In the months leading up to her death in 2012, Whitney Houston reportedly made a “valiant endeavor” to quit using narcotics, smoking, and drinking, according to Clive Davis.
Davis, who is now 90, recalled spending time with Houston in the days before her death in an interview with Page Six.
On the night before the Grammy Awards in 2012, the singer was discovered unconscious in the bathtub of her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton.
Among those closest to her was Davis, a renowned music producer and A&R executive who transformed the music business.
I spent 48 hours with her before she passed away. I never considered that she might pass away two days later.
She was demonstrating her work while in rehab for me.
How she had quit smoking and removed the nicotine from her throat.
And she wanted to begin visiting the studio.
I never would have imagined that she would die away 48 hours prior to her passing and that her life would end in such a horrible, untimely manner.
During that time, Davis said, “She was making a heroic effort to give up narcotics and rehab herself.”
Houston was discovered unconscious in the bathtub of her room at the Beverly Hilton hotel.
Her drowning death, which occurred as a consequence of a heart attack, was classified as an accident.
A coroner determined that the presence of cocaine in her system contributed to her death.
The singer struggled with her sexuality while going through a turbulent marriage to Bobby Brown and battled drug and alcohol addiction for years.
I Wanna Dance With Somebody, a new biography that debuted this weekend to mixed reviews, revisits her life.
The movie’s co-producer was Davis.
According to him, it “answers all the questions” about Houston, a “once in a lifetime vocalist,” that fans could still have.
“Whether it was her sexuality, how she responded to any suggestion that she wasn’t singing black enough, the effect of drugs, or recording with me,” she said.
Houston’s friendship with Robyn Crawford is only one of the subjects the movie touches on.
They allegedly had an affair while Houston was a teenager, according to the movie. The movie dispels long-held allegations that their romance continued during Houston’s marriage to Bobby Brown and for years after that, claiming that it was plutonic.
She had an affair with Robyn as a teenager, and the movie makes it quite apparent that she decided on her own that this was not for her.
“I want a house,” she continued. I want to get married. I want to have kids. I don’t want to fight my parents to the end. My faith forbids it. You should be my closest buddy. Davis elucidated.
Those were the conditions. In fact, it includes a list of guys she had relationships with far before Bobby.
She was straight and obviously attracted to guys. It wasn’t a problem in her marriage in her adult life. She didn’t feel sexually irritated with Bobby. In a relationship that was damaging to both parties, she was extremely attracted—perhaps even too attracted—but she wasn’t frustrated.
Crawford has previously discussed how the couple was intimately linked but had to call it quits due to Whitney’s burgeoning popularity.
In a separate interview with Vanity Fair, Davis said that he was disappointed with earlier documentaries and movies on the artist and wanted to assist create the biography as a result.
The movie has a great score and is brave and honest. It really honors Whitney as the once-in-a-lifetime talent she was, he added.
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