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SIRENS BLARE | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
People say Whitney died from an overdose of drugs. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:58 | |
Whitney Houston was drugged out. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
I know Whitney Houston actually died from a broken heart. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:07 | |
She died from a broken heart. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
THEY CHEER | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
Oh, it's like that, huh? | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
Hallelujah. Thank you. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
I'm tired! Let's do this show. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
Well, sir, I hear the people. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
-Now, that's the crowd out there. -That's the crowd. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
I want you to go out there and do what I tell you. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
It's my prerogative. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
# It's my prerogative | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
# It's my prerogative. # | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
# She can do what she wants to do. # | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
-Let's do it! -Yes! -Yes! | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
# I hope life treats you kind | 0:02:08 | 0:02:16 | |
# And I hope you have all you dreamed of | 0:02:16 | 0:02:23 | |
# And I wish you joy and happiness | 0:02:23 | 0:02:31 | |
# But above all this I wish you love | 0:02:31 | 0:02:37 | |
# Sweet love | 0:02:37 | 0:02:41 | |
# Love | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
# And I | 0:03:12 | 0:03:17 | |
# Will always love you | 0:03:17 | 0:03:22 | |
# I will always love you | 0:03:22 | 0:03:27 | |
# I will always love you | 0:03:27 | 0:03:35 | |
# I will always | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
# Always love you | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
# I will always love you | 0:03:42 | 0:03:50 | |
# I'll always love | 0:03:52 | 0:03:59 | |
# You. # | 0:04:02 | 0:04:26 | |
I'm sitting... I'm playing drums behind her, right? | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
And I'm sitting and I'm watching her. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:41 | |
And I'm watching the muscles in her back | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
and everything just expand like that, you know? | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
It was like a... She was like a doggone body-builder. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:51 | |
And that's how she sang every night, every song. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:55 | |
Whitney's voice, you know, unparalleled. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
I mean, she was ridiculous. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
It also cost her near the end of the tours. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
I mean, you could see the toll it took on her voice | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
to have to do those performances night after night. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
She was totally brilliant. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
Totally brilliant but... | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
Everything came so naturally to her. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:21 | |
Whitney was created by God and Whitney's gift came from him. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:25 | |
So the only one who could mess it up was her. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:30 | |
There was a timbre, a sound to her voice that was just angelic. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:36 | |
There were many, many times when Whitney's voice was just gone. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:44 | |
By the time... You know, we would lower the key | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
to songs and then lower it again and then maybe lower it again. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
But even then, you know, when it became time for her | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
to hit those notes, she wasn't there because she wasn't | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
taking care of herself. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
Whitney's voice broke barriers. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:02 | |
We did not have Beyonces. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
And any African American female artist | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
that can now be at the top of the pop chart, | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
that absolutely was not going to happen before Whitney Houston. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:17 | |
It had not happened before Whitney Houston. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
So she changed history for us | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
and she paid a price for it. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
People may not know it but Whitney was from the 'hood. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
They wanted to present her as the princess. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
That's what white America was presented. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
They weren't presented with Newark, New Jersey, Whitney. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
I grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and in East Orange, New Jersey. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:04 | |
I do know what it is to be black. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:15 | |
I know what it's like to see my black community and people not being | 0:07:15 | 0:07:20 | |
given the opportunity as others are given the opportunity. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
GOSPEL MUSIC PLAYS | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
Whitney was very in touch with her spiritual... | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
You know, with her thoughts about being spiritual | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
and knowing where it came from - from my mother. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
You know, from growing up and going to church, | 0:07:49 | 0:07:51 | |
you know, from reading the Bible, from singing gospel songs, | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
from being affiliated with people who were in the church. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
You know, things of that nature. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
# Celebration | 0:08:00 | 0:08:04 | |
# Jubilation | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
# Celebration | 0:08:07 | 0:08:11 | |
# Jubilation | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
# When the Lord comes back | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
# We'll be ready when he comes | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
# When the Lord comes back | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
# We're gonna have a great celebration. # | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
The memories of singing in church are ones | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
that I cherish the most. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
# If you just | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
-# Have a little talk -A little talk | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
# With Jesus... # | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
THEY CONTINUE SINGING | 0:08:42 | 0:08:46 | |
It wasn't worldly, it wasn't... | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
It was fresh, it wasn't stale. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
Singing gospel was an energy, a passion. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:05 | |
THEY CONTINUE SINGING | 0:09:05 | 0:09:10 | |
I taught Whitney. Nobody else taught her. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
I taught her what she knew. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:25 | |
She sang from her heart. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
She knew how. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
She learnt how. She learnt to craft well | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
and that's very important. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
If you're going to sing, you have to know how to sing | 0:09:33 | 0:09:37 | |
and most people sing... | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
I guess they learn their way, but she learned the right way | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
because that's what I taught her. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
She was spoiled. She was the baby. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
She was John's baby. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
Nobody messed with her anyway, nobody did. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
They didn't have the heart to... | 0:09:57 | 0:09:59 | |
They didn't have the heart to mess with Nippy. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
I think she was closer to her dad than her mother. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
She felt that love more from her dad. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
It could be, you know, she was the only girl... | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
Cissy's no joke. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:15 | |
Cissy is straight, stern. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
She didn't doubt that her mother loved her, but whether she could | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
feel it the way she did with, like, her dad, I'm not sure. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:26 | |
Her mother made her decisions. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
Her mother, I feel, was instrumental in creating the enormous career. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:38 | |
She guided her, she chose her people that were around her, she... | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
She influenced Whitney in her voice and her training, and her choices. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:50 | |
Cissy was everything. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
We were the first black family up here. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
House has been painted, because it was white. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
No, they put whatsitsname on it. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:04 | |
The tower, the little panelling, or whatever. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
It's amazing, it's amazing. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:11 | |
So many memories. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
I used to sneak into the house and climb into the window | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
of Whitney's bedroom. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:17 | |
She opened the window for me. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
"Daddy's going to whoop your ass!" | 0:11:20 | 0:11:22 | |
My God. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:23 | |
We were always, like I say, being together most of the time, | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
