Came to a heartbreaking end. Fans were always pulling for whitney, and in early 2012, it looked like she was making a comeback new man, new music and a new movie. The film was a remake of sparkle, and it marked a return to her roots, home to the church, back to the power and promise of gospel. Sparkle, you can have a gift. Its how you use it. Turner sparkle is a cult classic, especially in the africanamerican community. Be on the mark. Can i get an amen . Amen amen amen ame houston being born and raised in the gospel community, it was not new to me to sing gospel or to sing with a choir. Why should shadows shadows come . It is very natural to me in some ways, more natural than Popular Music because its where im rooted. Its where my foundation is. So it wasnt a new adventure. It was just coming back home. [ cheers and applause ] i remember sparkle, and i remember the great press that came around sparkle. Whitney looked great, and they were showing clips, and everyone was saying, oh, my gosh, shes back. Turner she was healthy and happy. Was she . We dont know. She looked like she was trying. She looked like she was winning the battle at that point. Lemon so everyone thought that this sparkle movie was going to be great and that it was going to be whitneys comeback and finally [exhales sharply] right . She could exhale. And then came the grammys. Hello. Im a. J. Hammer in new york, and this is a Special Edition of Showbiz Tonight showbiz the grammys. Whitney was there for grammy week. She had planned on making a comeback in the music business, but even before she boarded the plane to los angeles, she had reservations. Mun and people are calling it a comeback. Is that putting kind of pressure on you . Are you feeling nervous about the whole thing . Its not a comeback for me. Ive been here. Ive just been here. I just took a break. Ill be honest and say i didnt celebrate the comeback as maybe a lot of people did. I felt like, its too soon. I felt like, you know what . Whitney is not ready yet. Halperin whitney was erratic in the hotel, to say the least. She was found hanging out. Several media people spotted her at the bar, getting hammered. Cooper houston was seen skipping around a ballroom and doing handstands near the hotel pool. Whitney was partying. She was happy. She was sober, maybe a little tipsy because she had some champagne. There were reports of her having drugs delivered to her in the hotel. And then, yeah, she went into a gift shop. She saw a tabloid with a headline about her. She went ballistic. Things are bad, and theyre worse than they appeared. All i knew is, whatever is going on, its far worse than theyre letting us know. Halperin paramedics arrived. There was a lot of panic. They administered cpr. They were unable to resuscitate her. She was gone. Every once in a while you have to report something that you thought would be the worst thing that could happen and it was going to happen and now it has. Singer Whitney Houston, one of the greatest voices of our generation cnn has gotten confirmation from a representative has died. Moret you got the feeling that her body simply gave out. The real sadness is that she died alone and she died in pain not physical, perhaps, but emotional, clearly. Levy circumstances were. Bizarre and confusing. We are now getting some of these new details about the final days and the death of pop superstar Whitney Houston. We dont know, really, for sure exactly what killed her. She was found facedown in the bathtub facedown, very strange. Baldwin the singer was found facedown and was under water for as long as an hour. The most Surprising New information was this the water in the Hotel Bathtub where houston drowned was very, very hot. Im talking in excess of 93 degrees. 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Its almost like the postcards or stamps on your life, when you heard certain whitney songs, and you remember exactly where you were and exactly what you were doing. I remember the first time i heard the greatest love of all. The greatest love turner i was a young girl, and i this voice, and it was just absolutely so beautiful. To achieve it was a hallmark of pop in the 80s, and it was a Hallmark Of Whitney at the start. You couldnt turn on any Radio Station and get away from it, and at a certain point for me, it was, i want to dance with somebody you just say, like, i give up. This is pretty great. Oh, i want to dance with somebody this person can sing. I want to feel the heat with somebody early on, both the music and the image are immaculate. You know, theres a lot of luxury, not just to the image, but to the sound of that music, a lot of aspiration, despite the fact that she might say, from time to time, im a jersey girl. Halperin whitney grew up in new jersey, and she came from a family that was deeply embedded in show business. I think out of anyone, Whitney Houston definitely has a pedigree. You look at her mother, cissy. You look at her cousin, dionne warwick, both classic, iconic voices. Halperin her mother sang in the church. Her cousin sang in the church, and Young Whitney was put in the church choir. Turner whitney was grounded in the Church Family and in the church home, and so thats