 01:51:53,739
So I ran the water.

2025
01:51:53,832 --> 01:51:55,448
She got in the tub.

2026
01:51:56,793 --> 01:51:59,035
And she wanted
these cupcakes.

2027
01:51:59,129 --> 01:52:02,543
She said, "Mary, I just want
a sprinkle cupcake, I swear.

2028
01:52:02,633 --> 01:52:05,250
Get two,
but I won't eat but one."

2029
01:52:05,344 --> 01:52:08,712
And I left her smiling and
brushing her hair in the tub.

2030
01:52:12,351 --> 01:52:14,718
I...

2031
01:52:14,811 --> 01:52:17,975
I wasn't gone but 30 minutes.

2032
01:52:28,283 --> 01:52:29,899
♪ I ♪

2033
01:52:29,993 --> 01:52:31,905
I'm always running
from this giant.

2034
01:52:31,995 --> 01:52:34,282
I'm always running
from this big man.

2035
01:52:35,415 --> 01:52:36,656
My mother always says:

2036
01:52:36,750 --> 01:52:38,550
"Well, you know, that's nothing
but the devil.

2037
01:52:38,627 --> 01:52:41,665
He's just tryin' to get you.
He just wants your soul."

2038
01:52:42,839 --> 01:52:44,705
But he never gets me.

2039
01:52:48,387 --> 01:52:51,801
When I got back,
there were no lights on.

2040
01:52:51,890 --> 01:52:53,973
I said, "What the hell?"

2041
01:52:55,310 --> 01:53:00,977
And I proceeded to step...
in the bedroom.

2042
01:53:09,533 --> 01:53:11,490
Water came to my ankle.

2043
01:53:11,576 --> 01:53:13,488
I said, "What the hell?"

2044
01:53:17,416 --> 01:53:19,703
I saw my baby
floating in there,

2045
01:53:19,793 --> 01:53:22,001
just face down
in the water.

2046
01:53:32,723 --> 01:53:34,009
Breaking News.

2047
01:53:34,099 --> 01:53:35,965
Whitney Houston is dead.

2048
01:53:36,059 --> 01:53:37,891
The death of singing star
Whitney Houston.

2049
01:53:37,978 --> 01:53:39,435
Cause of death is drowning.

2050
01:53:39,521 --> 01:53:41,183
Heaven just got
another beautiful voice

2051
01:53:41,273 --> 01:53:42,389
added to the choir.

2052
01:53:42,482 --> 01:53:44,064
Due to cocaine use.

2053
01:53:44,151 --> 01:53:46,017
One of the true legends.

2054
01:53:46,111 --> 01:53:48,603
I would hope that all the negative press

2055
01:53:48,697 --> 01:53:51,110
would take a pause
and remember this great talent.

2056
01:54:03,128 --> 01:54:05,871
♪ When I think of home ♪

2057
01:54:07,424 --> 01:54:09,586
♪ I think of a place ♪

2058
01:54:11,887 --> 01:54:16,507
♪ Where there's
love overflowing ♪

2059
01:54:19,102 --> 01:54:21,685
♪ I wish I was home ♪

2060
01:54:22,981 --> 01:54:25,098
♪ I wish I was back there ♪

2061
01:54:26,777 --> 01:54:30,396
♪ With the things ♪

2062
01:54:30,489 --> 01:54:33,778
♪ I've been knowing ♪

2063
01:54:33,867 --> 01:54:36,655
♪ I know
you're listening, God ♪

2064
01:54:36,745 --> 01:54:41,365
♪ So won't you please try
not to make it hard to know ♪

2065
01:54:41,458 --> 01:54:44,371
♪ I shouldn't
believe everything ♪

2066
01:54:44,461 --> 01:54:46,669
♪ Everything that I see ♪

2067
01:54:48,882 --> 01:54:53,593
♪ A world full of love ♪

2068
01:54:53,678 --> 01:54:56,170
♪ Like yours, like ♪

2069
01:54:56,264 --> 01:55:01,510
♪ Like mine ♪

2070
01:55:01,603 --> 01:55:08,567
♪ Like home ♪

2071
01:55:08,652 --> 01:55:13,898
♪ Home ♪

2072
01:55:21,164 --> 01:55:24,373
You won't forget that name!
Whitney Houston!