and her following behind me, I taught her to drive, you know. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
We played together, you know, and everything that you do together | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
as you're growing up, and then, when you get into drugs, | 0:11:39 | 0:11:41 | |
you do that together, too. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:42 | |
You know, like I say, at ten years old, I tried drugs. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
I mean, you know, I was ten years old. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
I mean, I saw people that I looked up to using drugs, | 0:11:49 | 0:11:53 | |
and I saw them doing their best, being at their best. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:56 | |
When Whitney and I met, we were in our teens, 18, 19. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
They did drugs! You know, it was the thing you do, | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
you go out, you party, you drink, you do a little drugs, | 0:12:05 | 0:12:08 | |
everybody did it, and her brothers gave it to her. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
It was just something you do to have fun. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
I mean, you know, my mother had a good, pretty good rein on me, | 0:12:17 | 0:12:22 | |
you know what I'm saying? Erm... | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
When you're raised in church, and in the background of | 0:12:24 | 0:12:28 | |
God-fearing religions, you kind of - and it's instilled in you - | 0:12:28 | 0:12:34 | |
there is a certain boundary that you don't cross. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:39 | |
You know what I'm saying? Like, I could have got into | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
a lot more trouble than I got into if I hadn't thought about, | 0:12:41 | 0:12:45 | |
"My mother's going to kill me," | 0:12:45 | 0:12:46 | |
or, "My father and my mother are going to be so disappointed," | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
or, you know, "I know God is watching me". | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
I've been working with Whitney for 18 years now, and I guess you | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
can say that I've known her for 18 years, too. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
I have a friendship - that's our foundation. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
I knew her brothers, went to school with them, | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
but never knew they had a sister. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
And she was pretty low-key, smart. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
She knows how to play, she's funny. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
She's funny. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:19 | |
I didn't know... She was like this, she would come over, and my mom | 0:13:19 | 0:13:25 | |
was real cool with it, and Whitney would hang out. And she would be | 0:13:25 | 0:13:28 | |
on the cover of Seventeen, and wouldn't even tell anybody. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
Isn't that funny? My mother would have to go to the grocery store, | 0:13:31 | 0:13:34 | |
come back, and say, "Robyn, you know so-and-so?" | 0:13:34 | 0:13:36 | |
I would know that maybe she had a photoshoot some time ago, | 0:13:36 | 0:13:40 | |
but Whitney wouldn't tell me anything. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
Isn't that strange? | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
Young, and you would think she would be like, "Check me out!" | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
Mm-mm. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:49 | |
None of that. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:51 | |
I wonder if she was scared to, like, see it. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
I've never asked her that. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
But she would do strange things like that, she's... | 0:13:55 | 0:14:00 | |
I would say that Whitney is sort of strange. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
-So are you going to...? -Last one. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
-And then... -You're looking quite spinny today. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
-VOICEOVER: -When I met them, I think Whitney had just moved into her very | 0:14:10 | 0:14:15 | |
first apartment, and her and Robyn were sharing an apartment. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
Robyn was older than Whitney, and I think people were picking on Whitney | 0:14:19 | 0:14:23 | |
at school, and Robyn would, you know, step in to keep people | 0:14:23 | 0:14:27 | |
from fighting her, and protect her from those people. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
So they, I guess, created a bond then, and then they just kept it. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:35 | |
And then Robyn became instrumental in helping her make those decisions, | 0:14:35 | 0:14:41 | |
with her career, and stuff like that. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
I first met Whitney when I started to work at Arista Records. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
She was... She was a sweet kid at the time. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:02 | |
She was very insecure, she was not that polished. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
I remember at a dinner in Washington DC, she made a joke about the amount | 0:15:06 | 0:15:14 | |
of silverware, the amount of service placing at dinner, | 0:15:14 | 0:15:18 | |
and how do you use it? And I remember telling her this trick, | 0:15:18 | 0:15:21 | |
the way I learned the first time - | 0:15:21 | 0:15:23 | |
you watch everybody else and just start from the outside. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
She was very naive, she was very insecure. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
She was always very concerned if people were going to like her, | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
if people were going to accept her. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:32 | |
And it's interesting, because it was never really about the talent. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:36 | |
It was about how she looked, and how she presented herself. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:40 | |
When Merv returns, Arista Records president Clive Davis | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
introduces a great new singing talent. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
This girl is 19 years old, yeah, and rarely do you find... | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
There was Lena Horne, there was Dionne Warwick, who is | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
-certainly currently... -She's Dionne Warwick's cousin, isn't she? | 0:15:52 | 0:15:56 | |
By coincidence, I have never even talked to Dionne about this. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
I mean this sincerely. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:01 | |
Clive was a master at pop music. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
He had a vision for a pop artist. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
He tried to do it with Dionne and Aretha, | 0:16:06 | 0:16:10 | |
but they were far too established in their career as to who they were. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:14 | |
And along comes Whitney, who was so mouldable, | 0:16:14 | 0:16:19 | |
and she was the perfect vehicle for his foolproof vision. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
-She's got it. -She got it. Wait till you hear. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
# It's real, it's real to me | 0:16:26 | 0:16:31 | |
# And I've learned that we must look inside | 0:16:31 | 0:16:36 | |
# To find | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
# Yeah, we gotta find | 0:16:42 | 0:16:46 | |
# A world full of love | 0:16:46 | 0:16:51 | |
# Like yours, like | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
# Like mine, | 0:16:53 | 0:16:59 | |
# Like home | 0:16:59 | 0:17:06 | |
# Home. # | 0:17:06 | 0:17:11 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
The company had this image in mind that they were going to create | 0:17:14 | 0:17:18 | |
a pop icon, an artist that was accepted by the masses, | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
translating to white America. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
How did you market Whitney for a white audience? | 0:17:25 | 0:17:28 | |
Put the past behind them, | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
and don't focus on it. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
And that's what we did. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
You know, it sounds trite and small and insignificant, but it's not. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:43 | |
As you have said, this is a very racial country, and racism, | 0:17:43 | 0:17:48 | |
especially on the part of a black person that's an artist | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
or whatever they may be, | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
normally, folks are looking for something in the background. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:57 | |
The news about Whitney Houston is crackling through the music world, | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
and the news is good. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:07 | |
"She is a talent with tremendous potential" - The New York Times. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
"Whitney has the pedigree and the style to be a major vocalist, | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
"there is no doubt about it. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:14 | |
"Whitney Houston is going to be a star." | 0:18:14 | 0:18:16 | |
She was who she was. She came from she came from. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
If you're from the 'hood, you're from the 'hood. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
There are certain things you do, there are certain things you like, | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
you dance, you play, you... | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
It is part of the culture you have, | 0:18:28 | 0:18:31 | |
so we are going to take you out of that, present you to be another way | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
to a mass audience, and you're going to play the part. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
And Whitney played that part great, | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
because that was part of who she was. She WAS classy. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
Her mother was Cissy Houston, her cousin was Dionne Warwick. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
But at the heart of it, she was still Nippy. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
My next guest is a rather spectacular 21-year-old singer, | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
whose recent album - debut album, as a matter of fact - | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
has received great reviews from the critics. She is the daughter of | 0:18:53 | 0:18:57 | |
singer Cissy Houston, and cousin of Dionne Warwick. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
Whitney Houston, cousin of Dionne Warwick | 0:19:00 | 0:19:02 | |
and daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston... | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
-Your aunt is... -My cousin is Dionne Warwick. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:07 | |
