Online Sun
By VICTORIA NEWTON
Showbiz Editor

SUPERSTAR Whitney Houston has spiralled into a world of squalor and degradation on deadly crack — as the shocking pictures in today's Sun newspaper reveal.

It shows the disgusting mess in the singer’s bathroom after a drug binge.
Drug paraphernalia including a crack-smoking pipe, rolling papers, cocaine-caked spoons and cigarette ends are strewn across the surface tops.

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I feel bad for Whitney....I hope that she gets some help soon. She has a lovely daughter to worry about and also, I am glad that Bobby isnt bringing her down like everyone was assuming...She really just has a serious problem and needs help.

I have seen pictures like this one and it just makes you want to cry. Crack is the devil!! Hard to get off of it. I've been 4 months now lots of days are tough but you have to really want to stay clean. I read an article about her that said she can't even remember words to songs that she made famous. SO SAD.

It is very sad about Whitney...and I know some one who has met her and all of this is true..she really looks bad :( I heard she has even lost her voice range though all this...
Yoosgirl, hang on thru those tough days and keep on getting better girl! God Bless!

OK I have to say this, its the SUN a tabloid, but I dont believe it, but if it is true that is very sad!

Very sad :(

That Crack demon is a hellava beast. It's a known fact that the disease is progressive. So that means every time and person gets clean and go back using will end up twice as bad as before. I hope she will come to grips with this disease before it takes her life.

addiction certainly doesnt care whether you are rich or poor, or what colour, religion, or where in the world you live, there are no boundaries with addiction.

this tabloid also chatized her slightly for 'using sex toys to satify herself'. not sure what that has to do with anything. I agree she is apearing thin and frail, but I wonder what Bobby's sister did with the money she must have received for this interview ;) addiction to the hard stuff can ruin lives- to anyone of any race or socio-economic status.

however it seems that by most outward appearances her and Bobby are still happy together, that's terrific news~

Well not to carry on a subject longer than it ought to be carried on but the sex toy thing reminded me that many crack addicts become hypersexual. Its a result of the addiction to crack though not all crack addicts get that. They either become hypersexual or quite an extreme of the opposite.

http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/03/3004.cfm more about whitney

Sorry to say I just can't believe it cuz its tabloid trash to me, but like I said if there is actual proof and not fake pics then I might be able to!

I dont pay any attention to the tabloids either but I did see her sister in law interviewed on TV two nights ago and I'm guessing a lot of it is true. Whitney has been in and out of rehabs for years and it isnt really new news, just how bad it has become is though.
Hopefully in a year from now she will be recording an album to help raise funds for treatment centers in a year from now after she cleans up. It would be such a horrible shame if she doesnt get cleaned up now. She needs a lot of professional help.
She isnt the only star in this situation right now. There are many that end up losing everything they earned in exchange for drugs or booze.

Yes I am aware I never believe tabloid stuff and stuff on tv for one reason ya can't always believe what you hear until ya see it in person.

You can't believe everything that the tabloids print in the newpaper. I am praying for Whitney and her entire family. I pray that this is not true. Be Blessed!!

I wouldn't give a plug nickle for a tabloid paper, but I'd give just about anything to get her (Whitney) cleaned up. I respect her too much as a person to care about the pics. I have never met her or heard her in concert, but I know I can't stand to see her struggle. Nobody should waste away like this. I know I can personally do nothing physically, but I am a pitbull on my knees. I realy don't mind making the devil mad and hell nervous, I can pray, but she must walk it out.

i use to look up to my big brother growing up. He had it all, looks, thin, athletic build, great at mechanics, girls calling. he had a running buddy that was basically his twin. From behind you could not tell the two apart, The friend graduated and went into the Navy, my brother went harder into drugs and alcohol. I watched him deteriorate, but I didn't know how badly until the friend came home from boot. Navy boot is nothing like army or marine, but the difference between the two now was aweing. it was the real push in my life that drugs were not for me and how devistating they could be. Then I asw my class mates looking rough early in life. I am so thankful It wasn't me.