thats. Who she was and where she came from. So when she was 11, she got up and sang a solo, just a little talk with jesus, and people were just in awe. Hell send a light down from heaven if you let it shine i know that what i have has been godgiven, and i know its a blessing. Has your mother told you how proud she is of you . Oh, every day. When i said i wanted to be a singer and be in the business, she said, do you really . I said, yeah, i think so. She said, okay, this is it. It almost seems predestined that Whitney Houston is to go into the music business, to become a singer, and to become a star. Woman Whitney Houston, 21yearold daughter of singer Cissy Houston and cousin of dionne warwick, is tuning up her club act at sweetwaters in new york city. Halperin she used to perform at the sweetwater club, and thats when clive davis first really got his initiation into whitneys voice. Moret clive davis was a brilliant record man. He was mr. Music. If he signed you and he signed whitney you were going to be big. You look for a great interpreter of song, and its not easy to come by. Theres only one of a generation. You hear all of these stories about how he really, really groomed her and prepared her for the industry and worked really closely because he saw he saw the potential. Clive davis signs her and then molds her into this, you know, person, and she did the rest with her talent. [ applause ] velezmitchell Whitney Made Her Television Debut on the merv griffin show. Halperin merv griffin was the most influential person in television back in the day, with his talk show. He was like the oprah winfrey, and when Young Whitney went on his show and sang the song home, it just made waves. My world has gone and changed its face but i know i know where im going what i remember very vividly is the album cover where she has the white oneshoulder gown on and her hair is slicked back, and i remember that because she looked so glamorous. Whitney houstons first album was Whitney Houston, selftitled, huge smash hit, millions and millions of copies, wins a grammy. Her second album, two years later, just called, whitney. By then she just needed one name, whitney. That tells you how big she was. Everybody loved whitney when she came out. Do you remember the album cover . It was sex appeal but girl next door, appealing to black, white, and everyone in between, and the world loved her. Woman arriving straight from her smashing Debut Concert at Carnegie Hall to a party at new york citys palladium, celebrating her success. Hammer so whitney is now on this wild ride, and, of course, as she became more and more famous, people became more and more interested in her personal life, particularly her relationship with robyn crawford. Halperin before whitney hit it big, she met robyn crawford, who had a very big impact in her life. Robyn crawford became her personal assistant, and they were inseparable. There were constant rumors, perhaps, of them having an affair. We saw the allegations on the cover of every Tabloid Magazine for a very long time. Im not gay, and im not lesbian. Im a mother. Im a wife. Im a daughter. Lesbian and gay, i am not two titles i cant claim. Im sorry. I just cant, you know . Who knows . But guess what who really cares . I dont really care if Whitney Houston was gay, straight, bisexual, whatever. I just cared that she could sing her ass off. Moret you know, if you look at her trajectory, you can chart her fall directly to her meeting and falling in love with bobby brown. There was a toxic mix into which mr. Brown was not helpful. jim heres some Straight Talk for yause your loved ones to save money on wireless you could add your favorite son you could add your ex add grandma, but dont tell her about the unlimited talk part vo more lines mean more savings, with Straight Talk. Get unlimited data, talk and text for 25 dollars a line. psst psst ahhh with flonase, allergies dont have to be scary. Spray Flonase Sensimist daily for nondrowsy long lasting relief in a scent free, gentle mist. Flonase all good. Also, try our Allergy Headache and nighttime pills. upbeat music woah. Constant Contact delivers the Marketing Tools your Small Business needs to keep up, excel, and grow. Constant contact. 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Whitney houston [ cheers and applause ] hammer Whitney Houston was the belle of the annual ball, and at times, she seemed almost overcome with her good fortune. I dont know what to say. Thank you. I love you. Thank you. The 80s undeniably belonged to Whitney Houston, so imagine her shock when she gets booed at the 1989 soul train awards. The nominees for Best R B Urban Contemporary Single By A Female are. Ohhhhh, oh, ohohoh. Where do broken hearts go, Whitney Houston. Velezmitchell at the 1989 soul train awards, Whitney Houston was booed because some critics were saying she didnt sound black enough. She had given away her roots. Its horrible, and its kind of funny. You go, are they booing me . [ chuckles ] and they say, yeah. You go, oh, how nice. You know, youre not black enough for them. You know . I dont know. Youre not r b enough. Youre very pop. The white audience have taken you away from them. Whalum to be rejected