-And your aunt is Thelma... -No, no, no, we're no relation at all. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
Oh! And who was your father, Duke Ellington? | 0:19:10 | 0:19:12 | |
Her music was deliberately pop. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
Anything that was too black sounding was sent back to the studio, | 0:19:21 | 0:19:26 | |
and to say "black sounding", in case you have a problem with that, | 0:19:26 | 0:19:30 | |
it's to say that it's too George Clinton, it's too Funkadelic, | 0:19:30 | 0:19:35 | |
it's just too R&B. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:38 | |
We want Joni Mitchell, we want Mariah Carey, | 0:19:38 | 0:19:43 | |
we want Barbra Streisand, we want to achieve that sound | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
more so than we want to achieve the other R&B sounds. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:50 | |
We don't want a female James Brown. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
Hold cameras. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:54 | |
OK, congratulations, first of all, | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
on having the number one song in America. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
-Isn't that something? Thank you! -How does that feel? -It feels great. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
It feels really, really great, I must tell you. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
I should explain to you, also, in the final product, | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
I'm not going to exist, it will be just you. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:11 | |
-Oh! -Yeah, too bad. -Oh, poor thing! | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
-So, you need to make your answers fairly complete and... -Oh... | 0:20:14 | 0:20:19 | |
Ideally about a minute long, but if you go longer, that's fine, | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
-but just not really short, OK? -Oh, OK. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
Some of the criticisms of the album were that your voice was so good, | 0:20:25 | 0:20:30 | |
it shouldn't be wasted on pop cliches and things like that. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:36 | |
Do you feel that way at all, or will that influence your next album? | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
I doubt it. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
I doubt it. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:42 | |
I did not go into the studio wanting to make a pop album. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:46 | |
I went into the studio wanting to make good music. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
# I found the greatest love of all | 0:20:54 | 0:21:01 | |
# Inside of me | 0:21:01 | 0:21:05 | |
# The greatest love of all | 0:21:05 | 0:21:12 | |
# Is easy to achieve | 0:21:12 | 0:21:19 | |
# Learning to love yourself | 0:21:19 | 0:21:25 | |
# It is the greatest love of all | 0:21:25 | 0:21:31 | |
# And if, by chance, that special place | 0:21:31 | 0:21:38 | |
# That you've been dreaming of | 0:21:38 | 0:21:46 | |
# Leads you to a lonely place | 0:21:46 | 0:21:51 | |
# Find your strength in love. # | 0:21:51 | 0:22:05 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
Clive Davis was right. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
In January of 1986, she collected five American Music Awards, | 0:22:16 | 0:22:20 | |
and in February, she took top female vocalist honours at the Grammys. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:24 | |
Whitney Houston! | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
Greatest Love Of All, Whitney Houston. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston! | 0:22:30 | 0:22:32 | |
Whitney Houston! | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
Whitney Houston! | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:22:47 | 0:22:49 | |
All right. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
They told me... | 0:23:20 | 0:23:22 | |
They told me to take as much time as I wanted. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
And they're asking for it now! | 0:23:25 | 0:23:27 | |
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING | 0:23:27 | 0:23:28 | |
Gosh. What can I say? | 0:23:28 | 0:23:32 | |
I'd like to thank my mom and dad, for their love and support. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:36 | |
I wouldn't have made it without you. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
My brothers, Michael and Gary. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
And Robyn. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
Whitney and Robyn, they fought those battles together, | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
from the beginning to a bona fide superstar. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
They were close, they were tight. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
Robyn was my go-to person, I love Robyn. | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
Whitney was at the top of the charts, | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
she had four or five, six, seven consecutive number one records. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
These were pop records, they were massive. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
She was everywhere. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:14 | |
And to the black ear, these records didn't have a natural feel. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:20 | |
These records were not natural R&B records. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
So for the black audience, the perspective was in the community, | 0:24:25 | 0:24:29 | |
that Whitney had sold out. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
Whitney had been nominated for either Record Of The Year | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
or Female Vocalist Of The Year. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
When her picture came across the screen, there was this massive boo. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
BOOING | 0:24:45 | 0:24:46 | |
And the winner is... | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
It's not a good feeling. It is horrible, and it's kind of funny. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
You go, "Are they booing me?" | 0:24:58 | 0:25:00 | |
You have to sit there and be, like, cordial, and be smiling, | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
and be like, "Everything's OK," and you're feeling, like, | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
"Oh, my God, they're not booing me, are they?" | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
Sometimes, it gets down to - you're not black enough for them. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:13 | |
You know, or you're not R&B enough. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
You're very pop, the white audience have taken you away from them. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
That moment of being booed on Soul Train was not only tough | 0:25:21 | 0:25:26 | |
for Whitney, it was devastating. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
It was devastating. It was emotionally devastating. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
She, I don't think, ever recovered from it. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
It is one of those boxes that was checked, | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
that when ultimately she perished, | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
it was because of those boxes, and that was a big one. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:45 | |
Whitney insisted they crossed her back over to black music. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:50 | |
I'm Your Baby Tonight was not a record that | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
Clive Davis wanted to make, but she says, | 0:25:53 | 0:25:55 | |
"I'm not making another record like you want, I'm going to do me now." | 0:25:55 | 0:25:59 | |
Her favourite saying was, "Can I be me?" | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
In fact, she would say it so much, that we had it sampled. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
"C-c-c-c-can I be me?" | 0:26:14 | 0:26:16 | |
And that was the conundrum, like, "Damn it, I have made all this | 0:26:17 | 0:26:21 | |
"money, and made all these people happy, and I still can't be me." | 0:26:21 | 0:26:26 | |
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you so much! | 0:26:26 | 0:26:30 | |
I love you, Mommy and Daddy, and my brothers, God bless you... | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
When you create somebody, when you create something, at some point, | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
that something realises, "This isn't me. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:42 | |
"I have been created and I have been moulded into this," | 0:26:42 | 0:26:45 | |
and they break out of it. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:46 | |
She came from such a controlling family situation. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:51 | |
And she allowed that to happen, of course, | 0:26:51 | 0:26:56 | |
because maybe of her upbringing, I don't know why, but... | 0:26:56 | 0:27:00 | |
..after a certain point, I think that anybody, and it was clear | 0:27:01 | 0:27:05 | |
in her case, that you can't take it much longer, | 0:27:05 | 0:27:09 | |
and you break out, you fall apart, you crumble. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
You're like, "I can't take the pressure any more." | 0:27:12 | 0:27:15 | |
-And who do you think was controlling her, mainly? -Oh, her mother. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
Her mother, clearly. I think that, you know, | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
Whitney had the career that her mother always wanted. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
Her records never achieved any real major success, | 0:27:27 | 0:27:30 | |
and here comes her daughter, and if you read in her book, | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
she referenced in her book, Whitney stole all of her style. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:35 | |
# I wanna say, happy birthday... | 0:27:38 | 0:27:46 | |
# ..to my daddy | 0:27:48 | 0:27:50 | |
# I love you, so happy birthday... | 0:27:53 | 0:27:57 | |
# Happy birthday... | 0:27:59 | 0:28:01 | |
# ..to you. # | 0:28:03 | 0:28:08 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
You're surprised, aren't you? | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
I just want to thank you for your love... | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
..and for being the best daddy any girl could ever have. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
There was a deep, very complicated relationship with her father. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:30 | |
One of the things about being rich is that your family is either | 0:28:32 | 0:28:37 | |
dependent on you in one way or another, financially, | 0:28:37 | 0:28:40 | |
or they actually work for you. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:42 | |
And in this case, her father and mother worked for her, | 0:28:42 | 0:28:45 | |
and so did her brothers, and her sister-in-law. And with Whitney, | 0:28:45 | 0:28:48 | |
we saw just the weirdness of that relationship with her dad. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:52 | |
Because he was constantly trying to do what was right for her, | 0:28:52 | 0:28:56 | |
you thought, but then there were times, you'd go, | 0:28:56 | 0:28:58 | |
