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♪ ♪ but of all this, i wish you love ♪ >> that legendary ballad, that blinding beauty. ♪ and i >> that breathtaking voice. ♪ will always love you >> whitney houston, the shy jersey girl who belted her way to super stardom, six grammys and a record seven consecutive number one singles. for a time, she was pop's greatest love of all. ♪ the greatest love of all >> to hear her voice was a miracle, because for anybody to be able to do with a voice what she did with hers speaks to a divine order.

>> whitney houston, the icon, unimaginably talented, but also fatally flawed. >> there were many different sides to whitney. there was the performer, the consummate professional. there was the addict. and you never knew which whitney you were going to get. >> if houston was blessed by the heavens, she was most certainly cursed with her own demons. a contradiction right up to her final days. >> this was not a woman who was depressed, upset, high, drunk. >> it was immediate. you could smell the stench of cigarettes and of liquor. i thought oh my god, she is a mess right now. >> whitney houston died here at the beverly hilton on february 11th. the voice of a generation silenced forever. a tragic ending to a life filled with promise that was almost preordained.

with a gospel legend for a mother and a cousin named dion warwick, houston was born to sing. >> when we first saw whitney, you first heard whitney, you knew there was something special happening here. >> legendary music producer clive davis certainly knew. he discovered houston and changed her life forever. he packaged and polished the 19-year-old sensation into a pure pop princess, at least on the surface. alexis chu reported on whitney's death for "people" magazine. >> one source who worked with whitney told us she definitely was not a goodie two shoes in any sense of the word. >> houston's bad girl side may have ultimately drawn her to r & b bad boy bobby brown. >> she was a girl from the streets of newark, and she fell in love with a bad boy with a good voice.

so, you know, her fans, yes, very shocked. those who knew her best really weren't surprised. >> houston and brown traded rings in 1992. a personal high matched only by a professional one that very same year. "the bodyguard" gross in order than $400 million and launched the top selling soundtrack of all time. ♪ >> but even as the crossover superstar commanded millions for movies like "the preacher's wife," she increasingly struggled with her fame. >> did she ever talk to you about the stress of fame? >> she said to me you don't know what it's like being me. i'm stressed out all the time. >> that stress was only compounded by houston's often rocky marriage. >> they were very happy at first. but pretty soon their relationship turned pretty volatile. and when she was under pressure, she tended to turn to drugs and alcohol.

>> when houston began a string of missed appearances and cancellations, many pointed their finger at bobby brown for his wife's mounting troubles with drugs. >> i hate to say she had started before she had met bobby brown. >> we got to live -- >> houston's increasingly erratic behavior even played out before the cameras in the short-lived reality show "being bobby brown." but when brown spoke to cnn in 2005, he insisted he and his famous wife were finally sober. i i'm working on a year and a half of sobriety. and my wife, she is working on her year. so we're really doing good, and i'm proud of her. >> yet her attempts at recovery only ended in relapse for houston, and the years of drug abuse had taken their toll. >> i was shocked at her condition, her vocal condition. >> what happened to whitney houston's voice?

>> i think that the psychological impact of being who she was drove her into lifestyle habits that ultimately were destructive. >> by be may 2011, whitney houston was divorced. her attempt at a comeback a year earlier was in shambles. with all these crushing personal setbacks, she entered into a voluntary outpatient program for drug and alcohol treatment. friends say she just needed a break. >> i know that she was pacing herself, because she was preparing for the movie. i don't know exactly what she went through to do that. >> that movie was "sparkle," and by the time whitney houston began doing press for the film, she did seem like a different woman. access hollywood's shawn robinson did the last one-on-one interview with her. >> when i looked whitney houston in her eyes, i thought this woman is coming back.

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but behind the scenes, some now all too familiar and alarming behavior. alexis chu, now with "in touch weekly," reported on whitney's death for "people" magazine. >> her friends told us even though she had successfully gone to rehab and had this great experience filming "sparkle," there are always temptations. unfortunately, she started partying again and perhaps with the wrong people and fell back into that sad spiral. >> three days before the annual grammy awards show, whitney houston was staying here at the beverly hilton. it is here where over several days sources say the pop superstar was seen consuming considerable amounts of alcohol and acting erratically. derrick kennedy of "the l.a. times" was covering a pregrammy press event at the beverly hilton when the singer raised

eyebrows at the hotel pool. >> one of the conversation i had with a grammy staffer was that security were getting calls from guests that she was doing hand stands by the pool. oh, that's pretty bizarre. >> and then there was this -- kennedy says houston smelled of cigarettes and alcohol when she burst in on her mentor, clive davis. >> come say hi to your godfather. come say hi to your god dad. >> i'm like oh my god, you're a mess right now. you're embarrassing yourself. i'm embarrassed for you. >> but the pop star appeared anything but dishevelled or disoriented later that night. whitney houston attended a pregrammy party at this hollywood nightclub. and as she walked the red carpet, witnesses say she had it together and was on her best behavior. adam ambrose is a publicist for true hollywood. >> she walked along here

withholding hands in fact with bobbi kristina. they both looked radiant. when they arrived, they were looking fantastic. >> houston was even up for a little impromptu entertaining. she surprised everyone when she joined her friend, r&b grammy nominee kelly price on stage. ♪ >> the place erupted. i mean, it was very sweet. it was actually very touching when she went on. >> fun times, but too much of a good time? not so, says kelly price. while she says that houston had champagne at the party, she denies reports that things got out of hand with her friend. >> this was not a woman who was depressed, upset, high, drunk. she was clearly in her right mind. she was not acting erratic.