by ones family is the ultimate rejection, and you could say that black people, in a way, are her family, and so when they didnt receive her and accept her gift as belonging to this community, we all sensed the profound hurt that whitney dealt with. That wasnt the only thing that happened to whitney at that awards show. Thats where she met bobby brown. Its the 1989 soul train awards, and bobby brown is very charismatic, and Whitney Houston notices that, and she happens to be sitting, at one point, behind him and sort of flirts with him by punching him in the back of the head, you know, tapping him, and he looks at her like, you better not do that again. Now, she said that she was intrigued by that, a man who wasnt impressed with her, a man who didnt roll over because she was the Whitney Houston. Moret you know, if you look at her trajectory, you can chart her fall directly to her meeting and falling in love with bobby brown. She loved him. She actually loved him. What she liked about him was he was just bobby. He wasnt pretentious. She could just relax and just be herself. She didnt have to be a perfect, you know, beautiful queen, princess whitney with him. Bobby brown was the bad boy. Their princess was being tarnished. Lemon i did not like bobby brown. I liked his music, but i did not want him for my whitney. When bobby came on the scene, i can tell you categorically that we in the band. Were incredulous. For us, we saw him as a distraction. She definitely wanted to squash the rumors that she was a lesbian, and by getting married, that would silence the people who wanted to out her. I had the most beautiful wedding that i had ever been to, and i was married. [ chuckles ] i was in it. And it was mine. And it was mine 1992 was just a huge year for Whitney Houston because its not only the year that she and bobby brown got married, 92 is also when the bodyguard came out. The bodyguard was probably the height of her career, especially with I Will Always Love You. And I Will Always Love You and the scene in the end, where they run to each other and the airplane is going, its like, you know, the its like casablanca, and you come on. You have to cry on that movie. I remember the first day of shooting, i was so nervous. I was so nervous, you know . And i have to tell you because kevin was the best. It was groundbreaking in the sense that you had an africanamerican woman and white man. Levy why is I Will Always Love You a numberone song for 14 weeks in a row . Because its on the soundtrack of a movie about a failed romance between a white guy and a black woman at a time of Racial Division in the united states, at a time when we cant all just get along. I hope. Whalum when i tell people, i played the sax solo on that song what song . I will always love you and they just take a deep breath, you know . And so, yeah, now it is a calling card, and i will say this whitney would always tease us. She would say, okay, use my name if itll help, but it aint going to always help. She rose to superstardom, and her music was heard in every corner of this world. Velezmitchell i think there was a lot of pressure to be this icon and this diva and this super human, and. She was just a human. Moret she was at her peak, and she was about to jump off of a precipice, and nobody knew it. I remember hearing the drug rumors, and i remember, like everybody else, i didnt want them to be true. Long before bobby brown arrived, whitney had dabbled with drugs. Her own brother, the story goes, introduced her to drugs. Whitney houstons Brother Michael admitted on oprah that he was the one who introduced Whitney Houston, his sister, to cocaine back in the 80s. Winfrey did you introduce her to drugs . I would say. Yeah. Its painful. You know . I feel responsible for what i let it go so far, and it just got out of hand. Hammer whitney and bobby getting together wasnt entirely good because they partied together, and the speculation was that they became really codependent. I dont sit here in judgment of bobby brown, saying, you did this to Whitney Houston. Whitney did to herself what she did, but i think the two of them together were combustible in a very harmful way to both of them. Turner there was a lot of whispering whats wrong with whitney . People around her said she was a ticking time bomb. sfx ping please dont go please dont go. Please dont go please dont go dont goooooo dont go away please dont go that first time you take a step back. I made that. With your very own online store. I sold that. And you can manage it all in one place. I built this. And it was easy, with a partner that puts you first. Godaddy. The best advice i ever got was to invest with vanguard for my retirement. The second best . 