"I don't know if you are doing what is right for her, | 0:28:58 | 0:29:00 | |
"as much as what is right for the career, but how about her?" | 0:29:00 | 0:29:05 | |
# I love you so much, yes, I do. | 0:29:05 | 0:29:07 | |
# Couldn't make it without you. | 0:29:08 | 0:29:12 | |
# Hallelujah, I love you, Daddy. # | 0:29:12 | 0:29:16 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:29:16 | 0:29:18 | |
Thank you. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:20 | |
After the second album, and this phenomenal success, | 0:29:22 | 0:29:29 | |
folks didn't realise, they really didn't know a whole lot about her, | 0:29:29 | 0:29:33 | |
intimately. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
Who she was hanging out with, who she was going out with, | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
and, you know, who she was partying with. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:41 | |
Is there somebody that you're seeing? | 0:29:41 | 0:29:43 | |
Yeah, I'm seeing someone, absolutely, sure. | 0:29:43 | 0:29:47 | |
Sure. I'm seeing you right now, with my own two eyes. | 0:29:47 | 0:29:50 | |
-Has he actually what? -Rung you up, since you've been over here? | 0:29:57 | 0:30:00 | |
MOCKING ENGLISH ACCENT: Rung me up! | 0:30:00 | 0:30:02 | |
Has he actually rung me up? | 0:30:04 | 0:30:07 | |
Yes, he has actually rung me. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:10 | |
He has rung me and I've rung him. | 0:30:12 | 0:30:15 | |
I said I want to fuck her. | 0:30:15 | 0:30:17 | |
He says you are great. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:23 | |
You are the best of the best... | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
-Thank you. -..madame. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:39 | |
A lot of what I have learned, a lot of what I know... | 0:30:42 | 0:30:45 | |
..kind of takes the fun out of it. | 0:30:47 | 0:30:48 | |
I enjoy doing what I do. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:52 | |
I enjoy singing, I enjoy performing for people. | 0:30:52 | 0:30:55 | |
You know, but there's a lot of it, about the business, | 0:30:56 | 0:31:00 | |
and about what I do, that's not fun, that you're subjected to, | 0:31:00 | 0:31:06 | |
and it's often not very fair. | 0:31:06 | 0:31:09 | |
Then it started again, real intense in terms of questions. | 0:31:12 | 0:31:17 | |
And, um, you know, I'd have people call from radio stations | 0:31:17 | 0:31:22 | |
and be in a conversation with programme directors, | 0:31:22 | 0:31:25 | |
and they'd say, "Hey, man, is Whitney gay?" | 0:31:25 | 0:31:29 | |
I'd say, "Huh? Hell, no. What made you ask?" | 0:31:31 | 0:31:35 | |
"Well, I've heard..." You know. And that was all over the place. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:39 | |
Rumours had already started about her sexuality. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
When we travelled, Robyn was with us. Depending on who you were, | 0:31:45 | 0:31:49 | |
you had to get through Robyn to get to Whitney. | 0:31:49 | 0:31:51 | |
You have to understand the make-up of these guys who did promotion. | 0:31:53 | 0:31:58 | |
700 music programme directors, that, uh, 99.9% heterosexual, | 0:31:58 | 0:32:06 | |
99.9999999 homophobic. | 0:32:06 | 0:32:10 | |
And the woman goes, "Oh, this woman is not a heterosexual." | 0:32:14 | 0:32:18 | |
They had a field day with that. | 0:32:19 | 0:32:21 | |
And heterosexual men always have a field day with that, anyway, | 0:32:21 | 0:32:24 | |
because the first thing they say is that, you know, | 0:32:24 | 0:32:27 | |
"Oh, she doesn't need me." | 0:32:27 | 0:32:29 | |
HE LAUGHS CYNICALLY | 0:32:29 | 0:32:31 | |
This wasn't her world. | 0:32:31 | 0:32:32 | |
I mean, I brought her into this madness, and she goes, "What? | 0:32:32 | 0:32:35 | |
"Why am I the target? What did I do?" | 0:32:35 | 0:32:38 | |
I said, "You're my friend. What else do you want? | 0:32:38 | 0:32:41 | |
"You play basketball. They think you're a man! I don't know!" | 0:32:41 | 0:32:44 | |
She's a damn good basketball player. | 0:32:45 | 0:32:47 | |
She can beat any guy there is. I love it! | 0:32:47 | 0:32:49 | |
Because she plays basketball, people think she's a lesbian. | 0:32:49 | 0:32:52 | |
She's a very tall, very broad woman. She's been my friend for years. | 0:32:52 | 0:32:57 | |
I don't know, we just... stuck it out. | 0:32:57 | 0:33:00 | |
This was her friend, that she'd had around her for, you know, | 0:33:03 | 0:33:06 | |
since the beginning of her career, | 0:33:06 | 0:33:08 | |
and all of a sudden I think she had people telling her what to do. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:12 | |
Her mother was very much against it, Clive was very much against it. | 0:33:12 | 0:33:15 | |
They said, "Was it cool to have a lesbian affair?" | 0:33:15 | 0:33:19 | |
You know, today - I always think, if she were an artist today, | 0:33:19 | 0:33:21 | |
she'd be fine, everything would be lovely. | 0:33:21 | 0:33:24 | |
She'd probably still be here. But back then, | 0:33:24 | 0:33:26 | |
it was this tremendous emphasis on being the perfect girl. | 0:33:26 | 0:33:30 | |
It became quite a conflict. And it's interesting, | 0:33:30 | 0:33:32 | |
because you have drugs, you have this family riddled with drugs, | 0:33:32 | 0:33:35 | |
and yet the homosexuality is what you're going to focus on, | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
when, you know, you would have had a better time probably trying to | 0:33:38 | 0:33:42 | |
handle those drugs than you would have with that. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:44 | |
But again, that religion, that fierce religion that I think | 0:33:44 | 0:33:48 | |
Cissy had, that was very important to her, | 0:33:48 | 0:33:50 | |
because it's people talking, it's the church talking. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:53 | |
She's an elder in the church, she's a trustee in the church, | 0:33:53 | 0:33:56 | |
and your daughter's a homosexual. | 0:33:56 | 0:33:57 | |
And again, female homosexuality in the black community is | 0:33:57 | 0:34:00 | |
absolutely never spoken about. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:02 | |
I don't hear that at all. You never hear that. | 0:34:02 | 0:34:04 | |
-Black men, yes. Black women, no. -Even now? -Even now. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:08 | |
I've not got five minutes to eat! | 0:34:11 | 0:34:14 | |
What?! | 0:34:14 | 0:34:15 | |
They hate it. Hey, listen, I'm going onto a... | 0:34:16 | 0:34:21 | |
Whitney didn't have a closeness and feel safe with many people. | 0:34:24 | 0:34:30 | |
Robyn provided a safe place for her, Robyn loved her, cared for her, | 0:34:30 | 0:34:36 | |
was a friend to her and didn't want to ever disappoint her. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:42 | |
In that, Whitney found safety and solace. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:48 | |
I don't think that she was gay. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:50 | |
I think she was bisexual. If you loved her and she loved you, | 0:34:50 | 0:34:54 | |
it's possible for her to get into a physical relationship, | 0:34:54 | 0:34:58 | |
because Whitney loved to be held and she loved to be embraced, | 0:34:58 | 0:35:02 | |
and she wanted to feel protected. | 0:35:02 | 0:35:06 | |
Do you believe that Whitney and Robyn were in a gay relationship? | 0:35:06 | 0:35:10 | |
I don't really know. I thought, you know... | 0:35:10 | 0:35:13 | |
Would it have bothered you if your daughter Whitney was gay? | 0:35:13 | 0:35:19 | |
Absolutely. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:20 | |
-It would have bothered you? -Mm-hm. | 0:35:20 | 0:35:22 | |
-So, were you happy when Bobby Brown came into the picture? -No. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:27 | |
-You weren't happy about that? -Mm-mm. | 0:35:27 | 0:35:29 | |
# ..strange relationships | 0:35:29 | 0:35:31 | |
# That really gets me down | 0:35:31 | 0:35:34 | |
# I see nothing wrong... # | 0:35:34 | 0:35:36 | |
CHEERING | 0:35:36 | 0:35:38 | |
# Right! | 0:35:38 | 0:35:39 | |
# Everybody's talking now | 0:35:42 | 0:35:46 | |
# I don't need... # | 0:35:48 | 0:35:49 | |
And as you may be aware, the Soul Train Awards, where she was | 0:35:49 | 0:35:54 | |
booed, was that not the night she met Bobby Brown, | 0:35:54 | 0:35:57 | |
at the Soul Train Awards? | 0:35:57 | 0:35:59 | |
So you're talking about a total 360 image reversal. | 0:35:59 | 0:36:03 | |
This beautiful pop starlet | 0:36:03 | 0:36:05 | |
is now with the bad boy of R&B, Bobby Brown. | 0:36:05 | 0:36:08 | |
And the winner is... | 0:36:13 | 0:36:14 | |
..Bobby Brown! | 0:36:14 | 0:36:16 | |
I think I had won three awards that night, | 0:36:19 | 0:36:22 | |
and all of a sudden someone's hitting me in the back of the head. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:26 | |
And I turned around, and it was Whitney Houston. | 0:36:26 | 0:36:30 | |
And they said I was crazy, huh? | 0:36:30 | 0:36:32 | |
She was like, "Oh, was I hitting you? I'm sorry." | 0:36:32 | 0:36:35 | |
And then she did it again. | 0:36:35 | 0:36:36 | |
She was trying to get my attention, because I was fly. | 0:36:36 | 0:36:39 | |
I knew it, she knew it. You know? | 0:36:39 | 0:36:41 | |
Thank you. I'm outta here, baby. | 0:36:41 | 0:36:43 | |
We found that we had a lot in common, | 0:36:43 | 0:36:45 | |
and we started hanging out more and more. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:48 | |
Bobby was street. Bobby was 'hood. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:53 | |
Bobby was... Bobby had... As they say, Bobby had swag. | 0:36:54 | 0:36:58 | |
Whitney didn't grow up in Long Island, she grew up in Newark. | 0:36:58 | 0:37:02 | |
Bobby grew up in Boston, came from a similar culture. | 0:37:03 | 0:37:07 | |
They just had a chemistry, for whatever reason, | 0:37:07 | 0:37:10 | |
that worked for them. | 0:37:10 | 0:37:11 | |
NO SOUND | 0:37:11 | 0:37:13 | |
I met Bobby Brown in 1988, I believe. | 0:37:28 | 0:37:33 | |
We had a birthday party at Whitney's new home. | 0:37:33 | 0:37:36 | |
On the gate were three guys, | 0:37:36 | 0:37:38 | |
one of whom was dressed in a floral turquoise short-trousers suit... | 0:37:38 | 0:37:46 | |
..black loafers and white socks scrunched up round his ankles. | 0:37:47 | 0:37:51 | |
And his hair was cut like this, at a diagonal. | 0:37:51 | 0:37:53 | |
Bobby, what brings you round these parts? | 0:37:53 | 0:37:56 | |
Whitney, Whitney, Whitney. | 0:37:56 | 0:37:58 | |
Um, she invited me. I'm having a great time. | 0:37:58 | 0:38:01 | |
I just want to say happy birthday, Whitney. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:03 | |
You're doing great. I wish I could be like you one day. | 0:38:03 | 0:38:07 | |
And as that evening went on... | 0:38:07 | 0:38:12 | |
..she actually danced with him. | 0:38:12 | 0:38:14 | |
Robyn didn't take it especially well. | 0:38:16 | 0:38:19 | |
I think it adversely impacted on her relationship with Whitney. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:22 | |
# Come home | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
# Come home... # | 0:38:31 | 0:38:34 | |
Mr Bobby Brown! | 0:38:34 | 0:38:35 | |
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! | 0:38:35 | 0:38:37 | |
# I-I-I-I-I-I-I I-I-I-I-I-I-I | 0:38:37 | 0:38:43 | |
HE SCATS | 0:38:43 | 0:38:45 | |
# Boom! | 0:39:12 | 0:39:13 | |
# Yeah, hoo HE CONTINUES TO SCAT | 0:39:23 | 0:39:26 | |
# Yeah, yeah, yeah! | 0:39:26 | 0:39:27 | |
# Oh, baby! | 0:39:28 | 0:39:31 | |
# Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo | 0:39:31 | 0:39:34 | |
# One more time | 0:39:34 | 0:39:37 | |
# A-one more time | 0:39:37 | 0:39:40 | |
# Whoa! | 0:39:40 | 0:39:41 | |
# Here we go! Mr Brown!... # | 0:39:43 | 0:39:47 | |
MUSIC STOPS The record is not over yet. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:49 | |