2073
01:55:48,024 --> 01:55:52,018
♪ Share my life ♪

2074
01:55:52,112 --> 01:55:58,074
♪ Take me for what I am ♪

2075
01:55:58,160 --> 01:56:04,248
♪ 'Cause I'll never change
all my colors for you ♪

2076
01:56:07,127 --> 01:56:11,337
♪ I said
take my love ♪

2077
01:56:11,423 --> 01:56:16,214
♪ I'll never ask
for too much ♪

2078
01:56:16,303 --> 01:56:19,387
♪ Just all that you are ♪

2079
01:56:20,557 --> 01:56:24,426
♪ And everything
that you do ♪

2080
01:56:24,519 --> 01:56:26,852
♪ You, you ♪

2081
01:56:26,938 --> 01:56:31,808
♪ I don't really need to look
very much further ♪

2082
01:56:31,902 --> 01:56:36,522
♪ I don't wanna have to go
where you don't follow ♪

2083
01:56:36,615 --> 01:56:40,825
♪ I won't hold it back again
this passion inside ♪

2084
01:56:40,911 --> 01:56:47,875
♪ I can't run from myself
there's nowhere to hide ♪

2085
01:56:48,752 --> 01:56:53,872
♪ Don't make me close
one more door ♪

2086
01:56:53,965 --> 01:56:58,175
♪ I don't wanna hurt
anymore ♪

2087
01:56:58,261 --> 01:57:02,972
♪ Stay in my arms
if you dare ♪

2088
01:57:03,058 --> 01:57:07,928
♪ Or must I imagine
you there? ♪

2089
01:57:08,021 --> 01:57:13,312
♪ Don't walk away from me ♪

2090
01:57:13,401 --> 01:57:18,146
♪ I have nothing
nothing, nothing ♪

2091
01:57:18,240 --> 01:57:24,703
♪ If I don't have you ♪

2092
01:57:26,206 --> 01:57:29,745
♪ You see through ♪

2093
01:57:29,834 --> 01:57:33,953
♪ Right to the heart
of me ♪

2094
01:57:35,173 --> 01:57:38,541
♪ You break down my walls ♪

2095
01:57:38,635 --> 01:57:41,878
♪ With the strength
of your love ♪

2096
01:57:41,972 --> 01:57:44,840
♪ Mm, oh ♪

2097
01:57:44,933 --> 01:57:48,097
♪ I never knew ♪

2098
01:57:48,186 --> 01:57:53,352
♪ Love like I've known it
with you ♪

2099
01:57:53,441 --> 01:57:57,276
♪ Will a memory survive ♪

2100
01:57:57,362 --> 01:58:02,107
♪ One I can hold on to? ♪

2101
01:58:03,910 --> 01:58:08,371
♪ I don't really need to look
very much further ♪

2102
01:58:08,456 --> 01:58:12,951
♪ I don't wanna have to go
where you don't follow ♪

2103
01:58:13,044 --> 01:58:17,334
♪ I won't hold it back again
this passion inside ♪

2104
01:58:17,424 --> 01:58:19,837
♪ I can't run from myself ♪

2105
01:58:19,926 --> 01:58:23,886
♪ There's nowhere to hide ♪

2106
01:58:23,972 --> 01:58:29,388
♪ Your love
I'll remember forever ♪

2107
01:58:29,477 --> 01:58:34,768
♪ Don't make me close
one more door ♪

2108
01:58:34,858 --> 01:58:39,023
♪ I don't wanna hurt
anymore ♪

2109
01:58:39,112 --> 01:58:43,527
♪ Stay in my arms
if you dare ♪

2110
01:58:43,617 --> 01:58:48,487
♪ Or must I imagine
you there? ♪

2111
01:58:48,580 --> 01:58:53,621
♪ Don't walk away from me ♪

2112
01:58:53,710 --> 01:59:00,298
♪ I have nothing
nothing, nothing ♪

2113
01:59:00,383 --> 01:59:07,347
♪ Don't make me close
one more door ♪

2114
01:59:07,432 --> 01:59:11,847
♪ I don't wanna hurt
anymore ♪

2115
01:59:11,936 --> 01:59:16,647
♪ Stay in my arms
if you dare ♪

2116
01:59:16,733 --> 01:59:21,398
♪ Or must I imagine
you there? ♪

2117
01:59:21,488 --> 01:59:25,107
♪ Don't walk away from me ♪

2118
01:59:25,200 --> 01:59:26,316
♪ No ♪

2119
01:59:26,409 --> 01:59:30,119
♪ Don't walk away from me ♪

2120
01:59:30,205 --> 01:59:34,324
♪ Don't you dare
walk away from me ♪

2121
01:59:36,044 --> 01:59:42,041
♪ I have nothing
nothing, nothing ♪

2122
01:59:42,133 --> 01:59:46,594
♪ If I don't have you ♪

2123
01:59:47,389 --> 01:59:51,053
♪ You ♪

2124
01:59:51,142 --> 01:59:55,477
♪ If I don't have you ♪

2125
01:59:56,523 --> 02:00:00,517
♪ Oh, you ♪