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She not only had a blockbuster movie, grossing more than 531 million worldwide, the films soundtrack won two grammys, and the lead single, I Will Always Love You, became the bestselling song by a woman in music history, but whitney still had one driving and, so far, unrealized dream, a deep desire for a happy marriage and motherhood. Was this the moment in life whitney would have it all . Houston well, i fell in love with a great man, and i thought, mm. I think ill have his baby. [ laughs ] lavar whitney as a mother that was the numberonething in her life. She loved being bobbi kris mother. She loved that baby with her whole heart, and as a mother, she wanted to protect her and give her the best that she could possibly do. Houston somehow motherhood, being a mother, period, you kind of stop living for yourself and you start living for your children. You know, everything that i do, everything that i think, everything that i say, Bobbi Kristina is on my mind when i do it. Sylvester do you ever get scared and say, oh, i dont know if i can do this. Maybe ill screw it up . Mmhmm. Yep. Yeah. Every day. [ laughs ] almost every day. Then ill screw it up. [ laughs ] i think that Whitney Houston looked at her daughter, as all moms do of their kids, and say, thats my greatest achievement. And i think that for Whitney Houston, the ultimate failure for her would be to know that her daughter would follow her footsteps. For Bobbi Kristina to die in virtually the same way her mom died was the ultimate tragedy. Whitney houston. Man alright, whitney [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. My favorite, favorite Whitney Houston moment was the American Music awards. I think its 1994. That is Whitney Houston at her finest. Woman when getting ready to come here, did you think that youd be standing there with eight of those . Um, no, i didnt think id be standing here with eight of them, but a few of them, i did. [ laughs ] i think after she became bigger than life, she became, in the same breath, almost as Michael Jackson and madonna. Then the receipts started pouring in, and all of a sudden, she had unlimited access to funds. The drug rumors really kicked in when the tabloids started showing Cover Stories of whitney out of control, around undesirables, and this really shocked the world because we had a squeakyclean image of Whitney Houston up until that point. In terms of whitneys drug use, man, i would have to say, man, that i was a little sheltered. You know, i think my perspective on her was i was maybe in denial for a lot of years, and it was just so hard for me to accept, and yet, yeah, i knew it. Moret by the preachers wife, by her own admission, she was doing drugs every day. She was already in a free fall. Sydney more details are emerging about Whitney Houstons absence from the oscars. The academy says that the decision to drop her from a musical segment was reached by the shows producers, musical directors Burt Bacharach and don was, and houston herself. Lemon a sign of not being able to perform is that you have been doing something that has kept you from performing, and i think thats where the realization came. Whitney, oh, my goodness hey, girl hi how yall doing . turner i think we all suspected. Nobody really wanted to talk about it. There was a lot of whispering whats wrong with whitney . When we saw that performance for the Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary performance. I mean. Wow. All you have to do is look at the picture. Whalum i remember seeing whitney on the Michael Jackson tribute in 2001 and just going, like, that is just not the same person. Its just not the same person. When i walked in and i saw how thin she was, i was very, very concerned. I was afraid for her. And after the show, i took her in the bathroom, and i told her i was like, whitney, look at you, and i lifted up her shirt, and i said, look at you. I said, whatever youre doing, you have to stop doing it, or youre going to die, and she said, i know, and she just started crying. Chung troubleladen diva Whitney Houston comes clean in an abc interview, admitting she used drugs, but says she now has the problem under control. That interview with diane sawyer was [ exhales sharply ] whitney, whitney, whitney. I couldnt take my eyes off of it, but i didnt want to watch it, at the same time. [ raspily ] you could hear it in her voice. I make too much money to do crack. First of all, lets get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Lets get that straight, okay . We dont do crack. We dont do that. Crack is wack. Moore i dont have to lie to you. I dont do that stuff cause, you know, crack thats wack. Now, im telling you. Shes high. Williams whitney, whitney, whitney. I dont know if you ever remember hearing the Wendy Williams radio interview. Whitney let Wendy Williams have it in a way i have never heard anybody on the radio. Whitney became very irate when people would ask her about her drug use because she thought they were trying to misdirect her talent and take away from her musical abilities. Whitney houston had a completely alter ego that the world didnt know about till much later in her life. Dr. Pinsky she needed to surrender. Whitney houston needed to throw up her hands and listen to Treatment Professionals and go into treatment and stay there and not contemplate anything else except her recovery. Many times she said to me, on more than one occasion, you dont know what its like being me. Everybody expects so much from me. mom bringing in a new roommate to save money is that the plan . dad well we gotta find some way to save. So say hi to glen. From work. glen hey. 