too. and something we saw pretty fun today, we were at the baptist church of newark where whitney houston's funeral will be, we saw a sign that said a budget, god's way. perhaps that will help us solve the budget crisis. we will talk about that with lindsey graham. have a great night, happy valentine's day. here is "piers morgan tonight." david foster and kenny baby face edmunds and why whitney's voice wasn't what it used to be. and was whitney's fame simply too much for her to bear. >> fame itself is an addictive drug and it creates an image you cannot live up to. >> deepak chopra, was hollywood to blame?

and only in america, a proper homestead farewell for whitney houston. this is "piers morgan tonight." >> good evening, whitney houston's family preparing to say their final good-byes. we're looking at the new hope baptist church in newark, new jersey. gospel singer and pastor marvin winans asked to give the eulogy and plans to have a jumbo tron outside the church so fans can watch the service. coming up tonight, i'll talk to those closest to the superstar diva. and crisis in the middle east. we'll ask a top member of israeli government. >> they would like to revive the persian empire, take control of the oil fields. it was in the middle east and to have a nuclear bomb. >> we begin with our big story, the latest on whitney houston's tragic death. i'll bring you don lemon, covering the story from los

angeles where whitney died on saturday night. he has the latest on the investigation. you've been with us from the start, endless twists and turns but i understand you spoke to the coroner today. what did he tell you? >> i did, piers. i want to be very specific about what the coroner said because he really warned everyone about the rumors that are out there. there are lots of rumors out there. one i want to point out. he's getting calls from all over the world, one of which includes the dea is joining this investigation with the coroner because prescription drug meds are killing celebrities in los angeles. and he said that is simply not true. that is out there. another thing that he wanted to talk about that i asked him about, you know the whole thing about the pharmacist involved with the michael jackson case, i asked him about that, he said, listen, don, we're looking into all of this. we're still investigating. he said we're trying to find medical records which i think is interesting. and we're trying to find out who her doctor is they can get more

information. he diabedn't deny it, but he dit want to address it in that manner. he said they're still investigating. other thing, piers, we talked about that six to eight-week timeline for the toxicology reports, when i talked to the coroner today, i said, listen, i know you know sooner, maybe within a couple of days, piers, he said, again, i'm looking down at my notes, i don't want to get it wrong or fuel any rumors, he said sometimes we get preliminary spikes, maybe forbe a drug or prescription medication. he said the first series they run is for depressants and amphetamines. they want to make sure they're not getting a midol or some sort of over the counter medication. if they get a spike, they check and recheck to make sure even if it is in the person's body,ing it in her body, it doesn't mean there was enough in her body to kill her. they check it against her body weight and everything else,

piers. >> finally, lots of reports about bobby brown, whether he's seen his daughter bobbi kristina yet, whether he'll be invited to the funeral, some reports that the family doesn't want him there. what do you know about that? >> i knee bobby released a statement from his representatives saying that my daughter did visit the doctors at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles on saturday. he goes on to say that the death of her mother is affecting her and then he said she's with her family and we ask for your privacy. you see the full statement on your screen. but there are reports he hasn't seen her. and so cnn is working, calling his representative now to try to figure out what is going on. i know you're huge on social media, twit and facebook. if you go on your social media account and look out there, people are upset. many fans are upset about this private ceremony. they want something very public. they want something like michael jackson and the staples center.

and they feel robbed. >> thanks for bringing us up to speed on that and we'll address some of the subjects now with one of whitney houston's old friends, diane warren. she was at the party after whitney died and joins me now. i can hear you reacting to some of the things that don lemon was saying there. what were you reacting to? >> the fans being robbed. that's up to her family to do what they're going to do. that was strange. >> do you think there is any duty if you have a star of the magnitude of a whitney houston to give the fans something? >> she gave the fans something. she gave them her amazing music, her amazing voice, her records that will be there forever. the best performances of all time. what else can she give? she gave everything? she's done giving. >> when did you hear the news of whitney's death? >> saturday.