I know how her family feels. I've seen too much of it, it makes me sick. I almost wish they would put Whitney in a before/after pic for crack make over. Something to wake people up, but I still feel bad for her.

I wish I could say this is just a tabloid story, but I'm afraid it's not.

While I don't think Bobby Brown has been good for her, one cannot blame him or anyone else for her addiction.

As my father used to always say, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink".

Obviously, Whitney had an addictive personality that helped throw her into this spiral to Hell.

I do feel that she will never get completely off of this horrid drug as long as they stay together. Mr. Brown has quite the addictive personality himself, which makes them no good for one another.

I love Whitney, her voice, even her acting. When I saw how horrible she looked the last time I saw her, I broke down in tears.

God help her.

Sorry to say I just can't believe it cuz its tabloid trash to me, but like I said if there is actual proof and not fake pics then I might be able to!


Whether the pics are fake or not isn't the point here.

I hate to be the one to throw cold water on you, but this news is not NEW. The last time I saw her on television, she looked like death warmed over. Bones with a little skin on them. No meat, no fat at all.

Cocaine is ruining her life, and I don't see her getting off of it and well, as long as she stays with Bobby. I'm not saying he's a bad man or that it's all his fault she's addicted to this hellacious drug...but I do know that unless she gets away from the drug itself, from the source of the drug, from people who will DO this drug WITH her, she hasn't an ice cube's chance in Hell of a lasting recovery.

I, myself, have an addictive personality. My drug of choice was cigarettes. I smoked for 30 years, and didn't break away from this nasty habit until I was up to almost 3 packs a day, and got out of a relationship with another smoker. I could NEVER have stopped with him smoking around me. As a matter of fact, when I met this man, who later became my husband, I had been off of them for 10 full years. The monkey is never off of your back, with him smoking around me day and night, I was soon back puffing away.

If she doesn't get away from her living situation, and out of this relationship, she'll be dead...and very soon. What a tragedy that would be, what a loss to this world of such a talented singer.

Wow ! I know that I was listening to the radio the other day. Whitney was singing a song at the winter olympics and sounded horrid. The radio station host made some comments on whitney, not bad, but she took calls from listeners. I just pray that Whitney gets it together and soon.

She's not alone and fame and loads of money have brought many people to their knees or worse.

Rock stars who self-destructed (http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=50&id=1698882001)

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Just a few famous drug and booze overdoses causing death of famous people, there are many more:

Len Bias basketball player (University of Maryland) cocaine overdose
Anissa Jones child actor drug overdose
Darby Crash punk-rock singer (The Germs) suicide by heroin overdose
Sid Vicious punk-rock bass guitarist (Sex Pistols) heroin overdose
Andrew Wood grunge rock singer (Mother Love Bone) heroin overdose
Nick Drake folk guitarist/singer antidepressant overdose
Gram Parsons folk and country-rock singer (The Byrds) drug overdose
Hillel Slovak rock guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) heroin overdose
Joey Stefano porn star drug overdose
Jean-Michel Basquiat Artist heroin overdose
Jimi Hendrix rock guitarist/singer sleeping pill overdose
Brian Jones rock guitarist (The Rolling Stones) drug-related drowning,
Janis Joplin rock/soul singer (Big Brother & the Holding Company) heroin overdose
Jim Morrison rock singer (The Doors) Heart attack, possibly due to drug overdose
Tim Buckley folk singer drug overdose
Shannon Hoon rock singer (Blind Melon) drug overdose
DJ Screw musician overdose of codeine
Hank Williams country musician accidental overdose of morphine and alcohol
Andy Gibb singer heart failure due to cocaine abuse
Branwell Brontë painter suspected alcohol poisoning or drug overdose
John Bonham rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) alcohol poisoning
Brian Epstein businessman, manager of The Beatles overdose
Keith Moon rock drummer (The Who) overdose
Rob Pilatus Milli Vanilli overdose
John Belushi actor and comedian overdose of cocaine and heroin
Chris Farley comic actor accidental cocaine and heroin overdose
Bon Scott hard-rock singer (AC/DC) suffocation on his own vomit after drinking
Marco Pantani cyclist cerebral oedema heart failure/acute cocaine poisoning
Dana Plato actress prescription drug overdose
Joe Orton playwright bludgeoning w/ hammer by jealous, drug-addicted room-mate
Layne Staley heavy metal/grunge singer (Alice in Chains) cocaine and heroin overdose
Ol' Dirty Bastard rapper (Wu Tang Clan) accidental overdose of cocaine and painkillers
GG Allin punk rock singer heroin overdose
Marilyn Monroe actress, sex symbol barbiturate overdose, probably intentional
Sonny Liston heavyweight boxer drug overdose
Marie Prevost actress alcoholism, malnutrition
Johnny Thunders guitarist/singer (New York Dolls)-methadone and alcohol poisoning
Dylan Thomas poet alcohol poisoning
Dennis Wilson rock & roll musician (The Beach Boys) drowning due to intoxication