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I couldnt find her, and i said to someone in the house, wheres whitney . And theyre like, oh, shes in the pool house. And i walk in, and i was like, what are you doing out here . She just laid her head on my chest and just busted out crying, and i had no idea. I just held her. You perceived this torment in her, and i think it really all stems back to this sense that she wasnt good enough. Cooper bobby brown is reportedly shopping around a reality show where tv cameras would keep track of every move brown and his wife, Whitney Houston, make. Producers have a Working Title for the show cops. Man i hear theres no holds barred here. Is that true . As much as much as we wanted to do that yeah. Whats the Biggest Surprise we might have . That were normal just normal. Moret there was nothing normal about Whitney Houston and bobby brown in being bobby brown. There was nothing normal about her life. Hey, baby. I need to go back to i need i need you. Unh go, go, go, go, go, go, go to get my, my, my glasses, glasses, glasses im hungry. Im hungry. I need a vacation. It just represented, you know, like watching someone selfdestruct, you know, on tv. It just was wrong in every way. It was a long union, but it was a very tumultuous one. There was so many incidents of drug abuse, of erratic behavior, arrests. Turner when he was in jail and getting out and she ran to him when he was coming out and jumped on him, she looked disheveled. He looked disheveled. Bye excuse us. We got to go. It just looked like a Codependent Weirdness that was uncomfortable for us to watch. Like, we literally were watching the train wreck in front of us. So then after the being bobby brown thing, she gets the divorce, and im like, oh, my god, yes hammer even more shocking celeb split news Whitney Houston says, i want a divorce. Lemon but now theyre divorced, and now shes going to be okay. She can get her image and her voice back, and america loves a comeback story. Hammer Whitney Houston the drug rumors, the divorce drama, and now word is the singer is making a comeback. Houston its not a comeback for me. Ive been here. Ive just been here. I just took a break, you know, which sometimes you have to. I was shocked at her condition, her vocal condition. She had no voice. But i went there because i was told, and it was true, that she wanted to make a return, a comeback, and it was sort of a hail mary pass, and then she needed to have her voice back, or else there was what else could she do . The problem with celebrity is that there arent the usual consequences to the behavior, if they continue to go back to their work as the solution to their problems. They have people around them for whom theyre making lots of money that want them back at work, and they never really get at the core issues. Tonight, houston, we have a problem. There is big controversy over whitneys Concert Performance on this mornings good morning america. [offkey] nothing to do but lift my head back up to you lemon so, from that horrible gma performance and it was horrible. Im sorry. She couldnt even sing she started touring around the world. Halperin she needed much more help than she got. She needed better people around her. Moore i remember clive coming to me, and he said, sam. What do i do . What can i do . [ sighs ] i said, clive, she needs help. Ill help. Ill do everything i can. His intentions were wonderful, but, see, when you got somebody thats. Higher, shes put higher than the person thats trying to help you, he cant do anything because they are going to close him out. Whitneys inner circle was not any place that we ever got, those of us who played with her. There was a wall that was very meticulously built by the folks who really were inside, and that was to keep certain people out and to keep certain people in. Halperin there was financial interests for the people around her, and they didnt want to rebel against her in fear that they might be cut out. Many times, she said to me on more than one occasion, you dont know what its like being me. Having this i mean, i feel im stressed out all the time. Everybody expects so much from me, and im trying, but its very, very, very difficult. I was not on board for the comeback. I felt like the forces and im not mentioning any names but i felt like the forces who were pulling for that were pulling for that and not pulling for whitney. Its getting worse. Its a progressive disease, and things are bad. Why do dermatologists choose dove . The dove beauty bar, is gentle. It not only cleans, it hydrates my skin. As a dermatologist, i want whats best for our skin. With 1 4 moisturizing cream, dove is the 1 Bar Dermatologists use at home. Tourists tourists that turn into scientists. Tourists photographing thousands of miles of remote coral reefs. 