voice. we thought it would be fitting to discover that voice. in 1983, whitney was discovered by clive davis performing in a new york city nightclub. that year, she made her nationally televised debut on the merv griffin show. she was 19 years old and performed a cover of the show "the wiz." tonight, whitney houston, was she a victim of her success? an investigation into her death. >> this is an active investigation by the beverly hills police department. >> you can look at a body and not know what the cause of death is. you might have a suspicion. >> the funeral arrangements and her last interview. whitney houston, the stars say good-bye, chaka chan, jennifer holiday. the hit making producer that made whitney a star speaks out for the first time since her death. only in america. from an 11-year-old girl singing

her idol's songs in the mirror and in front of millions in a farewell. is the piers morgan tonight. good evening. my exclusive with whitney houston's close friend, chak khan in a moment. the autopsy is being completed and houston's body arrives in new jersey tonight where her funeral is tentatively set for friday. no word on the cause of death. the results of the toxicology test should be available in six to eight weeks. police say there's no indication at the moment of any foul play. >> as of right now, it's not a criminal investigation. we have concluded our portion of the investigation at the hotel. we have a team of investigators that are specifically assigned to this case. as of right now in this state --

>> reporting on the story on saturday night, the world reeled in shock from the death of whitney houston, let me ask you, don, straight away, what do we really know about the circumstances of whitney's death? there's lots of rumors flying around as i'm sure you're aware. what do we think we know? >> there are a lot of rumors flying around. i want to address something you said at the top about the funeral services for whitney houston. tentatively set for friday, piers. at the prudential center in newark, new jersey, much like the staples center where michael jackson's funeral was held, seats about the same, expecting a big crowd. they will tentatively have it there according to the newark "star-ledger" on friday. there's so many rumors floating around about prescription medication found in her room, where she was found in the bathroom if she was submerged under water. according to the coroner i spoke with today and spoke with him after he did a scrum with reporters. he said, don, there were

prescription bottles found in her room. it wasn't out of the ordinary and not something you find in an overdose situation not so say she didn't overdose or misuse the medication that was there. at this point, they don't know that. they did find prescription medication but not out of the ordinary. they don't know as of yet if it was death by drowning because when the coroner got there and emergency workers got there she had been removed from the tub and staff who had seen her an hour ago in this room. they're waiting for the toxicology report, as he calls them, tox, to come in six to eight weeks. they want to wait. listen, press, reporters, hold your horses, don't assume anything, let's let the investigation play out. >> don, the other big question everyone is talking about today is how is whitney's daughter, bobbi kristina, because reports of two visits to hospitals yesterday suffering from some kind of stress breakdown.

do you have any update how she is? >> reporter: she's fine, according to family members and reports. but it was on the first night, really, was the first time she went to the hospital, piers. here's what they say happened. you and i reported some of this saturday night. bobbi kristina was in the lobby staying with her mom at the beverly hilton hotel. when she found out about it, having a great time with the pre-grammy celebration, she hears the news of her mother. she goes back up to the room to try to see her mother, they won't let her in, becomes hysterical, an 18-year-old girl has to be taken to the hospital. they release her. yesterday, same scenario, overcome by grief because of her mom's death, hysterical, took her to the hospital and released her. her dad, on tour with his former group, new edition, down south in mississippi and tennessee, he came back to los angeles and the word is he is bringing her back east to be with her family.

one more thing i want to tell you about, those photographs, the club you have been talking about and we've been reporting on. i left there no more than about an hour and half ago and spoke to one of the managers. he said, listen, whitny was having a great time. nothing seemed out of the ordinary. she was there for her friend, kelly price. you see her sweaty there with what looks like blood on her foot, they believe it was wine. there was 400 people filled to cap pass. it they say that's a snapshot, they didn't think anything was out of the ordinary. we have to wait for the investigation to play out, toxicology reports to figure out exactly what's going on. piers. >> we do. don lemon. thank you. joined now by the weekend correspondent from "access hollywood," she did the last interview with whitney houston. at the time, you had no idea what would be happening. how do you feel about the fact you did the last interview with whitney houston?

