Whitney Houston may have died of drink and prescription drugs, not drowning

On Friday night, less than 24 hours before Houston died, her daughter Bobbi
Kristina, 18, reportedly fell asleep in a bath in another room on the same
floor at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, and security had to be
contacted to come and unlock the door.

Miss Brown has been hospitalised twice for “stress and anxiety”
since her mother’s death.

It also emerged that it was the singer’s aunt Mary Jones who found her in room
434 the night before the Grammy Awards.

Jones had been laying out a dress for Houston to wear to a party that night.
She left the suite for half an hour and returned to discover the singer
still in the bathroom.

Los Angeles assistant chief coroner Ed Winter said it could take six to eight
weeks for toxicology reports to determine exactly how the singer died.

He said said prescription bottles were found in the hotel room but they were
all “pretty normal” prescriptions. He added: “I have more
prescriptions than what was found in her room. I know there were reports of,
did she drown or was it an overdose, but I will not be commenting on that.”

Houston’s brother-in-law Billy Watson vehemently denied that the singer would
have had any intention of committing suicide.

He said: “Oh, no, this is accidental. She wouldn’t have left her daughter
like that. She wouldn’t have done that to her daughter.”

Police are questioning the singer’s friends and relatives and staff to
investigate her erratic behaviour in the days and weeks before she died,
which included heavy drinking on the two nights before her death.

She was also known to have been at a Hollywood nightclub on Feb 2 where she
drank cognac and champagne, and was described as a “total wreck.”

Houston was one of the biggest selling music stars of the 1980s and 1990s, but
her career collapsed amid use of crack cocaine and other drugs, spells in
rehab, and a tumultuous 15-year marriage to the singer Bobby Brown.

At the Grammy Awards on Sunday night stars paid tribute to Houston, bowing
their heads in a prayer for a “fallen sister.”

Singer Jennifer Hudson performed an emotional tribute, singing a rendition of
the late star’s hit “I Will Always Love You,” changing the words
to “Whitney we will always love you.” Stevie Wonder told the
audience: “To Whitney up in heaven, we all love you.”

Some of the pills found in Houston’s room were from prescriptions filled at
the same pharmacy used by Michael Jackson.

In 2007 the Mickey Fine pharmacy in Beverly Hills sued Jackson, accusing him
of owing $100,000 in unpaid bills for drugs including the painkiller Demerol.

As well as Xanax police also found amoxicillin, for sore throats, and Midol,
for menstrual cramps, in Houston’s room.

The singer’s mother Cissy Houston is arranging to take possession of her
remains and a memorial service may be held this weekend. Houston’s body was
being flown to New Jersey on the east coast by her family. Tyler Perry, the
Hollywood movie mogul offered a private plane. A funeral is expected to be
held there at the weekend.

The Rev Jesse Jackson, a close friend of the Houston family, said: “The mother
is distraught. She is a woman of strong faith and she has wrestled with her
daughter for a long time. She was under the impression that Whitney was
coming out of it. She is completely stunned.”

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