A Whitney Houston Update
We still don’t have a ton of information about the death of Whitney Houston, but we do have a few more facts than we did last night. Ready?
- The night before she died, Whitney was spotted partying at her hotel with friends. TMZ talked to some of the hotel staff, who said that Whitney and her friends were drinking and being especially rowdy.
- Whitney’s mother, Cissy Houston, and her cousin, Dionne Warwick, talked to Whitney on the phone about half an hour before she died. They said that nothing seemed unusual with her at all.
- Police were called to Whitney’s hotel room and they arrived shortly afterwards. They tried CPR, but Whitney was pronounced dead at 3:55 PM.
- Whitney’s body was found in the bathtub of her hotel room by someone in her group, but her body was removed before the EMTs got there. So far, police don’t think that foul play was involved, and they found prescription pill bottles in the room. At this point, possible causes of death are drowning and overdose.
And, of course, several celebrities have already weighed in on this sad topic. There are many, many statements, but I’ll just show you the ones that made me cry the hardest:
- Bobby Brown performed a concert with New Edition last night. He said “First of all, I want to tell you that I love you all. Second, I would like to say, ‘I love you, Whitney.’ The hardest thing for me to do is to come on this stage.”
- Gladys Knight said “She was a star from above. Her star may not have been shining for long, but when it did, boy did it shine.”
- Bette Midler tweeted “Little by little these deaths kill the best part of each of us, the awe and joy we feel when we hear a gift that can only come from God.”
So that’s it, that’s all we know right now and all I have the heart to tell you. Is anyone else taking this kind of hard? Did anyone actually see this coming? Not in a “crack is whack, LOL” way, but in a “Whitney Houston isn’t going to be around much longer” way. I’d be interested in hearing about it. And, of course, we’ll be keeping you guys updated when more details are released.
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