>> i am still in shock. i went to my hometown of detroit and interviewed whitney houston on the set of the movie "sparkle" she was filming in detroit. we had the only one-on-one interview with her. with everyone else, she was paired with somebody else from the movie to deflect questions about her personal life. she felt comfortable enough with me to do the interview solo with me and we talked about a half hour about her career and family life and where she is in her life right now. i have to tell you, we have heard so many stories about whitney coming back. she didn't really look as though she was coming back at those points. this time, when i interviewed her, it was only in november, three months ago i interviewed her, she look fantastic. >> let's take -- >> absolutely fantastic. >> i want to see what she looke like. >> i've got 30 years under my belt now. >> you do? >> 30 years this year.

30 years in the music industry. there'll be ups and downs and all around, you know what i'm saying? your belief and your faith and determination, the encourages, people who encourage you to do and be the best you can. >> she certainly looks okay and certainly seems quite self-aware in what she was saying there. but that's not the whitney i guess we've been seeing over the last couple of days. you can see that she was a different kind of woman. >> certainly. that is what is so astounding because everyone on the set of "sparkle" said she was a mentor to them. jordan sparks plays her daughter in the film said she goes to whitney all the time for advice, somebody everyone on the set looked up to. there was nothing about her that day that was any signal in some 13 weeks she would be dead. if anyone had told me that, i would not believe it. when you looked at her on that day and where we are today, the

only thing you can say is what the heck happened? because this was a totally different person? she look like she was going to be at the top of her game once again. >> let me bring in chaka chan. you were very close to whitney. called her your baby sister. >> my little sister. >> you were supposed to be performing at the grammy's last night and felt it wouldn't be appropriate. tell me about that. >> it was actually -- yeah. i don't know how it got out there. they were announcing it. i said, i am? tammy, my manager, we called and talked to ken, said what's going on? >> the producer? >> right. >> kim said, well, you know, we've been kicking it around back and forth and sort of decided we will go with one singer and keep it -- keep the

thing tight. i personally was not really willing to go and sing, "i'm every woman." that's ridiculous. i felt it was ridiculous, very inappropriate. >> why did you feel that? >> well, it's as though -- as much as i am spiritual and do celebrate death to some extent, i look at it more as like a graduation out of the flesh into spirit and freeing one up, i'm taking this one kind of -- kind of hard. i know what an intelligent bright funny witty loving sweet person and a great, great force musically, one of the greatest voices of all time. >> that is indisputable. let me ask you, is the what concerns me about what has happened here, is that so many

of her close friends talk this way about her. yet, for the last two days of her life, she seemed to be on this huge party. >> yeah. >> surrounded by people, let's not use the word "enabler," i don't know enough about it. people allowing her to drink champagne in clubs. is the an addict, well-known well documented addict. >> that's right. >> as one of her close friends, how do you feel about what was being allowed to happen to her? >> i have strong feelings about that. i, too, was an addict. i know -- if i were on a set of a movie, even now, having recovered for seven years, we'd have made -- i was coming to a city like l.a., we'd have made specific plans that i come in, day, night before, day of performance, especially if you're still -- if you're not -- you have gone into proper

treatment and gotten really handled, gotten your situation handled, that was the first big mistake for her to come an entire week before her performance at the party. i'd have never done that. >> i was shocked it was happening. i see these pictures apparently falling out of clubs and covered with blood and wine. the fact she was drinking in public in these clubs in hollywood seemed to me a potential recipe for disaster. >> it was, absolutely was. i stand by that. i stand on that. i stand on whoever flew her out to perform at that party, should have provided someone to be there, to somehow look -- just keep the riff raft out of the situation, keep some of the dangerous people away. >> was she very vulnerable do you think? >> yes. >> even to the end, to that kind of situation? >> i am. i'm very vulnerable as a -- you

