Tue, 09 Aug 22 14:11:06 +0000

Whitney Houston spent the last tragic moment "enjoying food and singing for himself"

The talent of Whitney Houston at the top of the game was unmatched.

The How Will I Know singer, who should have turned 59 today, amassed a staggering £76 million, but by the time she died in 2012her fortune battled addiction after years went away.

In 2009, Whitney admitted that her drug use escalated after her marriage to Bobby Brown and her 1992 hit film The Bodyguard, citing her I confided in my demons.

"After my bodyguard, I started getting heavy. Cocaine, marijuana," she told chat show host Oprah Winfrey. makes too much money to smoke crack. I admitted that I was sitting in

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"You live in the same house and I'm sitting next to you," she said, "not saying anything for a week, just sitting and watching TV."

"I didn't think about singing anymore. I completely forgot about that life. By then I had so much money."

64} In March 2004, when Whitney left rehab after just five days, an unsuccessful attempt to clean up was made. She tried again the following year.

Whitney told Oprah in 2010 that she was finally free from drugs. However, she pulled out of a series of planned gigs in the UK and US that year, citing her ill health, and she returned to rehab in 2011.

She was scheduled to make a comeback at the Grammy Awards in February 2012.

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But just days before the ceremony She reportedly looked "disheveled" and "erratic" and was spotted wandering aimlessly in Beverly. .

Her last public appearance was on February 9, when Kelly took the stage with Price to sing "Jesus Loves Her Me". It was when

On the morning of July 11, she had breakfast at the hotel with her daughter Bobby. She even ordered food and took some Xanax before a Clive Davis party she was scheduled to perform that night.

"She was frequently taking anti-anxiety medications to help her sleep after heavy partying at night," a source told Radar Online. She also took them before big performances to relieve tension."

Whitney's cousin Dionne Warwick was one of the last people Whitney spoke to (

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Later, Whitney apparently received a call from her cousin, singer Dionne Warwick, about seating arrangements. described it as "cheerful and bright".

She is said to have told her assistantthat she had a sore throat and was about to take a bath before the pre-Grammys bash.

Next In 2016, the troubled star reportedly even ordered room service and ate a hamburger and fries after taking a bath. She took a turkey sandwich and some jalapeno peppers, along with a boat of olive oil gravy, to the bathroom. One of the security guards, who said he heard her singing in the house, called out, but got no answer, knocked unresponsive, and opened the door to find Whitney lying face down in the bathtub.

On the fourth floor of the Beverly Hills Hotel where Whitney Houston died

Whitney was just 48 when she died

Died at the scene.

Toxicology reports found that Whitney had a mixture of cocaine, cannabis, Xanax, Benadryl and Frexeril in her body.

According to Bodyguard Star's autopsy report, she had very advanced heart disease and one artery was 60% blocked. The cause of death was attributed to heart disease and accidental drowning due to cocaine use.