♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ an unforgettable voice. ♪ the greatest love of all >> a troubled life. ♪ >> whitney houston's death silenced a musical legend and left behind a grieving young daughter. three years later -- >> 21-year-old female in a bathtub, face down. p.d. is enroute. >> bobbi kristina brown is found lifeless in a tub just like her mother. ♪ i wish you

>> tonight, the triumphs and tragedies of a mother, a musician and her famous family. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ central park, 2009. whitney houston and her daughter bobbi kristina brown perform for "good morning america." >> i got my baby. >> bobbi kristina brown wanted to follow in the footsteps of her mother and her father, bobby brown to sing and act. ♪ i'll never find someone like you ♪ >> but for now, her biggest stage was social media, singing adele's ballad on twitter. posing poolside in a bikini and with her true love, nick gordon. but that love may have come with a price, family tension and division.

>> the family and the sources that i spoke with all said they were very concerned about her relationship with nick gordon. they believe deeply that he is not good for her, and i will tell you the thing that struck me when i was having these conversations, this same conversation sounded like what we were hearing about bobby and whitney all those years ago. ♪ >> in bad times and good, what's never change side bobbi kristina's love for her mother. in 2012 she told oprah winfrey it's her mother's voice that keeps her afloat. >> i can hear her voice, you know, in spirit talking to me and telling me, you know, keep moving, baby, you know? i'm right here. i got you. she's always with me. i can always feel her. i can always feel her with me. >> this past august she celebrated whitney's birthday tweeting a photo of a birthday cake with a caption "happy

birthday, mommy." bobbi kristina has left little doubt about the void created by her mother's death which makes this tragic news even more shocking. >> we have a response. possible cardiac arrest. 21-year-old female facedown in a bathtub. p.d. is enroute. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> the late superstar whitney houston's daughter has been found unresponsive in a bathtub full of water. >> her husband and a friend located her in the bathtub and they immediately started cpr on her. she was transported to north fulton hospital. >> her condition was so grave, doctors put her into an induced coma. meantime, investigators are trying to determine what happened to bobbi kristina inside her atlanta home. her father issued this statement and we are currently investigating the events that led to the hospitalization of bobbi kristina.

we continue to request privacy in this matter. >> there are still so many unknowns. was it an accident or something worse? who was she with the night before? were drugs involved? >> right now they did not see anything on the scene that would indicate that. no alcohol or drugs lying around that would indicate that. ♪ >> one thing is clear, by any measure, this is a tragedy leaving family and fans reeling and remembering back to much brighter days. ♪ ♪ ♪ and i will always love you >> whitney houston, the shy jersey girl who belted her way to superstardom, six grammys and a record seven consecutive number one singles.

for a time, she was pop's greatest love of all. ♪ it is 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, was there 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. whitney houston died her 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 dionne warwick, houston was born to sing. >> when you first saw whitney and you first heard whitney you knew that 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 now executive editor at "in touch weekly" reported on the death of whitney. >> one person who worked with whitney told us she was not a goody 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. 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. t "the bodyguard" grossed more than $100 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 qwest the," 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 of 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 that she had started before she had met bobby brown. >> we have to live with -- >> houston's increasingly's 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. >> we're working on a year and a half of sobriety and my wife, she's 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 with her

overall 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 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" shaun robinson did the last one-on-one with her. >> when i looked whitney houston in her eyes i thought that this

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♪ ♪ with a new movie and a new sparkle of her own, a seemingly healthy whitney houston started the new year poised to perhaps make that long-awaited comeback, 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 said that she had gone to rehab and had the great experience filming "sparkle," there were temptations and unfortunate lie she started partying again and spending time with perhaps the wrong people and fell right back into that sad spiral. ♪ ♪

>> three days before the annual grammy awards show whitney houston was staying here at the beverly hilton and it is here where over several days sources say the pop superstar was seen consuming considerable amounts of alcohol and acting erratically. >> garrett kennedy of the l.a. times was covering a pre-grammy press event at the beverly hilton when the singer raised eyebrows at the hotel pool seen here in this tmz photo. >> one of the conversations i had with a grammy staffer was that security were getting calls from guests that she was doing handstands 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 goddad. >> i said, oh, my god, you're a mess right now and you're embarrassing yourself and i'm embarrassed for you.

>> the pop star appeared anything but dishevelled and disoriented later that night. >> whitney houston attended this grammy 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 holding hands, in fact, with bobbi kristina and they both looked radiant when they arrived and they were looking fantastic. >> houston was up for imprompty entertaining and she surprised everyone when she joined her friend r&b grammy nominee kelly price. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the place erupted and 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 houston had champagne at the party, she denies 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 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

superstardom. her struggles with addiction and the loss of her once incomparable voice and 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 pre-grammy celebrati celebration, whitney houston was in her fourth-floor suite at the beverly hilton when music executives staying on the floor above hers was jolted awake by a loud thus. >> a member of her entourage went in and discovered her unconscious in a bathtub partially submerged. a 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 that something was terribly wrong, and by then i saw the yellow police tape down the hall. i rushed in the room, and i said what's going on here? and pat told 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 was 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 >> but there was no stopping it. a victim of her own addiction. toxicology tests revealed houston had cocaine, xanax and marijuana in her body. as well as a muscle relaxant flexeril and the allergy medicine benadrylbenadryl. the coroner determined the cause of death was accidental drowning with the effects of heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors. a life built on triumph ended in tragedy. but for those who knew her, the megastar 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, so strong. ♪ all at once >> and then it hit me that you're not coming back all at once.

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it was february 12th, 2011.

a year before whitney houston died. a pre-grammy party. >> whitney houston. >> whitney was back. back from years of erratic behavior and drug use. ♪ welcome back >> where's the voice? >> you're saying she couldn't sing. >> no. ♪ the moment i wake up >> rock 'n' 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." "ooh," she fell down. i said no, don't get on your knees. and she's sweating. 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 always was perspiring. she was doing this to her face, wiping the sweat. >> at that moment, he knew she was an addict. he knew because sam moore was an addict himself. 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 brother, michael, talked about it with oprah winfrey when he and his mother both gave her first interview since whitney houston's death. >> we played together, you know. and everything that you do

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, you know. just drugs are rough. >> something sam moore knows all too well which is why he tried to intervene that fateful night four years ago. but her entourage pulled her away too quickly. then he says he talked to whitney's cousin, dionne warwick. >> i said dionne, drugs, man, this ain't it. this ain't cool. you know what she said to me? malicious gossip, sam. what are you doing? i'm just telling you, she's 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 said, "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 >> and you knew what she was doing. well, why you didn't help save that voice? she could have had a legacy. but where is it? it died with these people. that's the legacy. >> now her only child, bobbi kristina brown, is in peril. unbelievably, she, too, was found in a bathtub and now lies in a coma clinging to life. mother and daughter who shared a

love of music, a love for each other, an extraordinary bond. time will tell if they will also share the same fate. back in 1981, i had the american dream, the beautiful wife, the house in the suburbs, and a beautiful 6-year-old son. and one day i went to work, kissed my son good-bye, never saw him again. in two weeks, i became the parent of a murdered child, and i'll always be the parent of a murdered child. i still have the heartache, i still have the rage. i waited years for justice. i know what it's like to be there