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bobby brown, a lot of people want to blame the music business, a lot of people want to blame everyone. what do you think? >> it's all of the above and a whole lott more. it boils down to you. you know, i was introduced to certain people and to certain opportunities to use recreational drugs. it boils down to whether i want to do it or not. she was a strong-willed, strong-minded girl. and i can't say that it's anybody's fault but -- >> would she have gone down that route, do you think, without bobby brown in her life? >> well, if not him, somebody else. if she wants to get high -- if you want to get high, you will get high. >> do you think she had that tendency anyway? >> i think that we all as artist, because we're highly sensitive people -- and this

machine around us, this so-called music industry, is such a demonic thing, it's sacrifices people's lives and their essences at the drop of a dime. >> how did you feel when you heard sony, i think back in the uk, had jacked the prices up of whitney's album within an hour or so of her dying. >> i had a manager who said to me, actually said to me, you know, you're worth more money dead than alive. okay, so, i am just by the grace of god stand i here because i could have easily, easily, because of a lot of pressure from the label i was with at the time, i went through a really really rough time, where i didn't want to go outside, didn't want to be seen, didn't want to be around, i really didn't. >> let me ask you a specific

question. i'm assuming every singer, particularly a female diva kind of singer has a kind of peak moment in their career, in terms of the tone of their voice and their ability to hit those big notes. one of the few people who told me he knew whitney well was "the bodyguard" was that kind of her, she could hits the incredible notes. when that ability began to go, mixed in with the lifestyle choices she was making, it became an unbearable pressure on her to try and emulate that. someone said to me -- david foster, i think is coming on the show tomorrow night is quoted as saying that movie, the singing that went on in that movie, not only ruined it for everybody else to try and compete with her, it ruined it for whitney because she could never again live up to that. have you been through that process? >> yes. >> what is it like? >> let me tell you, i had polyps

on my throat from like smoking, drinking and things like that. this is back in the '80s. when i didn't know what my diagnosis was, i thought i was losing my votes. i couldn't hit any high notes, had trouble with low notes at mid-range, very suffocating. and i started actually considering what else could i do for a living. i was devastated! i was devastated because i thought i didn't have my voice anymore. i went to some specialist, said it was a polyp we need to remove and once the polyp was removed, i got my full range back. i think with whitney, it probably would be a similar scenario, see a specialist about it and probably had a few polyps on there. right now, we have the technology, you can maintain. you can maintain, and you can hit the same notes you hit 20 years ago. >> but from her performances that i saw, clearly, i think

affected by the drug abuse and so on, she couldn't hit them anymore. >> no. >> what do you think that did to her? >> it killed her. it killed her. it would have -- i know. the last gig i did with her -- last time i saw her was at my gig with prince here in l.a. on may 5th, and when i was singing, i saw her in the audience, i was so happy to see her, i could see -- she just wanted to sing. all we want to do is sing. >> that must have been agony for her that she couldn't? >> it was. it was agony. it was a killer. i told her, come on up, come on, let's do something. i just said, forget about the song, forget about the words, do what you want, you know. and we had a great time. after that, we had a great time after the show in my dressing room. we talked for over an hour and laughed and talked about life,

and i was so happy. and when her mother -- when cissy told me, when i saw cissy a couple months ago at a gig she had gotten this part in a movie and in canada recording, i said, wow, cissy, this is it, this is it. it will be great for her. this is like life wrath she needed for her soul, for her well-being, for feeling good and feeling whole, you know. >> were you, if you're honest, surprised when you heard the news, shocked, yes, saddened, yes, were you surprised or has this been the kind of news many of her friends have long feared mehsudly be brought upon them -- feared may suddenly be brought upon them? >> i have to be honest, in my life just as not as well publicized as with her life, there are a lot of parallels,

i'm sure my family thought like her family thought and i thought, oh, my god, i mean, i've cried for her a lot over the years, so many times i've -- in a way, i've mourned her because i felt that she was-something was going to happen because she was so close to the wire. >> would she listen to people? >> yes. she'd give her -- haren digs of how she felt. >> what was her defense really of her actions? >> she had no defense. really no defense. she does what -- she's a-i'm a gaw, a grown woman. she was, a grown woman. the choices and decisions she made for her life, i think had she been spared, would have made her a greater human being. >> have you talked to the family?

