Almost a year after the late Whitney Houston shocking passing her mother Cissy Houston often asks herself: "Could I have saved her somehow?" We did not know that Cissy Houston was into writing basically a tell all about her daughter drug habit and death. This is bit of a shocker as well.
According to People:
"In a revealing new memoir, Remembering
Whitney (Harper Collins), Cissy, 79, writes candidly about her
daughter's severe drug problems and the downward spiral that led to her death by drowning in
a hotel bathtub with traces of cocaine still in her system.
"She started partying and she didn't really know how to
stop," says Cissy. "I used to wonder what she was doing at night,
where she was." But when she tried to contact her, Whitney often didn't return her call.
"Whitney hid from me," says Cissy. And when she did see her, she was often afraid to confront her daughter. Shocked at her skeletal appearance at the Michael Jackson tribute concert in 2001, she never expressed concern.
"What was the point?" she asks. "I didn't want her to run completely away from me."
She doesn't believe former husband Bobby Brown was the cause. Cissy, 79, had been called by her son Gary in early 2005 warning her: 'Ma, I think Nippy [the family's pet name] is really in trouble.' He travelled everywhere with the singer.
"I blame him for the way he treated
her," she says, "but I don't blame him for her drug problems."
Still, she adds: "He was no help to her at all."
Cissy also writes for the first time about her daughter's relationship with former assistant Robyn Crawford, who became her creative director.
"I just didn’t want her with my daughter," she says. "I know nothing about a romantic relationship. That's what everybody said but they didn't know either."
She admits, Crawford "cared for her" and reveals for the first time that she was the first one to come tell her Whitney had a drug problem.
Cissy is still tormented by her daughter's sudden death. "I'm angry she died alone, in those conditions," she says. "I'm still mad about that."
Still, she hopes her book will remind people "what a good person she was. I want people to know the truth about her, how she really was."
Cissy also writes for the first time about her daughter's relationship with former assistant Robyn Crawford, who became her creative director.
"I just didn’t want her with my daughter," she says. "I know nothing about a romantic relationship. That's what everybody said but they didn't know either."
She admits, Crawford "cared for her" and reveals for the first time that she was the first one to come tell her Whitney had a drug problem.
Cissy is still tormented by her daughter's sudden death. "I'm angry she died alone, in those conditions," she says. "I'm still mad about that."
Still, she hopes her book will remind people "what a good person she was. I want people to know the truth about her, how she really was."
"In an interview with Oprah Winfrey to be broadcast on Monday, Cissy, a singer in the 60s and 70s, reveals how Gary told her in a phone call of her daughter's death at the Los Angeles hotel on February 11 last year. She said:
'I was getting annoyed because he wasn't telling me anything. He was screaming. He was saying, Nippy, Nippy. I said, "what's wrong with her?' He said, 'Mommy,' I said, 'Is she dead?' He said, 'Yeah, Mommy, she's dead.' And I don't remember too much else after that.'
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