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Its a progressive disease, and things are bad. All i knew is, whatever is going on, its far worse than theyre letting us know. Halperin then there was the e interview, and this was maybe the icing on the cake. The door was open. I saw whitney walk in. I saw her say, hey, clive. You know, she i mean, she was boisterous, but she was excited to see clive, and she was excited to see, you know, brandy and monica. Moret whitney was trying to be playful and interrupt, but it was doing it in a way that made people think she was high. Come say hi to your godfather. Woman you sure youre okay . Hi. Come say hi to your goddad. It wasnt until i was close to her where i could smell alcohol. I could smell cigarettes. But it became very clear that, obviously, she was not completely 100 herself. Man say it, whitney woman whoo whitney the next night, i was going to a party in hollywood for kelly price, and it was a really chaotic scene, and inside, you could hear, you know, the screams for whitney, and its like, oh, whitney showed up . Ms. Whitney houston, Ladies And Gentlemen halperin she does a duet with kelly price, a couple of gospel songs, doesnt have the chops at all, but people are still happy shes there. Moret there was a woman who was on the x factor. I think she was a singer on the x factor, who Whitney Thought was making a move on her guy, and she got into it with her, and when she left tru nightclub, oh, gosh, she had scratches on her face. She had blood on her legs, you know, disheveled. Fastforward. Goes back to her hotel room. Shes caught reading the bible, talking about how she needs to be loved, and then the next day, seen drinking. At the bar. Lemon i remember. I was sitting on the anchor desk, and i finished a show, and i walked downstairs. I was in atlanta. And they said, we need you to go back upstairs. And i said, why . Halperin and then later on, 3 30, her personal assistant, mary jones. Knocks. No unresponsive, no answer. And they said, were getting word that Whitney Houston died. I said, what . halperin goes in and finds whitney in a hotwater bath. The bath was very hot. So i run i didnt even take the elevator. I ran back up the two flights of stairs. There was a lot of panic. They administered cpr. Paramedics arrived. They were unable to resuscitate her. It was too late. Whitney houston was dead. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. You know, every once in a while you have to report something that you thought would be the worst thing that could happen and it was going to happen and now it has. Whitney just died. So i was definitely not surprised. But. Hurt. The autopsy shows very clearly hardcore drug addict. Make no mistake about this. This is a hardcore drug addict. Halperin the question that has to be raised is why whitney was left alone for such a long period. Dr. Pinsky we know that she was taking a lot of cocaine, xanax, flexeril. How did the drugs appear in that room . Medications that dont belong together and are highly sedating. She may have just fallen asleep, slipped into the tub, and stopped breathing. Thats a possibility. How is it possible that whitney was even able to do drugs when these people were in contact with whitney, coming in and out of the room . She also had, again, high levels of cocaine, but also had cocaethylene in her system, which is a byproduct of cocaine and alcohol. Halperin the police found the mixture of drugs. They found numerous prescription medication. They found the spoon with powder on it. Dr. Pinsky she may have had a cardiac rhythm disturbance from the cocaine and sudden death. So we dont know, really, for sure, exactly what killed her. We know for sure its a substance death. I really believe this young lady wanted. Help. She was dealing with too much hurt and too much pain, pain that i knew about, pain that pains that people that loved her knew about. Even now, i feel. That sort of. Regret, you know . I think each person in a situation like that takes it on themselves to, like, what could i have done . I think probably nothing, but when i heard, i just sat there. I said, well. So we lost that battle. Lavar i think that people need to remember shes a human being. Shes a mother. Shes a daughter. She was a wife. She was a sister. Thats what they need to really, really, really focus on and not just her struggle. Whitneys going to be remembered as one of the greatest singers in American Musical history, a deeply flawed person and performer but a deeply human one, as well. Whitney houston includes all of it, the good and the bad. I thought she was great, despite all of her demons. I love you. Thank you. Lemon i wish she could have been around longer and lasted longer. Houston im humbled, actually, that the industry recognizes what you do. Its the best feeling in the world to be recognized by your peers and people that love you. Really, it is the best feeling, but im not done yet, believe me. How will Whitney Houston be remembered . Whitneys unforgettable voice will surely be her greatest legacy. After her death, 9 of her 10 albums returned to the top of the charts, with Whitney The Greatest Hits peaking at number 2 on the Billboard 200 and 886,000 copies sold. As a tribute to Whitney Houston, clive davis produced a documentary titled the soundtrack of our lives, and, finally, whitneys estate authorized a documentary about The Legendary Singer Directed By oscar winner kevin macdonald. Whitney, we will always love you. Thanks for watching. Good night. A lot of people misunderstand me. Its because they dont know me. I mean, i guess thats true