>> yes. i've been in touch. i'm a good friend with whitney's mom, cissy. >> how is she? >> she's -- she's coping, she's coping. she's, you know, she's also, you know, for, i'm sure, many times, had fear for her daughter's life. i know my mother did and my little girl did. my son. so i know what this world that we're living in, this business, particularly, can do to one. >> you were, i think, going to go to the clive davis party. >> yes. >> it was a surreal event where whitney's body was still in the hotel and a party where half the room were in tears and the other half partying. what did you feel about that? >> i thought that was complete insanity. and knowing whitney, i don't believe she would have said, the show must go on.

she was the kind of woman, stop everything, uh-huh. i'm not going to be there. you know. i don't know what could motivate a person to have a party in a building where the person whose life he had influenced so enormously and whose life had been affected by hers, they wer like -- i don't understand how that party went on. >> i had clive davis friday night with jennifer hudson and he must have gone through agony when he heard this news knowing it was two to three hours of this event and he took the decision to turn it into a tribute to her. he was wrestling with the right thing to do. >> that would have been right if it really was a true tribute.

a true tribute, you know, might have been a more honest tribute, in my -- my opinion would have been maybe call everybody together, let's say a prayer and let's eat dinner and go home. >> what is your -- >> i couldn't get dressed. i was supposed to go to the party. i just got off a plane from miami at 5:30. as soon as i hit the tarmac, i found out, i heard. i couldn't put on makeup, i couldn't get dressed, i couldn't do anything, i was paralyzed. i couldn't do anything. >> what is your abiding memory of whitney houston? >> they're all really good ones. and funny ones. there was one time, me and her and bobby were all together in a hotel, it was actually in florida as well. we were up there getting high together. talking crazy and having a really really good laughing and

a really really good time. now, it sounds all suspect and crazy, but it wasn't. we were just three people talking and bobby said, chaka, you ought to let me manage you. and i guffawed at that andlaugh ing at him. bobbi kristina, she's a lovely little girl. >> are you worried about her? >> i'm concerned. >> i know cissy. i told her, i have a lot of resources to help children. i love her like she's a niece. i said the big thing we have to do now is make sure this whole scenario doesn't repeat itself and bobbi kristina is taken care of and handled and happy. >> i have to leave it there and it's been great talking to you. >> thank you. and god bless you.

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♪ >> wyclef jean and whitney houston at the american awards in 1999 singing. when he heard about her passing while performing in "new york times," while the show went on, he did stop for a moment of silence. thank you for joining me. i've managed to pronounce your name wrong twice this evening, depending who i was listening to. you were named after a great performer, wyclef jean. i should have known this. i apologize. >> thank you. >> i had this extraordinary interview with chaka khan, really searing inside fame, addiction, whitney's problems and her spirit and so on. what do you think has been the biggest misconception about whitney that you heard or read in the last 36 hours? >> i would say being in this

studio with whitney houston and meeting her for the first time. what i want people to concentrate on is her natural warmth for humanity. as big as a diva she was, no matter who it was, she always was on your level, ready to don converse with you and show you love. that's the whitney i love. >> in terms of the issues she had to deal with, how much of an impact do you think that had on her natural talent? >> for me, being in the studio with her and understanding the stress we artists go through at times, it's not the first time in history that, you know, where we feel the pressure. what i was saying earlier, i was saying every night when someone has to go up and be a superman or super woman on stage, no matter what happens, i think that takes a toll on us psychologically, emotionally, physically.

obviously, all the stuff about her private life will be gone over and repeated and so on. whitney houston started in the church and that natural love of where her talent came from, that's how i would like her to be remembered. >> there are people who want someone to blame here. i thought it was fascinating to hear chaka khan to say you can blame bobby brown and the record business. in the end, also if you're whitney houston, you have to take blame for your own situation, your own life and she was a very strong-willed woman. would you go along with that?

