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RPB wrote:

rwg3 wrote:I agree that she shouldn't have done the drugs. Where I am willing to cut her a bit of a break is based on the environment she lived and worked in. The celebrity world has a nasty habit (no pun intended) of chewing up and spitting out it's participants at a breakneck pace. Having spent some time working with celebrities, the fawning servitude (albeit mostly false) that overwhelms them once they start to gain fame and money definately contributes to an unreal estimation of their abilites to overcome any challenge. It is sickening to see fans and sycophants reinforcing the sense of power that celebs have. These celebs tend to lose perspective and are too often presented with all kinds of options to do stupid things while their "support" tells them they can do no wrong.
She shouldn't have done the drugs, but I can see how it came to be.

Much like politicians ... they lose touch

texasmusic wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:

texasmusic wrote:I never cared to follow what Houston was doing while she was alive and i dont care more now that she isnt. Just turning off the news for another week or so as the circus will be in full force.

When my daughter was a kid, she made us watch a movie Whitney was in but I think Keven Costner was the reason my daughter wanted to watch it. I bet we watched that dumb movie 50 times... I have the VHS tape...LOL.

Is it bad that I am going to watch the season premier of Walking Dead tonight instead of the grammy's...???

Gearing up to watch TWD here too. Never watched grammies probably never will.

texasmusic wrote:I never cared to follow what Houston was doing while she was alive and i dont care more now that she isnt. Just turning off the news for another week or so as the circus will be in full force.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:Watching Fox news and they just said that a "security hold" was put on the autopsy results. Hmmm... now what? So did she drown in the tub or was she just dead in the tub? I guess we can all safely assume it is somehow drug related, but I wonder why they can't tell us the cause of death?

It is so that nobody can "smear" her character (something she did well enough without any help from anybody else) during Grammy Night, at which she was supposed to perform.....or something like that. We can't have nasty facts out there while we're trying to sing someone's praises now, can we?

But, that sarcasm aside, I actually am sad for her and her family. Her 18 year old daughter was hauled away from the same hotel in an ambulance today, apparently suffering from anxiety attacks, exhaustion, and grief. Whatever negative we can say about Whitney Houston, she was a real person, and she is dead, most likely as the result of an addiction that finally beat her. I deal with addicts every week in a ministry in which I'm involved. She could be any one of several friends of mine (who are now thankfully in recovery). There was a tiime when she could have been me.