>> but access hollywood's shaun robinson says the pictures taken that thursday night tell a whole different story. >> i said who is that? what the hell happened? what happened in three months? that took her from this person who seemed to really have it all together to this person who looked very dishevelled and just kind of not there. >> in a sad reality, houston hadn't been herself in years, at least not the one fans had come to love at the height of her super stardom. her struggles with addiction, the loss of her once incomparable voice, the pressures of fame had all but destroyed houston's once magnificent facade. and by saturday, february 11th, any hope of a comeback would be over. hours away from attending clive davis' annual pregrammy celebration, whitney houston was

in her fourth floor suite here at the beverly hilton when a music executive staying on the floor above hers was jolted awake by a loud thud. >> a member of her entourage went in and discovered her unconscious in the bathtub, partially submerged. the member of the entourage called 911 immediately. >> within minutes, paramedics arrived, making desperate attempts to revive her. >> her brother gary was in the room, and his wife pat obviously praying for a miracle. >> houston's close friend kim burrell received a troubled call and raced over to the hotel. >> you could feel something was terribly wrong. and by then i saw the yellow police tape down the hall. so i rushed in the room and i said what's going on here. and patel me she's gone. >> whitney houston was dead on the eve of music's biggest

night, one of its biggest icons was gone. she was only 48. >> bobbi kristina broke down in the hotel lobby and just was screaming over and over again what's wrong with her, what's wrong with her. so we can only imagine what is going through this girl's mind. but her mother was her world. >> i wanted everything to just stop. wait a minute. because what i felt was happening i didn't want to be happening. >> but there was no stopping it. a victim of their own addiction, toxicology tests revealed that houston had cocaine, xanax and marijuana in her body, as well as a muscle relaxant and benadryl. the los angeles county coroner determined the cause of death was accidental drowning with the effects of heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors.

the life built on triumph ended in tragedy. but for those who knew her, the mega star known as the voice will always sing on. >> when someone like that dies, the music takes on a new meaning. the music takes on a meaning now that whitney is not here. and a song that makes me very emotional, it was that song "all at once." and the lyrics are so strong ♪ all at once >> and then it hit me that you're not coming back all at once. ♪ i realizing that you're not coming back ♪ ♪ and it finally hit me all at once ♪ >> coming up, questions about whether some close to whitney helped her addiction. >> you gotten ablers.

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the 1960s were the decade in which everything we have now was hinted at or promised. it was february 12st, 2011. a year before whitney houston died. a pre-grammy party. >> miss whitney houston. >> whitney was back, back from years of erratic behavior and

drug use. ♪ walk on by >> where is the voice? >> you're saying she couldn't sing? >> no. ♪ the moment i wake up >> rock and roll hall of famer sam moore was in the audience. an old houston family friend, he and his wife joyce knew the girl everyone called nippy growing up was in trouble. >> she came in and she looked over, and she saw me. and i said nippy, hey, baby! and she fell on her knees. i said no, no, don't get on your knees. and she is sweating when she is starting to perform. and i said joyce. she said high, i said high. >> high on drugs. far from the girl he first met decades earlier. >> i thought she was the cutest little thing. >> whitney came to call him uncle sam. and as quickly as moore watched the girl he called nippy rise,

he watched her fall. it was the early '90s. >> when i first realized that she was using, i saw her on tv. she was always perspiring when she was doing -- >> at that moment he knew she was an addict. she knew because sam moore was an addict himself. he was on his way to rock bottom when his wife convinced him to get help. ♪ 30 years later, performing at the apollo, he is reminded of nippy. the theater was a site of a memorial after her death, a death sam knows all too well was tough to prevent. >> if they want it, they going to get it. don, you got enablers. you even got parents. they know that their child is doing it. that person is the cash car. so what are they going to say? >> sam's wife joyce believes

whitney's own family helped fuel her habit. >> members in whitney's family, immediate and extended that had their problems with drugs. >> the family declined to comment and did not respond to our questions about these claims. whitney's mother, gospel singer cissy houston talks about her daughter's drug abuse in remembering whitney. whitney's brother michael talked about it with oprah winfrey when he and his mother both gave their first interview since whitney's death. >> we played together. and everything that you're doing together as you're growing up. and then when you get into drugs, you do that together too. and it just got out of hand. just drug is rough. >> something sam moore knows all too well, which is why he tried to intervene that fateful night three years ago. but her entourage pulled her away too quickly. then he says he talked to whitney's cousin, dionne

warwick. >> i said dionne, she is struggling. i'm just saying, she is getting high. >> sam, stop. stop. you're starting rumors. there's nothing wrong with her. >> warwick's spokesperson says dionne didn't feel it was her place to discuss houston's personal matters. sam stepped away. moments later, whitney's daughter approached him. >> here comes bobbi kristina. uncle sam! i say hey, baby. uncle sam. help my mommy. and before i could say anything, this guy literally pulling her away. from me. >> a moment that haunts moore to this day. >> she was one of the greatest voices. ♪ and i

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