>> what i would say is the whitney i know and being in the studio with her, what i want -- we to understand as human beings we are human and we are quick to judge. unless we are in the situation of the individual, we cannot understand the stress they're enduring at the time. >> how much harder is it, do you think, for any artist in the modern age with the advent of the internet, blockers, every member of the public having a camera phone, effectively making everyone pap razzy, the newspaper, rolling celebrity, television shows, people interviewing lionel richie and nokeky robinson on the night she died saying it is much much harder to be in the pressure cooker of fame today than it used to be. >> the reason is we're living in

a time anyone can blog anything about you, catch you on video and interpret it and put it back on youtube however they want to do it. there is no editing. i think we're living in a modern time where our personal privacy no longer exists. that also takes a personal toll on how we live as celebrities. back in this day, remember, there was no youtubes or outlets. anything we do, within 3.1 second, it's a blog version of what it is, whether it's true or not. >> what if you tweeted the following i thought was extremely powerful. the voice of an angel, the heart of a lamb, the spirit of a lioness, the presence of a goddess, love you, rip, whitney houston. >> i tweeted that for clive. i wrote this song called "my love is your love" going into

the studio with whitney houston the first time, we were so nervous we was going into the studio with the number one diva. when she walked in the studio for the first time when she opened her mouth and we -- the way her warmness and how she greeted us and us knowing she's such a goddess and giant in the music business, that kind of warmth was the reason that we tweeted -- i tweeted what i tweeted. >> it was very powerful andvok evoktive. thank you very much for joining us. i appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up, jennifer holiday's memories of whitney houston and what they have in common.

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it would be nice to be back home where there's love ♪ ♪ and affection >> that was whitney houston bursting onto the music scene in her first appearance on the merv griffin show. she was just 19. jennifer holiday also hit broadway by storm when she was 21. she's known whitney houston since she started out. jennifer, a very tough time for you and all of whitney's friends. what are your emotions? you've had time to reflect on whitney and her life. what are your feelings?

>> it's still so hard for all of us to believe. for me, having pretty much spent my adult life in new york, i did get a chance to be around her in the sense where we were all together because of her fabulou mother, cissy houston, who in her own right is a legend and contributed so much to r&b music and taught us so much and met her through luther vandross, a close friend of mine and adored dr. houston. we all got to be around. i'm three years older than whitney. i had already been on broadway, already got antony and already gotten the grammy. but when she came on the scene and met us all, and then when she became this superstar, she never changed. i think that that's due to, you know, her mother and dionne

warwick and her god mother bein aretha franklin. it just didn't change with her. she also had a different kind of source of light around her. it was -- i can't even explain it. i call her at times having been my little angel because i had a different kind of trouble. i suffered from depression. and i -- i'm just -- i'm overwhelmed because i listened to chaka. we arell artists who are so close to have been on that same journey. i think that i was saved from not doing drugs because on broadway, i had to do eight shows a week. i had to show up. they just didn't go for that sort of thing. >> tell me this, jennifer. tell me this. the assumption about whitney

houston is that she was having this fabulous life and was pretty squeaky clean, and then she meets bobby brown and it all goes horribly wrong and he's the guy that got her into drugs and she has this terrible end to her life and that downward spiral. is that true? you knew her well and knew her lifestyle before she met bobby brown. is that true? >> well, i -- i can say this. that we were all around a lot of drugs and that she had -- i hate to say that she had started before she had met bobby brown. >> you see, i think that's important, simply for the background to how whitney ended up in the situation that she ended up in, because it is a presumed assumption that the bad again all this is bobby brown,

but as chaka khan hinted to me and you confirmed with that detail, it may be more complex. >> it was around us all. at that time, when whitney had started and had become a star in the '80s, we were just around it all and there in new york, the aids epidemic had begun to take over. in new york, it wiped out not only the broadway community but quite a few of whitney's friends, especially her piano player who she adored and treated so wonderfully and loving and warm and i got to see her again, that light. but it had -- it had begun. we were around it and i-you know, i don't want to call names of people that were around her at that time. they may all speak themselves and begin to be honest about some of the things that were going on back at that time.