MUSIC RESTARTS # Oh, yeah! | 0:39:49 | 0:39:53 | |
# Bobby Brown! | 0:39:56 | 0:39:58 | |
# Oh, yeah! | 0:40:05 | 0:40:07 | |
# Oh, baby! | 0:40:09 | 0:40:10 | |
# Oh, baby! | 0:40:12 | 0:40:13 | |
# Yeah, yeah! Yeah! | 0:40:14 | 0:40:17 | |
# Yeah! Yeah! | 0:40:17 | 0:40:19 | |
# Yeah! Yeah! | 0:40:20 | 0:40:22 | |
# Oh, yeah! | 0:40:22 | 0:40:24 | |
# Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! | 0:40:24 | 0:40:28 | |
# Yeah! # | 0:40:28 | 0:40:30 | |
He loved her as herself. | 0:40:30 | 0:40:33 | |
She could come off that stage and not have to be the person that | 0:40:35 | 0:40:39 | |
everybody in the world expected her to be or who they thought she was. | 0:40:39 | 0:40:43 | |
He understood that part of her. He understood the pressures, | 0:40:44 | 0:40:49 | |
because he was Bobby Brown, you know? | 0:40:49 | 0:40:51 | |
He understood her pressures and he understood her pain. | 0:40:51 | 0:40:54 | |
What do I think that Bobby and Whitney gave each other? | 0:40:56 | 0:40:59 | |
Acceptance. Love. | 0:40:59 | 0:41:03 | |
You know, because, again, they absolutely... | 0:41:03 | 0:41:05 | |
she absolutely loved him. And they loved each other. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:10 | |
But there was ACCEPTANCE. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:11 | |
You know, for who they were. | 0:41:13 | 0:41:15 | |
And that feeling of when you don't feel like you have to be | 0:41:15 | 0:41:20 | |
anybody but yourself with somebody... | 0:41:20 | 0:41:23 | |
..they had that. | 0:41:24 | 0:41:26 | |
Where are you at this point of your life? | 0:41:26 | 0:41:28 | |
WHITNEY CHUCKLES | 0:41:28 | 0:41:30 | |
Um, married with a baby. Happy. | 0:41:30 | 0:41:35 | |
-Um, content. -Hm! -Yeah. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:38 | |
Yeah. You know, I've got a great career. I have no complaints. | 0:41:38 | 0:41:41 | |
I am blessed. | 0:41:41 | 0:41:43 | |
So, then, will you tell me about Bobby? | 0:41:43 | 0:41:45 | |
Bobby... | 0:41:47 | 0:41:50 | |
..was ready for the same things I was ready for. | 0:41:50 | 0:41:54 | |
Commitment. Loyalty. Security. Trust. A good woman, a good man. | 0:41:54 | 0:42:01 | |
They call him a womaniser. You know, that's pretty harsh, you know? | 0:42:01 | 0:42:06 | |
Um, I don't think that my husband womanised anybody, | 0:42:06 | 0:42:10 | |
because I know that if he wanted them, they definitely wanted him. | 0:42:10 | 0:42:16 | |
You know? I don't think, you know, it was about womanising. | 0:42:16 | 0:42:19 | |
I think boys will be boys, and they have their fun, and they play. | 0:42:19 | 0:42:22 | |
When they really become smart and they find a good woman, | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
they marry her. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:27 | |
And that's what he did! SHE GIGGLES | 0:42:27 | 0:42:29 | |
THEY SHOUT HAPPILY | 0:42:30 | 0:42:33 | |
I think I'm a slave. I'm a slave. I'm a horse. | 0:42:41 | 0:42:44 | |
I'm a horse. | 0:42:44 | 0:42:46 | |
She's the most loving mother, um... | 0:42:57 | 0:43:00 | |
..the craziest wife... | 0:43:02 | 0:43:04 | |
..for me... | 0:43:06 | 0:43:09 | |
..because I'm crazy myself, you know? | 0:43:09 | 0:43:11 | |
I'm... Everybody knows me, you know? | 0:43:11 | 0:43:14 | |
Knows OF me. | 0:43:14 | 0:43:16 | |
But in order to deal with a person like me, | 0:43:16 | 0:43:19 | |
she has to be the sweetest person in the world | 0:43:19 | 0:43:22 | |
and also the meanest person in the world at times, because... | 0:43:22 | 0:43:27 | |
..it's, like, I'm... | 0:43:27 | 0:43:28 | |
..I'm Bobby Brown, I'm the original bad boy, they say. | 0:43:30 | 0:43:34 | |
But I'm not as bad as everybody thinks I am, so... | 0:43:34 | 0:43:38 | |
My wife, to me, is just like... | 0:43:38 | 0:43:41 | |
She's just a joy to be around. | 0:43:41 | 0:43:43 | |
Mm. I told you, I'd never seen nothing like it... | 0:43:45 | 0:43:49 | |
..that bond. | 0:43:51 | 0:43:53 | |
People could say what they want to say, but I lived in the house. | 0:43:53 | 0:43:57 | |
You know what I'm saying? | 0:43:57 | 0:43:58 | |
For years. So... | 0:43:59 | 0:44:02 | |
And what were they like together? | 0:44:05 | 0:44:07 | |
Hm! They were funny. I tell you, they used to do skits from movies. | 0:44:07 | 0:44:12 | |
She'd be Tina Turner and he'd be Ike! | 0:44:14 | 0:44:18 | |
HE COUGHS VIOLENTLY | 0:44:18 | 0:44:20 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:44:20 | 0:44:22 | |
Oh, no way! | 0:44:23 | 0:44:25 | |
Hey, hey, hey. | 0:44:43 | 0:44:44 | |
-Da-da-da! -LAUGHTER | 0:44:44 | 0:44:46 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:44:53 | 0:44:55 | |
So now, I got the cutter. | 0:44:59 | 0:45:01 | |
That's what Tina DIDN'T do! | 0:45:05 | 0:45:07 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:45:07 | 0:45:10 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:45:25 | 0:45:27 | |
Lovely! | 0:45:50 | 0:45:51 | |
TV: GUNFIRE | 0:46:01 | 0:46:03 | |
# Why, oh, why? # | 0:46:14 | 0:46:17 | |
Yes! | 0:46:17 | 0:46:18 | |
QUIET CONVERSATION | 0:46:20 | 0:46:22 | |
SHOUTING | 0:46:41 | 0:46:44 | |
How long did you work as bodyguard for Whitney? | 0:46:55 | 0:46:59 | |
From April 1988 until October 1995. | 0:46:59 | 0:47:03 | |
She knows that I looked after her with my life. | 0:47:03 | 0:47:06 | |
Very few people commit like that. | 0:47:06 | 0:47:08 | |
They didn't interview me for the job, I interviewed them. | 0:47:09 | 0:47:12 | |
"Are these somebody I'm prepared to die for?" | 0:47:12 | 0:47:15 | |
She was. | 0:47:15 | 0:47:16 | |
That film encapsulated in two hours and ten minutes what had then been | 0:47:22 | 0:47:26 | |
six years of our life together, absent two elements - | 0:47:26 | 0:47:32 | |
I've never been shot at while with her and I've never made love to her. | 0:47:32 | 0:47:36 | |
You take those two out of the film, | 0:47:36 | 0:47:38 | |
it really becomes quite a boring two-and-a-half hours, yes? | 0:47:38 | 0:47:41 | |
# If I... | 0:47:41 | 0:47:44 | |
# ..should stay... # | 0:47:45 | 0:47:49 | |
Kevin Costner had said to me, "When she sings that song, in the first | 0:47:49 | 0:47:52 | |
"chorus I want it to be with no music." | 0:47:52 | 0:47:56 | |
And I said, "Kevin, that's so stupid. No music? | 0:47:56 | 0:47:59 | |
"Are you kidding me? We're trying to get on radio." | 0:47:59 | 0:48:02 | |
And I'm standing there, and she goes, "# If I... #" | 0:48:02 | 0:48:06 | |
And it was like, "Ohhh! My God, are you kidding me? | 0:48:06 | 0:48:09 | |
"This is the most incredible thing I've ever seen in my life." | 0:48:09 | 0:48:13 | |
And my demo did not include that. I had music right from the start. | 0:48:13 | 0:48:16 | |
And from that second on, I knew that the only way that record | 0:48:16 | 0:48:19 | |
could ever be that way was with that a cappella opening. | 0:48:19 | 0:48:22 | |
It's just one of the most breathtaking things I've ever | 0:48:22 | 0:48:25 | |
been part of. And it wasn't even my doing. It was Kevin Costner. | 0:48:25 | 0:48:29 | |
The Bodyguard just exploded her popularity, | 0:48:35 | 0:48:39 | |
so she was not prepared for that. | 0:48:39 | 0:48:41 | |
Before she became really, really big after The Bodyguard, | 0:48:42 | 0:48:46 | |
we would go to the mall and we'd just go shopping. | 0:48:46 | 0:48:50 | |
And then we noticed people would stop and nobody would be moving. | 0:48:50 | 0:48:56 | |
She had to realise, "I can't come out any more," | 0:48:56 | 0:48:58 | |
because you couldn't get from | 0:48:58 | 0:49:00 | |
point A to point B without 20 people asking for her autograph or a photo. | 0:49:00 | 0:49:04 | |
When it comes to the drugs, I don't think that she realised | 0:49:10 | 0:49:15 | |
she had a problem until after The Bodyguard. | 0:49:15 | 0:49:19 | |
It was no longer recreational. | 0:49:19 | 0:49:23 | |
This was something that she was doing more out of necessity | 0:49:23 | 0:49:28 | |
than just to have fun. | 0:49:28 | 0:49:30 | |
How much has success changed you? How different are you? | 0:49:31 | 0:49:35 | |
Probably... | 0:49:38 | 0:49:39 | |
Probably a lot more paranoid! SHE LAUGHS | 0:49:41 | 0:49:44 | |
I, um... | 0:49:44 | 0:49:46 | |
Success... | 0:49:46 | 0:49:47 | |
..doesn't change you, fame does. | 0:49:49 | 0:49:52 | |
Fame does. | 0:49:53 | 0:49:55 | |
You get a whole world of people calling your name | 0:49:55 | 0:49:58 | |
and you really don't know them. | 0:49:58 | 0:50:00 | |
It's weird. | 0:50:00 | 0:50:02 | |
Is there...Is there...Is there a misconception of the fact that, | 0:50:03 | 0:50:07 | |
when we become famous, that we have these beautiful, | 0:50:07 | 0:50:10 | |
perfect lives and that nothing is ever on a low? | 0:50:10 | 0:50:14 | |
SHE SCOFFS It's a bad conception, | 0:50:14 | 0:50:16 | |
because then people always think that you have to be this | 0:50:16 | 0:50:19 | |
grand old person that's just happy about life and everything, | 0:50:19 | 0:50:22 | |
because, what, we got money? Well, money doesn't make you happy. | 0:50:22 | 0:50:25 | |
It never did. I mean, history will tell you that. | 0:50:25 | 0:50:28 | |
And fame certainly doesn't make you happy. You know? | 0:50:28 | 0:50:31 | |
People will tell you that who are famous. You know? Um... | 0:50:31 | 0:50:35 | |
You got to find the happiness in yourself. | 0:50:35 | 0:50:37 | |
You got to know who you are before you step into this business, because | 0:50:37 | 0:50:40 | |
if you're trying to find it, you'll probably wind up being | 0:50:40 | 0:50:43 | |
somebody else that you probably don't even like. | 0:50:43 | 0:50:47 | |
Jesus! | 0:50:53 | 0:50:55 | |
Watch your step. | 0:51:03 | 0:51:05 | |
Her rise to fame just took the wind out of her. | 0:51:09 | 0:51:12 | |
And those were the times when she turned to God, | 0:51:13 | 0:51:17 | |
she turned to her faith. | 0:51:17 | 0:51:19 | |
She said, "God, you're the only one who understands. | 0:51:19 | 0:51:22 | |
"You're the only one who accepts me as I am." | 0:51:22 | 0:51:24 | |
# Babe | 0:51:29 | 0:51:31 | |
# If I could... | 0:51:31 | 0:51:32 | |
# Oh! # | 0:51:32 | 0:51:34 | |
I think maybe the greater of them, the greatest disappointment, | 0:51:35 | 0:51:39 | |
was that she felt like she had let God down, too. | 0:51:39 | 0:51:42 | |
She knew that her gift came from Him. | 0:51:42 | 0:51:44 | |
She felt that she had let Him down with the way | 0:51:44 | 0:51:47 | |
she had not taken care of her body, of her instrument. | 0:51:47 | 0:51:51 | |
Are we out here? | 0:51:51 | 0:51:53 | |
All right, we here. We here, we here. | 0:51:53 | 0:51:55 | |
We're asking for a special, | 0:51:57 | 0:51:59 | |
special blessing, that you bring it on down here... | 0:51:59 | 0:52:02 | |
..that you go inside, Father God, because only you know what's inside. | 0:52:02 | 0:52:07 | |
Only you know what's inside, | 0:52:07 | 0:52:08 | |
only you know how to fix things that we can't even fix. | 0:52:08 | 0:52:12 | |
We know there's power in the name of Jesus, | 0:52:14 | 0:52:16 | |
we know that the blood of the lamb covers all | 0:52:16 | 0:52:19 | |
and that it's a healing power, | 0:52:19 | 0:52:21 | |
and we're asking that you do not pass us by. | 0:52:21 | 0:52:24 | |
AUDIENCE CHEERS | 0:52:24 | 0:52:26 | |
Can I take you someplace with me? Will you go there? | 0:52:50 | 0:52:54 | |
MUSIC STARTS | 0:52:54 | 0:52:55 | |
So, when we go to church, which is | 0:52:57 | 0:52:59 | |
where I want to take you right now... | 0:52:59 | 0:53:01 | |
..we get very excited, we get very happy, we may start to cry... | 0:53:01 | 0:53:07 | |
..because we feel a joy like a river in our souls, | 0:53:07 | 0:53:10 | |
and we just have to let it out... | 0:53:10 | 0:53:12 | |
BACKING SINGERS CROON | 0:53:12 | 0:53:14 | |
..and sing praises to the Almighty God, you know? | 0:53:14 | 0:53:17 | |