Beyonce Knowles desperate to help Whitney Houston beat crack
Friday April 7th, 2006

Beyonce Knowles is desperate to help Whitney Houston beat her addiction to crack cocaine. She’s written a letter to Whitney offering support.

read whole article (http://fametastic.co.uk/archive/20060407/905/beyonce-knowles-desperate-to-help-whitney-houston-beat-crack/)

It's such a loss. I've looked at various pictures of her on the Internet over the past few years and although we all know that the media can over-emphasize, I don't think that is the case here. Do you remember how beautiful her rendition of the Star Spangled Banner was at the Super Bowl (don't remember the year) was? It was the best I've EVER heard. So sad. I hope she can clean up -- but unless she has some sort of loving confrontation I don't know if it's possible. :(

You can believe it when you see her in person. She frequents the Short hills mall here in NJ when she visits family and friends in NJ and we have seen her. She looks nasty. She is a crack head. I am amazed that they haven't taken her daughter from her. She doesn't even smile when people talk to her.
I saw her in Saks when I was in the Mall and she looks like shit, so yeah, the tabloids are correct. She's a crack head. She needs help and I hope she gets it before it's too late.

Whether the pics are fake or not isn't the point here.

I hate to be the one to throw cold water on you, but this news is not NEW. The last time I saw her on television, she looked like death warmed over. Bones with a little skin on them. No meat, no fat at all.

Cocaine is ruining her life, and I don't see her getting off of it and well, as long as she stays with Bobby. I'm not saying he's a bad man or that it's all his fault she's addicted to this hellacious drug...but I do know that unless she gets away from the drug itself, from the source of the drug, from people who will DO this drug WITH her, she hasn't an ice cube's chance in Hell of a lasting recovery.

I, myself, have an addictive personality. My drug of choice was cigarettes. I smoked for 30 years, and didn't break away from this nasty habit until I was up to almost 3 packs a day, and got out of a relationship with another smoker. I could NEVER have stopped with him smoking around me. As a matter of fact, when I met this man, who later became my husband, I had been off of them for 10 full years. The monkey is never off of your back, with him smoking around me day and night, I was soon back puffing away.

If she doesn't get away from her living situation, and out of this relationship, she'll be dead...and very soon. What a tragedy that would be, what a loss to this world of such a talented singer.

In response to this, this is news to me, so the cold water throwing is not needed, I do not pay attention to tabloids nor do I watch alot of TV! To me I do not believe things till I see it with my eyes! Yet again this thread is not about fake pics, etc! So please back to topic!

I hope that she can get some help thats a sad thing sooooooooooo much talent

in my opinion most of actor/actress aRE ADDICTED to something. they have frustration due to competition