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michael warden was the first major producer whitney worked with. music mogul clive davis brought them together. he comes to talk during a very difficult time for everyone that loved whitney and i'm sure you feel as distraught as everyone else about it. i want to focus with you on the glory period. we heard lots of stuff about her life and issues. as a performer, when you were making particularly "the bodyguard" and you came up with these incredible songs, how good was whitney? >> to me, whitney is a talent we have never known. i worked with aretha franklin, we called her the queen of soul. i called whitney the princess of

soul. but she was so powerful, i don't think any of us had seen the like of her before. >> that's the sadness here, isn't it? her music, yes, it will live on, but we may never see a singer that had the range and the power of whitney houston. >> on "the bodyguard" the song i produced was "i'm every woman." whitney was nine months pregnant sing like that. and she wanted to make sure all the harmonies were as tight as shaka had done. and she was really, like, into it. and natalie cole had to come in and watch. it was a real love fest to record with her. >> how professional was she? you hear a lot about her divaish behavior. what was it like in reality? >> in reality, she was extremely busy. had to go here, had to go there. especially in the heyday when so much was happening. so my trick with her in making the second album, whitney gave me three hours from 4:00 to,

say, 7:00. and record the verse, record the bridge, record the choruses. give me flash here. okay, three hours, go. i would stay all night and comp the very best part with all the little breaths. so when she came the next day i would say sit down, listen to this. pow! it's a smash. all you have to do is fix this little part, that little part it's done. okay! it wasn't like it was torture. it was always inspiring. >> do you think the pressure of being whitney houston just became too much? >> i think it's intense. most people, hardly anyone can ever understand. to be a superstar is incredible pressure. and also in our country, i'm going to speak about this, america. we have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. i don't sense it when i go to europe or i go to japan. >> britain can be rough, too. i've gone to the media there and it can be equally rough. in terms of her voice a few people have said to me, the real problem for whitney was the

realization she would never sing at the heights that she did when she was recording with you again. >> i don't believe that. i think that shaka was right saying that she may have had polyp or two and needed to stop smoking because that will hurt you. but i was of the faith that whitney would come back powerful. in fact, my last time seeing her, she was saying "love is my game" it's a smash again. so i'm not so sure i believe that. >> when you heard she died, what was your emotion? >> i was in a bathtub, way up in northern california on a little transistor radio they said whitney had died. i couldn't believe it. i had to listen through ugh songs to make sure it was right. and it was right. do you feel it's a wasted life but did you feel it was a short but brilliant life? >> short but brilliant. what whitney accomplished will never be accomplished. she's the most famous person on

the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. so i'm very happy that i can sit here and say i had a chance to know her, and i'm still dazed that she's gone but she lives because her music is so powerful. >> indeed it does. when we come back, the little girl who grew up singing whitney houston songs in the mirror and became a superstar herself and paid the ultimate tribute to her hero. food, meet flavor. flavor, meet food. introducing swanson flavor boost. concentrated broth in easy to use packets. mix it into skillet dishes, for an instant dose of... hell-o! [ female announcer ] new swanson flavor boost. [ zipper, heavy breathing ] ♪ [ male announcer ] linens and duvet washed fresh for every guest.

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>> she's going to be extraordinarily missed. there are three, four musical i consequence of jersey. frank sinatra, count basey, bruce springsteen and whitney houston. they were the four musical icons

of our country that came out of the state of new jersey. i'm going to miss her as a talent and i'm going to miss her as a neighbor. >> the new jersey governor kris christie talking to my crew a little while ago. now tonight only in america, a childhood dream and a tribute to an all american hero. whitney houston has the number one song on itune tonight. it's the song that took her from star to worldwide diva. her version of a dolly parton song "i will all love." ♪ i hope life treats you kind ♪ and i hope you have all you dreamed of ♪ ♪ and i wish joy and happiness but above all this ♪ ♪ i wish you love >> millions of people have sung along with that, along with a little girl who grew up to be a

star herself. listen to what jennifer hudson said one day before her death. >> i would make up duets alongside whitney houston's "i will always love you." >> she said it was the greatest honor of my life to be able to pay tribute to whitney's memory. i haven't stopped crying since she passed. her family is in my prayers. we now have her emotional tribute to her heroin. ♪ i will always love you