# Ooh, Lord Oh, Lord | 0:53:19 | 0:53:22 | |
# I love you | 0:53:22 | 0:53:24 | |
# I do | 0:53:24 | 0:53:26 | |
# I love you | 0:53:26 | 0:53:28 | |
# I love you, I love you | 0:53:28 | 0:53:31 | |
# I love you | 0:53:31 | 0:53:34 | |
# I hasten to His mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty... | 0:53:34 | 0:53:41 | |
# Going to praise Him | 0:53:41 | 0:53:43 | |
# I hasten to I'll hasten to | 0:53:43 | 0:53:47 | |
# Your love, yeah | 0:53:47 | 0:53:51 | |
# I will know Yes, I will | 0:53:51 | 0:53:55 | |
# Lord, I love you | 0:53:56 | 0:53:58 | |
# You know, you know I do, Lord | 0:53:58 | 0:54:01 | |
# I surely love you I can't do without you | 0:54:01 | 0:54:05 | |
# I can't live, yeah, I can't live I can't live another day without you | 0:54:05 | 0:54:11 | |
# I can't live without you, Father | 0:54:11 | 0:54:13 | |
# No! No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no | 0:54:13 | 0:54:18 | |
# I cannot make it, I cannot make it | 0:54:18 | 0:54:23 | |
# Without your love, without your peace, your joy | 0:54:23 | 0:54:27 | |
# You give your joy unspeakable | 0:54:27 | 0:54:31 | |
# You give your joy unspeakable | 0:54:32 | 0:54:35 | |
# You give your joy You give your joy | 0:54:36 | 0:54:41 | |
# Joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy | 0:54:41 | 0:54:45 | |
# You give your joy You give your joy | 0:54:45 | 0:54:50 | |
# Nobody, nobody can take it away... # | 0:54:50 | 0:54:54 | |
There were moments when we and the audience were transformed | 0:55:02 | 0:55:05 | |
by her voice, and that is a God thing, that's not a human thing. | 0:55:05 | 0:55:09 | |
# Ooh, give it up for God... # | 0:55:09 | 0:55:12 | |
Whitney knew that she had that gift. | 0:55:12 | 0:55:14 | |
She could knock you over and sing a gospel riff, or whatever. | 0:55:14 | 0:55:18 | |
But then she could just caress a note in such a way that said, | 0:55:19 | 0:55:21 | |
"Oh, my God, is this...?" | 0:55:21 | 0:55:25 | |
It's a God thing. | 0:55:25 | 0:55:26 | |
# Ooh, Lord | 0:55:26 | 0:55:29 | |
# Oh, Lord | 0:55:29 | 0:55:31 | |
# Ooh, Saviour | 0:55:31 | 0:55:34 | |
# Don't pass me by. # | 0:55:34 | 0:55:36 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:55:36 | 0:55:38 | |
This is the home of the dancers, the background singers, | 0:55:45 | 0:55:51 | |
the gentlemen we call the main corps to the band, | 0:55:51 | 0:55:53 | |
the backing unit... | 0:55:53 | 0:55:54 | |
-..make-up... -Hello. | 0:55:55 | 0:55:58 | |
-..hair. -Hi! | 0:55:58 | 0:56:01 | |
Robyn! | 0:56:01 | 0:56:02 | |
-Robyn I want to get this photo of you... -OK. | 0:56:04 | 0:56:06 | |
Robyn and Whitney were like twins. They were inseparable. | 0:56:11 | 0:56:17 | |
They were inseparable. | 0:56:17 | 0:56:18 | |
And everybody, again, knew the power that Robyn had. | 0:56:18 | 0:56:23 | |
..in your respective places. | 0:56:23 | 0:56:26 | |
Band and dancers up, up in the front here. | 0:56:27 | 0:56:31 | |
Right here. Excuse us. On your knees. | 0:56:31 | 0:56:34 | |
Whitney and Robyn had a bond. | 0:56:34 | 0:56:37 | |
They had a bond, | 0:56:37 | 0:56:39 | |
and Bobby Brown could never remove Robyn from the relationship. | 0:56:39 | 0:56:45 | |
And that was part of his frustration, because he wanted | 0:56:45 | 0:56:49 | |
Whitney Houston to love him as the man of the relationship... | 0:56:49 | 0:56:52 | |
..and he wanted Whitney to remove Robyn from their relationship, | 0:56:54 | 0:57:00 | |
and Whitney didn't want to do it, | 0:57:00 | 0:57:03 | |
because Robyn cared for Whitney more than | 0:57:03 | 0:57:07 | |
she probably would care for anybody. | 0:57:07 | 0:57:09 | |
After a while, you get sleepy. You just go with the flow. | 0:57:30 | 0:57:36 | |
-VOICEOVER: -I kinda know what Whitney wants to go on around her. | 0:57:38 | 0:57:42 | |
And sometimes it's a little difficult to convey that to people. | 0:57:44 | 0:57:48 | |
You have to just go and do it yourself. | 0:57:48 | 0:57:50 | |
So most people would say I'm just about everywhere. | 0:57:51 | 0:57:56 | |
One, two, three, go. | 0:57:56 | 0:57:58 | |
-ALL: -# If we take this chance | 0:57:58 | 0:58:02 | |
# Extend to each other romance | 0:58:02 | 0:58:05 | |
# I hope it will be | 0:58:05 | 0:58:11 | |
# The right thing... # | 0:58:11 | 0:58:14 | |
See, slide, like... # If we take this chance | 0:58:14 | 0:58:20 | |
# Extend to each other romance | 0:58:20 | 0:58:24 | |
# I hope | 0:58:24 | 0:58:26 | |
# It would be... # | 0:58:26 | 0:58:28 | |
# You and you and you and you | 0:58:28 | 0:58:32 | |
# Uh-huh | 0:58:32 | 0:58:34 | |
SHE SINGS ALONG | 0:58:40 | 0:58:43 | |
# If I told you that... | 0:58:46 | 0:58:48 | |
# I know that we're just friends | 0:58:49 | 0:58:51 | |
# But what if I decide to bring something in? | 0:58:51 | 0:58:57 | |
# Oh, my, my, my, my, my | 0:58:57 | 0:58:59 | |
# I hope it won't affect the trust we have | 0:58:59 | 0:59:03 | |
# Because I don't want this to end... # | 0:59:03 | 0:59:06 | |
Bobby Brown and Robyn Crawford together was | 0:59:06 | 0:59:09 | |
the equivalent of fire and water, petrol and a short fuse. | 0:59:09 | 0:59:15 | |
They hated each other. | 0:59:15 | 0:59:17 | |
Yes. Simple. | 0:59:17 | 0:59:19 | |
They would battle for her affection, they'd battle for her attention, | 0:59:19 | 0:59:23 | |
mainly to identify with the hate they had for each other. | 0:59:23 | 0:59:27 | |
Come here. | 0:59:46 | 0:59:47 | |
There were numerous fights between Robyn and Bobby Brown. | 0:59:52 | 0:59:57 | |
Serious fights. | 0:59:57 | 0:59:59 | |
Bobby and Robyn had some physical altercations, | 0:59:59 | 1:00:06 | |
and I think there were times when he wasn't always the winner! | 1:00:06 | 1:00:09 | |
Yes! Yes. | 1:00:09 | 1:00:12 | |
But then, Whitney would come in-between them and she'd... | 1:00:15 | 1:00:18 | |
..you know, pour the oil on the troubled waters. | 1:00:20 | 1:00:23 | |
# How will I know? # | 1:00:23 | 1:00:26 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 1:00:26 | 1:00:28 | |
You know, I...I often have a conversation with my daughter... | 1:00:34 | 1:00:39 | |
..one that I cherish so much, so I'm going to share it with you. | 1:00:41 | 1:00:45 | |
I... | 1:00:46 | 1:00:48 | |
Just so that I know that she knows the real deal... | 1:00:48 | 1:00:52 | |
..I ask her... | 1:00:53 | 1:00:56 | |
.."Who put the sun in the sky?" | 1:00:56 | 1:00:58 | |
She says... # God did. # | 1:01:01 | 1:01:04 | |
# If tomorrow is just we two | 1:01:13 | 1:01:15 | |
# And I'm standing on the front line... # | 1:01:18 | 1:01:22 | |
You look so pretty. | 1:01:22 | 1:01:24 | |
# And the Lord asks me what I did with my life | 1:01:24 | 1:01:28 | |
# I will say, "I spent it with you..." # | 1:01:28 | 1:01:34 | |
Go ahead, I'm here. | 1:01:34 | 1:01:36 | |
# My name is Bobby Kris And I just wanna say | 1:01:36 | 1:01:39 | |
# Clap your hands Clap your hands... # | 1:01:39 | 1:01:44 | |
Say it again. | 1:01:44 | 1:01:45 | |
# My name is Bobbi Kris And I just wanna say | 1:01:45 | 1:01:48 | |
# Clap your hands Clap your hands | 1:01:48 | 1:01:53 | |
# Clap your hands... # | 1:01:53 | 1:01:55 | |
Go reggae, go. | 1:01:55 | 1:01:57 | |
# Clap your hands | 1:01:57 | 1:01:59 | |
WHITNEY VOCALISES | 1:01:59 | 1:02:02 | |
Come on, Kris! Come on. | 1:02:05 | 1:02:08 | |
# Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump | 1:02:08 | 1:02:10 | |
# Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump | 1:02:28 | 1:02:31 | |
# Clap your hands Clap your hands... # | 1:02:31 | 1:02:36 | |
MUSIC STOPS | 1:02:38 | 1:02:40 | |
I said the record is not over yet! | 1:02:40 | 1:02:42 | |
AUDIENCE CHEERS | 1:02:42 | 1:02:44 | |
You know, these days you have to stay up with your children, | 1:02:48 | 1:02:50 | |
you have to be as hip as they are, | 1:02:50 | 1:02:52 | |
and Bobbi Kris and I have a great relationship. | 1:02:52 | 1:02:55 | |
We really do, and I'm very, very proud of that. I cherish it. | 1:02:55 | 1:02:59 | |
And I am really, really dying to get home to see her little face, | 1:02:59 | 1:03:05 | |
and she's dying for me to come home. | 1:03:05 | 1:03:08 | |
You know? So that's a good feeling, you know, | 1:03:08 | 1:03:11 | |
when she talks about me to her friends, "My mom's away." | 1:03:11 | 1:03:14 | |
"My mom's coming back." "Look what my mom bought me. She sent me..." | 1:03:14 | 1:03:18 | |
I send her dollies every now and then, you know, | 1:03:18 | 1:03:21 | |
because she loves dolls. She loves to play with them. | 1:03:21 | 1:03:23 | |
I try to talk to her at least three times a week, | 1:03:23 | 1:03:28 | |
although it's very hard to talk. | 1:03:28 | 1:03:30 | |
It's worse to talk sometimes than not to, | 1:03:30 | 1:03:34 | |
because you feel that longing, you feel that passion, | 1:03:34 | 1:03:37 | |
that love between a child and a mother, and it's very deep. | 1:03:37 | 1:03:41 | |
It's very strong. Very strong. | 1:03:41 | 1:03:43 | |
Um, when she had to leave... I had her out here the first half, | 1:03:44 | 1:03:48 | |
before she went to school. | 1:03:48 | 1:03:50 | |
That day that she had to leave, I thought that we would be strong, | 1:03:50 | 1:03:53 | |
I thought I would be strong and I wouldn't cry, | 1:03:53 | 1:03:56 | |
but I couldn't help it, and I just really broke down, and she did, too. | 1:03:56 | 1:04:00 | |
And it made me feel really good - | 1:04:00 | 1:04:03 | |
and I felt really bad because I knew I had to let her go - | 1:04:03 | 1:04:06 | |
but it made me feel really good to know that she would miss me | 1:04:06 | 1:04:09 | |
and love me as much as I missed and loved her. | 1:04:09 | 1:04:11 | |
Sweet girl, she really was. She'd run up and down the corridor, | 1:04:13 | 1:04:17 | |
in and out of everybody's rooms and that sort of thing. Yeah. | 1:04:17 | 1:04:20 | |
I didn't think, "The writing's on the wall for this kid," | 1:04:20 | 1:04:23 | |
no, I did not, | 1:04:23 | 1:04:24 | |
because you always think that with new life comes new hope | 1:04:24 | 1:04:27 | |
and something would have twigged or clicked | 1:04:27 | 1:04:30 | |
and it would have made it better for her. | 1:04:30 | 1:04:32 | |
But as time went on, no. | 1:04:32 | 1:04:35 | |
No. No chance for Bobbi Kristina. | 1:04:37 | 1:04:40 | |
She came into the environment just when it started to get worse. | 1:04:45 | 1:04:50 | |
And I'm convinced now... | 1:04:52 | 1:04:54 | |
..that, had anyone read... | 1:04:55 | 1:04:59 | |
..listened to and acted upon my reports... | 1:04:59 | 1:05:03 | |
..she would now be alive... | 1:05:05 | 1:05:08 | |
..as would her daughter. | 1:05:08 | 1:05:10 | |
I submitted my report to the family members who | 1:05:12 | 1:05:15 | |
were in charge of the business of Whitney Houston | 1:05:15 | 1:05:19 | |
after a disastrous tour to Singapore. | 1:05:19 | 1:05:23 | |
It's part of my duty not only to protect a principal | 1:05:23 | 1:05:27 | |
from the outside elements, it's to protect them from themselves. | 1:05:27 | 1:05:32 | |
She had nodules on her throat. | 1:05:36 | 1:05:37 | |
It was being destroyed, presumably with the chemicals. | 1:05:37 | 1:05:41 | |
Whitney overdosed while she was making the film Waiting To Exhale. | 1:05:44 | 1:05:48 | |
That's when you've got a problem. | 1:05:49 | 1:05:51 | |
Everybody was on drugs. | 1:05:53 | 1:05:55 | |
It's a case of degrees, to what degree the individuals | 1:05:55 | 1:06:00 | |
concerned were on drugs, that's all. | 1:06:00 | 1:06:02 | |
I put it down on paper, and I got the telephone call and the meeting. | 1:06:06 | 1:06:11 | |
"Thank you very much. | 1:06:11 | 1:06:13 | |
"Miss Houston has decided she doesn't need anyone of your calibre | 1:06:13 | 1:06:17 | |
"and experience again, | 1:06:17 | 1:06:19 | |
"because she's not touring internationally in the future. | 1:06:19 | 1:06:22 | |
"Should we need someone of your skills, we will call upon you." | 1:06:22 | 1:06:25 | |
And that was the answer to the "do something to help her" report. | 1:06:25 | 1:06:29 | |
PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOUT OUT | 1:06:29 | 1:06:31 | |
We're five now! | 1:06:34 | 1:06:35 | |
There was that level of inevitability about the end of this | 1:06:38 | 1:06:41 | |
shortly after 1992. Bobby Brown came on the scene. | 1:06:41 | 1:06:46 | |
Lots of drinking, lots of partying. | 1:06:47 | 1:06:50 | |
Though by herself she would have done anything to remain | 1:06:50 | 1:06:55 | |
nondescript, when in his presence it became a competition. | 1:06:55 | 1:07:01 | |
-So, put that motherfucking camera on me. -That's right. | 1:07:01 | 1:07:04 | |
-Here you go. -I'm the man. | 1:07:04 | 1:07:07 | |
-Let me get that mic. -There you go. | 1:07:07 | 1:07:10 | |
-Let us do this ourselves. Check it out, y'all. Yo, yo. -You just talk. | 1:07:11 | 1:07:15 | |
Man, just talk. | 1:07:15 | 1:07:17 | |
Can you tell me what tonight's all about and why everyone's here? | 1:07:17 | 1:07:21 | |
"Why everyone's here"? Isn't it obvious? It's my birthday, dawg. | 1:07:21 | 1:07:25 | |
-Check it out. It's my birthday. My wife gave me a party, right? -Yeah. | 1:07:25 | 1:07:30 | |
And we just chilling, right? Yo, MTV. This is my birthday, dawg! | 1:07:30 | 1:07:35 | |
It's my birthday, dawg! Boom! | 1:07:35 | 1:07:37 | |
Whitney was getting high before Bobby ever came in the picture. | 1:07:41 | 1:07:46 | |
I think they had a co-dependent relationship. | 1:07:46 | 1:07:50 | |
Bobby didn't do drugs when he met Whitney, | 1:07:50 | 1:07:52 | |
Whitney didn't really drink when she met Bobby. | 1:07:52 | 1:07:54 | |
But they both had their thing - she had her drugs, he had his liquor - | 1:07:54 | 1:07:57 | |
and when they came together they both started doing both, | 1:07:57 | 1:08:00 | |
which was terrible. | 1:08:00 | 1:08:01 | |
HE MOUTHS | 1:08:07 | 1:08:09 | |
Bobby was notorious for sleeping with the girls on the tour. | 1:08:19 | 1:08:23 | |
He was not really ready to take on the role of a husband. | 1:08:23 | 1:08:28 | |
Remember, he was much younger than her. | 1:08:28 | 1:08:30 | |
When Whitney got married, Whitney got married forever. | 1:08:31 | 1:08:35 | |
That was her biggest downfall. | 1:08:35 | 1:08:37 | |
The longer she stayed in it, the harder it was to get out. | 1:08:37 | 1:08:41 | |
She didn't want to go against God and get a divorce, and then, | 1:08:41 | 1:08:46 | |
once she had Bobbi Kristina, she wanted her to have her father, | 1:08:46 | 1:08:50 | |
and even though he was not treating her right, I think | 1:08:50 | 1:08:54 | |
she stayed for Bobbi Kristina. | 1:08:54 | 1:08:56 | |
WHITNEY LAUGHS | 1:09:26 | 1:09:28 | |
Bobby brought her down because he wanted to be up, | 1:09:42 | 1:09:46 | |
and she brought herself down trying to be on his level. | 1:09:46 | 1:09:49 | |
So it was this emotional sort of blackmail of, you know, | 1:09:49 | 1:09:52 | |
"You're no better than me. You're not that big of a star. | 1:09:52 | 1:09:54 | |
"You don't deserve all this. You're just lucky." | 1:09:54 | 1:09:57 | |
Just things like that played tricks with her mind, | 1:09:57 | 1:09:59 | |
because she had low self-esteem. | 1:09:59 | 1:10:00 | |
She was so worried about her hair. She wore wigs and weaves, | 1:10:03 | 1:10:07 | |
and her hair wouldn't grow and her nails wouldn't grow. | 1:10:07 | 1:10:10 | |
This is this big superstar, | 1:10:10 | 1:10:12 | |
and she never had that security that she sort of needed, | 1:10:12 | 1:10:15 | |
she never had that inner belief that she was this amazing person. | 1:10:15 | 1:10:19 | |
She was always sort of doubting herself. | 1:10:19 | 1:10:21 | |
And I think Bobby contributed to that tremendously. | 1:10:21 | 1:10:26 | |
Did Robyn try and keep Whitney off drugs? | 1:10:42 | 1:10:45 | |
She did. She did. | 1:10:45 | 1:10:48 | |
They had dozens of arguments... | 1:10:48 | 1:10:52 | |
..over... | 1:10:53 | 1:10:55 | |
..Whitney getting high. | 1:10:55 | 1:10:58 | |
And something that started as simple as Whitney smoking weed... | 1:11:07 | 1:11:13 | |
..turned into a monster... | 1:11:15 | 1:11:19 | |
turned into something that Whitney lost control of. | 1:11:19 | 1:11:25 | |
All of the people that had positions of power that could have | 1:11:25 | 1:11:31 | |
steered her the right way was either not seeing what was happening or... | 1:11:31 | 1:11:39 | |
..being a part of it. | 1:11:39 | 1:11:41 | |
On page 128, you write about the first time you hear | 1:11:43 | 1:11:47 | |
anything about Whitney using drugs. | 1:11:47 | 1:11:51 | |
You say, "One afternoon in the late 1980s, Robyn came to visit me. | 1:11:51 | 1:11:58 | |
"She told me that Nippy was using drugs, which was news to me." | 1:11:58 | 1:12:02 | |
-She was telling on Nippy, actually, you know? -Mm-hm. | 1:12:02 | 1:12:05 | |
-I guess I said... Well, I went to her. -You went to Nippy? -Mm-hm. | 1:12:05 | 1:12:10 | |
-After the visit from Robyn. -Mm-hm. I saw her one time really high. | 1:12:10 | 1:12:13 | |
-And I wanted to kill her. -Mm-hm... -I really did. | 1:12:13 | 1:12:17 | |
But I held myself back and, I tell you, she said, "Mommy, Mommy..." | 1:12:17 | 1:12:21 | |
And she was so sad and pitiful. | 1:12:21 | 1:12:23 | |
One time, Whitney wasn't even talking to her mom. | 1:12:25 | 1:12:28 | |
Nobody wanted to blame Whitney. | 1:12:32 | 1:12:35 | |
But Cissy made it no secret. She wanted to beat Robyn onto something. | 1:12:36 | 1:12:42 | |
She wanted to kick Robyn's ass. | 1:12:42 | 1:12:45 | |
You know? Every opportunity she got, she wanted to do something to Robyn. | 1:12:45 | 1:12:50 | |
Ridiculous! | 1:12:50 | 1:12:52 | |
They needed to blame somebody. Before it was Bobby, it was Robyn. | 1:12:56 | 1:13:00 | |
We blamed Robyn because Whitney don't want to talk to us. | 1:13:00 | 1:13:04 | |
It's Robyn's fault. "No, it's YOUR fault." | 1:13:04 | 1:13:06 | |
Did she shut off from it? Did she try and shut off from it? | 1:13:11 | 1:13:14 | |
Did she refuse to answer phone calls from these people? | 1:13:14 | 1:13:17 | |
Hell, yes, she did. | 1:13:17 | 1:13:18 | |
For her own sanity, her own peace of mind. | 1:13:19 | 1:13:23 | |
Would that kind of pressure being brought on her by others have | 1:13:24 | 1:13:28 | |
driven her in a direction she otherwise may not have gone? | 1:13:28 | 1:13:31 | |
Hell, yes, it did! Yes, it did. | 1:13:31 | 1:13:35 | |
That's why there is not one person out there | 1:13:35 | 1:13:38 | |
not responsible for the demise of that beautiful woman. | 1:13:38 | 1:13:42 | |
MUSIC PLAYS, AUDIENCE CHEERS | 1:13:42 | 1:13:45 | |
There was nothing I could do. | 1:14:41 | 1:14:42 | |
And not being a family member or someone | 1:14:42 | 1:14:47 | |
high enough in the food chain, I had no say-so. | 1:14:47 | 1:14:51 | |
I could only talk to her in those moments when we were doing hair, | 1:14:51 | 1:14:56 | |
and I could just tell her, "Whitney, you're killing yourself. | 1:14:56 | 1:14:59 | |
"You're going to die. You have to stop." | 1:14:59 | 1:15:03 | |
I also spoke to other people in her camp. | 1:15:05 | 1:15:07 | |
"Maybe she needs to just stop for a while, she needs to go to rehab..." | 1:15:07 | 1:15:11 | |
But when you making money for people, you paying their rent, | 1:15:11 | 1:15:16 | |
they don't want you to stop. | 1:15:16 | 1:15:17 | |
CHEERING CONTINUES | 1:15:17 | 1:15:18 | |
Nippy, who made you cry out there? Who made you cry out there? | 1:15:18 | 1:15:23 | |
Them. | 1:15:23 | 1:15:25 | |
People forget that they're human beings, and she felt deeply. | 1:15:27 | 1:15:32 | |
That's how she could bring what she did to songs, | 1:15:34 | 1:15:38 | |
that's how she could make every song her own. | 1:15:38 | 1:15:40 | |
How many times did you change? | 1:15:51 | 1:15:53 | |
MUSIC PLAYS, AUDIENCE CLAP ALONG | 1:15:57 | 1:15:59 | |
She would have to pull and sing from every place in her, and | 1:16:09 | 1:16:15 | |
then to couple that with the emotion, | 1:16:15 | 1:16:17 | |
that takes all of your body. | 1:16:17 | 1:16:19 | |
Who does that at the level that Whitney Houston did it? | 1:16:20 | 1:16:24 | |
I haven't seen anybody do it. Not in my lifetime. | 1:16:24 | 1:16:28 | |
There will always only be one Whitney Houston, | 1:16:28 | 1:16:30 | |
and to watch the world... | 1:16:30 | 1:16:33 | |
..receive from her and appreciate her, there aren't words for that. | 1:16:33 | 1:16:38 | |
And all you can say is, "Drug addict"? Come on. Please! | 1:16:40 | 1:16:44 | |
# When the tears are clouding up your eyes | 1:16:44 | 1:16:49 | |
# Just remember it was you, you, you, you, you, you | 1:16:51 | 1:16:55 | |
# Who said goodbye | 1:16:55 | 1:16:58 | |
# Who said goodbye | 1:16:59 | 1:17:01 | |
# You said goodbye | 1:17:01 | 1:17:11 | |
# I learned from the best I learned from the best | 1:17:11 | 1:17:16 | |
# I learned from the best Oh! # | 1:17:17 | 1:17:22 | |
-All right, OK. You got it. You got it. -Whitney... | 1:17:23 | 1:17:26 | |
MUSIC PLAYS | 1:18:03 | 1:18:06 | |
-No, we're not leaving! We're not leaving! -Wait! We're not leaving. | 1:18:26 | 1:18:29 | |
-We're not leaving. -We're not leaving. | 1:18:29 | 1:18:31 | |
That's right, we're not leaving. | 1:18:31 | 1:18:33 | |
Get the cars organised. We're not leaving, but get the cars. | 1:18:33 | 1:18:37 | |
-DAVID ROBERTS: -It was from one disaster to another disaster. | 1:18:39 | 1:18:42 | |
There was no order from chaos. | 1:18:44 | 1:18:46 | |
I can't remember there ever... | 1:18:47 | 1:18:50 | |
..being a good moment between Robyn and Bobby Brown. | 1:18:51 | 1:18:58 | |
In my opinion, there came a time | 1:19:00 | 1:19:02 | |
when even Whitney couldn't tolerate it any more, and Robyn finally left. | 1:19:02 | 1:19:08 | |
Robyn totally disappeared. I'm assuming they paid her off. | 1:19:48 | 1:19:50 | |
I don't know. But she just disappeared. | 1:19:50 | 1:19:53 | |
I never saw her again. And she was everywhere with her before. | 1:19:53 | 1:19:56 | |
I think they prevented it. I think it was sort of understood | 1:20:00 | 1:20:03 | |
that they could not connect again. | 1:20:03 | 1:20:04 | |
It had to be Bobby and Whitney in this family unit. | 1:20:04 | 1:20:07 | |
I will always say that was the downfall of Whitney. | 1:20:09 | 1:20:12 | |
Robyn was the person who was keeping her together. | 1:20:12 | 1:20:16 | |
And I think that's why the drugs became so important to her. | 1:20:16 | 1:20:18 | |
That was the crutch that she used to get through that. | 1:20:18 | 1:20:21 | |
The drugs sent her spiralling. | 1:20:23 | 1:20:26 | |
This is the 72nd annual Academy Awards! | 1:20:27 | 1:20:30 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 1:20:30 | 1:20:32 | |
We did the rehearsal Friday night. | 1:20:37 | 1:20:40 | |
She sings the first 12 bars of, um... | 1:20:40 | 1:20:42 | |
..Somewhere Over The Rainbow... | 1:20:44 | 1:20:46 | |
..and she's singing her own notes, basically, | 1:20:48 | 1:20:51 | |
or changing the melody substantially. | 1:20:51 | 1:20:53 | |
Then a couple of other things just went wrong, | 1:20:55 | 1:20:58 | |
she came in on the wrong song, and so it just was like a train wreck. | 1:20:58 | 1:21:03 | |
It was kinda startling. | 1:21:03 | 1:21:06 | |
It was so dangerous. This is live television. | 1:21:07 | 1:21:10 | |
And there was no salvation on something like that. | 1:21:10 | 1:21:14 | |
If she sang the wrong song, nobody would know what to do - | 1:21:14 | 1:21:17 | |
even Ray Charles wouldn't know how to cover that - | 1:21:17 | 1:21:19 | |
and how we would jump around, and we'd be scrambling. | 1:21:19 | 1:21:23 | |
So, you know, the right decision was made. | 1:21:23 | 1:21:26 | |
Of course, that's a very difficult thing to do at that hour of | 1:21:26 | 1:21:30 | |
the night, at midnight on a Friday night and the show goes on Sunday, | 1:21:30 | 1:21:35 | |
to replace her. | 1:21:35 | 1:21:36 | |
CHEERING | 1:21:36 | 1:21:39 | |
# If you can't feed your baby... # | 1:21:39 | 1:21:41 | |
That Michael Jackson concert, when she was emaciated, | 1:21:41 | 1:21:46 | |
I remember walking in that day. They called me to do her hair. | 1:21:46 | 1:21:50 | |
And I could not believe what I was seeing. | 1:21:50 | 1:21:52 | |
And I could hear people saying, "You look fabulous." | 1:21:52 | 1:21:56 | |
And I'm saying, "No, she doesn't." | 1:21:56 | 1:21:58 | |
And I take Whitney in the bathroom... | 1:21:58 | 1:22:00 | |
..and I close the door and I pull her shirt up in the mirror, | 1:22:00 | 1:22:04 | |
and I say, "Look, you're dying." And she started crying. | 1:22:04 | 1:22:08 | |
She's like, "I know. I don't know what to do." | 1:22:08 | 1:22:10 | |
Is it alcohol? Is it marijuana? | 1:22:12 | 1:22:16 | |
Is it cocaine? Is it pills? | 1:22:16 | 1:22:18 | |
It has been, at times. | 1:22:20 | 1:22:23 | |
All? | 1:22:23 | 1:22:24 | |
At times. | 1:22:24 | 1:22:25 | |
If you had to name the devil, for you, | 1:22:27 | 1:22:29 | |
the biggest devil among them...? | 1:22:29 | 1:22:31 | |
That would be me. | 1:22:34 | 1:22:36 | |
And then, last September, the biggest blow of all. | 1:22:38 | 1:22:42 | |
Houston's father, who managed his daughter's finances, joined | 1:22:42 | 1:22:45 | |
his business partner in a lawsuit against her, demanding 100 million. | 1:22:45 | 1:22:50 | |
I'm tired of being hurt. | 1:22:50 | 1:22:52 | |
I'm tired of being... | 1:22:55 | 1:22:57 | |
..in a neglected state. | 1:22:57 | 1:22:59 | |
You get your act together, honey... | 1:22:59 | 1:23:01 | |
..and you pay me the money that you owe me. | 1:23:02 | 1:23:04 | |
My father is... | 1:23:04 | 1:23:06 | |
..81, very sick. | 1:23:08 | 1:23:11 | |
His health is failing. | 1:23:12 | 1:23:15 | |
The bad part about it is that it's about money. | 1:23:15 | 1:23:17 | |
And that really sucks. | 1:23:18 | 1:23:20 | |
That hurts more than anything. | 1:23:21 | 1:23:24 | |
And when you think it's the dad who dressed you | 1:23:24 | 1:23:27 | |
and walked you down the aisle... | 1:23:27 | 1:23:29 | |
What are you thinking? | 1:23:31 | 1:23:32 | |
That moment. | 1:23:35 | 1:23:37 | |
-Can we stop, please? -Sure. | 1:23:42 | 1:23:45 | |
-Thanks. I'll be back. -Sure. | 1:23:45 | 1:23:47 | |
I think the biggest change in her came when her dad disappointed her. | 1:23:50 | 1:23:57 | |
She was closer to her dad than her mother. | 1:24:00 | 1:24:03 | |
She was secure in the fact that, "Daddy got my back, | 1:24:05 | 1:24:09 | |
"Daddy's going to take care of me, he's going to protect me." | 1:24:09 | 1:24:11 | |
And when that trust was broken for her, I think | 1:24:11 | 1:24:15 | |
it broke something inside of her that she could never repair. | 1:24:15 | 1:24:19 | |
She disappeared for a while. I remember I went to ask people, | 1:24:28 | 1:24:31 | |
"Where's Whitney?" | 1:24:31 | 1:24:32 | |
Particularly after the show, which was hard, | 1:24:32 | 1:24:34 | |
she got out of town for a while. | 1:24:34 | 1:24:36 | |
I heard that she'd moved to Atlanta, and that provided a whole | 1:24:37 | 1:24:41 | |
other area of, you know, sort of, I guess, a little bit more freedom. | 1:24:41 | 1:24:45 | |
It's a very fun place, and I think there's less spotlight on you there, | 1:24:45 | 1:24:51 | |
because she was away from her mother, as well. | 1:24:51 | 1:24:53 | |
I'm taking water. | 1:25:29 | 1:25:31 | |
She wanted to be normal. | 1:25:48 | 1:25:51 | |
Many nights, she'd lay in her bed and cry, cry, cry. | 1:25:51 | 1:25:55 | |
She missed her dad. | 1:25:57 | 1:25:59 | |
She loved Bobbi girl so much. | 1:26:00 | 1:26:02 | |
That was her life. | 1:26:04 | 1:26:05 | |
-We used to slide down that banister. -SHE LAUGHS | 1:26:10 | 1:26:13 | |
Me and Whitney used to slide down here! | 1:26:13 | 1:26:16 | |
That's probably why... Yeah. | 1:26:16 | 1:26:17 | |
Remember when I told you that Cissy came to the house for her rehab? | 1:26:21 | 1:26:27 | |
You see that balcony? | 1:26:27 | 1:26:29 | |
When I was backing up here with the girls in the car, | 1:26:29 | 1:26:34 | |
they was like, "No, wait, wait! Look!" | 1:26:34 | 1:26:37 | |
-She had one leg over. -INTERVIEWER: -Over the balcony? | 1:26:37 | 1:26:39 | |
She said, "If you don't come back, I'm going to jump." | 1:26:39 | 1:26:42 | |
What could I do? I had to go back. | 1:26:42 | 1:26:44 | |
Then she jumped out the back window! | 1:26:46 | 1:26:49 | |
Crazy. | 1:26:50 | 1:26:52 | |
She was an addict. | 1:26:53 | 1:26:55 | |
It was an everyday thing. | 1:26:57 | 1:26:59 | |
I would do my work, but it was, like, after I did the work, | 1:26:59 | 1:27:03 | |
like, for a whole year or two, it was every day. | 1:27:03 | 1:27:08 | |
I was still reading my Bible, amazingly enough. | 1:27:09 | 1:27:12 | |
I would still read my Bible. | 1:27:12 | 1:27:14 | |
I still had it in me, I knew God was there | 1:27:14 | 1:27:15 | |
and I knew a light was there, and I was just trying to get back to it. | 1:27:15 | 1:27:19 | |
I was definitely not happy by that point in time. I was losing myself. | 1:27:19 | 1:27:24 | |
My mom came and got me twice. | 1:27:24 | 1:27:26 | |
When it gets to the point where you're sitting in your home | 1:27:26 | 1:27:29 | |
and you're just trying to cover what you don't want people to know, | 1:27:29 | 1:27:34 | |
it's painful. | 1:27:34 | 1:27:36 | |
And then you want more, just so that you don't | 1:27:36 | 1:27:39 | |
let anybody see you cry. | 1:27:39 | 1:27:41 | |
You don't want anybody to see that, you know, we're unhappy. | 1:27:41 | 1:27:45 | |
Whitney said to me her heart was broken. | 1:27:46 | 1:27:50 | |
She was broken-hearted, you know? | 1:27:53 | 1:27:56 | |
This was my friend, my sister. She was so loving and generous. | 1:27:56 | 1:28:02 | |
Why isn't anybody out there rallying for that with the same | 1:28:02 | 1:28:07 | |
fervour of attack and criticism against her? | 1:28:07 | 1:28:11 | |
Where is the great appreciation for her contribution to the world? | 1:28:11 | 1:28:16 | |
Whitney talked about how it was very, very painful for her. | 1:28:17 | 1:28:22 | |
She was bad at that time, but she wanted help. She wanted help. | 1:28:25 | 1:28:29 | |
But she didn't want to be in some rich, | 1:28:29 | 1:28:32 | |
extravagant treatment facility. | 1:28:32 | 1:28:35 | |
She wanted to be home, she wanted her daughter with her. | 1:28:35 | 1:28:38 | |
All she wanted to do was be married and raise Krissie and, you know, | 1:28:40 | 1:28:44 | |
be in love and be happy and give her daughter what she wanted. | 1:28:44 | 1:28:48 | |
And she wanted to be normal. | 1:28:48 | 1:28:49 | |
She really didn't care about the fancy clothes, the fancy cars | 1:28:49 | 1:28:54 | |
and stuff like that. She just wanted to be normal. | 1:28:54 | 1:28:57 | |
# It's time to make that change | 1:28:57 | 1:28:59 | |
# People of the world today are failing | 1:28:59 | 1:29:01 | |
# It's all about ups and downs | 1:29:01 | 1:29:03 | |
# You're gonna take a fire and you won't be around | 1:29:03 | 1:29:06 | |
# All we need is a little bit of love | 1:29:06 | 1:29:08 | |
# Sent by God from Heaven up above. # | 1:29:08 | 1:29:10 | |
She would say to me, | 1:29:10 | 1:29:12 | |
"I want to get out of drugs and I want to be a mother to my daughter. | 1:29:12 | 1:29:17 | |
"I want to take care of my daughter." | 1:29:18 | 1:29:21 | |
Ready to go work out? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. | 1:30:25 | 1:30:30 | |
THEY LAUGH | 1:30:30 | 1:30:32 | |
Come on. | 1:30:34 | 1:30:35 | |
In the beginning, Bobby was very supportive with Whitney being clean. | 1:30:35 | 1:30:42 | |
But the third month that we were together, he had | 1:30:42 | 1:30:45 | |
said that, "This stuff that my wife is doing clean is disturbing to me." | 1:30:45 | 1:30:53 | |
She started saying no. | 1:30:54 | 1:30:56 | |
She started taking cars, she started taking houses. | 1:30:56 | 1:31:00 | |
Why are you looking at me like that? | 1:31:00 | 1:31:01 | |
THEY LAUGH Your father's a nut. | 1:31:01 | 1:31:04 | |
So I became the enemy, with Bobby... | 1:31:04 | 1:31:06 | |
Tell me why! | 1:31:10 | 1:31:11 | |
..because she said, "I always got to be the ballerina on the stage, | 1:31:11 | 1:31:15 | |
"singing, pulling in the money to take care of everybody else. | 1:31:15 | 1:31:22 | |
"And everybody else is working for me. So where do I find time for me?" | 1:31:22 | 1:31:28 | |
# Need you desperately | 1:31:28 | 1:31:32 | |
# Can you please tell me | 1:31:35 | 1:31:40 | |
-# Oh -Where do broken hearts go? | 1:31:40 | 1:31:45 | |
# Can they find their way home | 1:31:45 | 1:31:48 | |
# Back to the open arms of a love that's waiting there, Lord? | 1:31:49 | 1:31:56 | |
-# If somebody loves you -If they love you | 1:31:56 | 1:32:01 | |
# Won't they always love you? | 1:32:01 | 1:32:04 | |
-# I look in your eyes -I look in your eyes... # | 1:32:04 | 1:32:08 | |
At the end, like any other man, you know, | 1:32:08 | 1:32:13 | |
I guess he started dating, messing around with somebody else, | 1:32:13 | 1:32:20 | |
which was painful for Whitney. | 1:32:20 | 1:32:22 | |
He was my drug. I didn't do anything without him. | 1:32:26 | 1:32:29 | |
I wasn't going out by myself. It was with him. | 1:32:29 | 1:32:32 | |
We were partners. And that's what my "I" was - him, | 1:32:32 | 1:32:36 | |
he and I being together. And whatever we did, we did together. | 1:32:36 | 1:32:39 | |
No matter what, we did it together. | 1:32:39 | 1:32:41 | |
# No matter how I try | 1:32:43 | 1:32:47 | |
# You're always... # | 1:32:47 | 1:32:49 | |
Bobby getting into another relationship was real | 1:32:49 | 1:32:52 | |
painful for her. | 1:32:52 | 1:32:54 | |
So I think that's why she reverted back to drugs... | 1:32:57 | 1:33:01 | |
..because when you're using, you don't care about nothing. | 1:33:04 | 1:33:07 | |
Especially crack. | 1:33:07 | 1:33:09 | |
I have to say, for ten years or so | 1:33:12 | 1:33:16 | |
I started waiting for the phone call that we all finally got... | 1:33:16 | 1:33:20 | |
..that she had passed. | 1:33:22 | 1:33:25 | |
When I opened the door... | 1:33:31 | 1:33:33 | |
..it was dark. | 1:33:35 | 1:33:37 | |
But... | 1:33:37 | 1:33:39 | |
..she wasn't in the bed. | 1:33:41 | 1:33:43 | |
-SHE SIGHS -She wasn't in the bed. | 1:33:51 | 1:33:53 | |
SHE SIGHS | 1:33:58 | 1:34:00 | |
So... | 1:34:02 | 1:34:04 | |
..I walked into the bathroom. | 1:34:08 | 1:34:10 | |
My baby was in the tub. | 1:34:14 | 1:34:17 | |
-SIREN WAILS -Go, go, go, go, go! | 1:34:26 | 1:34:28 | |
This is Camera 4 there tonight with Whitney Houston's family, | 1:34:55 | 1:34:59 | |
including her mother and daughter. | 1:34:59 | 1:35:02 | |
VOICE FADES OUT | 1:35:02 | 1:35:04 | |
Oh, God! | 1:36:11 | 1:36:12 | |
How would I like to be remembered? | 1:36:12 | 1:36:15 | |
It probably doesn't even matter anyway, because they're | 1:36:15 | 1:36:18 | |
going to remember me how they want to remember me anyway! | 1:36:18 | 1:36:20 | |
They're going to write books, write this, write that, | 1:36:20 | 1:36:23 | |
and everybody's going to have their own idea. | 1:36:23 | 1:36:25 | |
I don't know, I just think I want people just to remember me | 1:36:25 | 1:36:28 | |
just being a real nice person! | 1:36:28 | 1:36:29 | |
You know? Somebody who cared, you know? | 1:36:31 | 1:36:33 | |
Somebody who tried to do, you know, everybody righteously, you know? | 1:36:33 | 1:36:38 | |
I don't want to go down for being a hag! | 1:36:38 | 1:36:41 | |
-You know? -I don't think you will. | 1:36:43 | 1:36:45 | |
-Don't worry about it. -Yeah. -OK, so that's it for me. -OK. -Finished. | 1:36:45 | 1:36:49 | |
Great. Nice talking to you. | 1:36:49 | 1:36:51 | |
# Whatever you want | 1:36:51 | 1:36:55 | |
# Whatever you need | 1:36:55 | 1:36:58 | |
# Oh, baby | 1:36:58 | 1:37:00 | |
# Anything you want done, baby | 1:37:00 | 1:37:03 | |
# I will do it naturally | 1:37:03 | 1:37:07 | |
-# Cos I'm every woman -Every woman | 1:37:07 | 1:37:13 | |
# It's all in me | 1:37:13 | 1:37:17 | |
# It's all in me | 1:37:20 | 1:37:30 | |
# Oh!... # | 1:37:30 | 1:37:31 | |
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. | 1:37:31 | 1:37:35 | |
-# Anything you want -Anything | 1:37:35 | 1:37:38 | |
# Anything you want, anything | 1:37:38 | 1:37:41 | |
# Oh, yeah! # | 1:37:41 | 1:37:43 | |
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