i didn't think it was true. it was all the twitter things, they're pronouncing someone dead on there. last week it was cher, jon bon jovi. i thought i was with a friend of mine who got the call and i was, like, i said, no, it is probably some kind of twitter stupidity and it wasn't. it was, like, i'm still in shock. you're saying all this stuff and hearing all this stuff, and it doesn't seem real. >> you wrote some of her greatest ever songs. >> i wrote -- i don't know if they were greatest ever. but they were good ones. >> tell me some of them. >> well, i wrote her comeback song, i'm sorry, i did it on my own strength on her last album and one called i learned from the best. there were a bunch of songs, like seven songs i've written for her. >> when you look at what happened to whitney, the picture that is being painted is of this brilliantly talented young woman who fell victim to fame, to hollywood, possibly bobby brown and the marriage wasn't helpful either. what do you think, knowing as

you did, what do you think? >> i wasn't around her all the time. i don't know, but i just think that's -- that happens. fame is dangerous. that level of fame, that level -- it is hard. there is so many -- if you have a predilection to be addicted to anything, it is the worst thing that can happen to you. you're going to maybe feel lonely and go to that or people are going to give -- want to get close to you so they'll give you drugs. it is hard to escape that. you have to be very strong. it is like you're singing to, you know, to 50,000 people and then none of these people really know you. >> how did she seem to you, whitney? >> when i see her, she's a very up person. she's full of life. that's why this is so weird. she's so full of life, you can't imagine her not being alive. >> the coroner is sort of mocking of people saying prescription drugs are killing celebrities in los angeles. i have to say, from where i've been sitting for the last year, they are. it is the mixture of

prescription drugs with alcohol or whatever or bad doctoring, whatever it is, but there is no doubt michael jackson and whitney houston would still be alive if they weren't falling victim. >> there is always going to be a doctor. >> there are always doctors prepared to cross the line and do this. >> there probably are. i'm sure it is easier when you're a famous person. no one wants to say no to you when you're famous. that's the bad thing about it. >> the thing that angers me, i think, i came out interviewing chaka khan, really intense emotional interview last night, because she had been an addict, knew whitney. let's play a clip so we can reacquaint ourselves with what she said. >> i stand on it. whoever flew her out to perform at that party should have provided someone to be there, to somehow look -- just keep the riffraff out of the situation, just keep some of the dangerous

people away. >> the more i thought about what she said there, i listened to dr. drew erupting in anger earlier on and i understood why because the reality is if you've been an addict, you remain an addict. you might be in recovery. some of the people she was hanging around with had been popping up on television saying she was only having a few glasses of champagne. >> can't do that -- you can't have a glass of champagne. >> how stupid can you be to think that you can let an addict have a few glasses of champagne when she's taking loads of prescription drugs. >> what can you do? she'll go somewhere -- i don't know. >> i think what you do is -- >> you want to save them. >> you have to take responsibility. as chaka khan said, somebody flew whitney houston in, somebody planned to have a week in los angeles, building up to the grammys. >> should have kept her -- don't go to this club, don't do that. >> who is looking after her? everyone now in hindsight is talking in this sort of, wasn't

whitney fantastic. she was let down by people. i don't know who they were. but people letting her down, all this week. she was out partying, partying, partying. >> she wasn't going to listen to them. maybe she's like i don't care what you say, i'm going out to party. what do you do? you can't lock her in a room. >> is it right to apportion blame. >> i don't think you can blame them. she came to a party. how can you blame them for -- i mean, too bad she went there, right? too bad someone didn't say whitney you can't go, i can't really judge that, you know. but i wish -- i wish, you know, that she didn't go or she had a change of heart and didn't want to go out. if she went out, didn't -- we don't really know. we don't really know what happened. >> we know she went out on thursday night and was performing. she was drink champagne all night. she's an addict. i don't know what people around her were thinking. an addict can just take all this stuff and mix it with alcohol. that's where the transcription

drugs in her case probably killed her. we don't know. we have to wait. >> it is a deadly combination. >> i think it just -- no one seems to be holding their hands up to say we got this wrong. >> it is hard. >> do you feel she was so strong willed that you could imagine -- >> she seemed pretty strong willed. i was in the studio with her -- >> chaka khan was here, can you imagine she just would instinctively rail against anyone who would tell her what to do? >> i have a feeling she did what she wanted to do in working with her. you can't go party, i don't care what you say, i'm going to party. i can see that. i've never gone out partying with her. i could see that in her personality. >> you were at the clive davis party. >> yeah. >> chaka khan didn't go and thought it was tasteless to continue with it. what did you feel? >> you know, it was weird, yeah. it was strange.

the whole -- it was strange to be there because all i kept thinking personally was that her body is on the fourth floor. i just sat at my table -- i don't drink much, but i kept saying more wine, please. but maybe it was -- if it was me, i would have probably canceled. i don't know what that entailed. maybe there was -- >> i think it was very hard for clive davis. i wouldn't criticize him at all. >> i'm not criticizing clive. >> chaka khan felt strongly about it. i feel that he -- >> i think if he would have, he could have. if he could have, he would have. but he was devastated. i went to his hotel before the party. that man was devastated. how he pulled that together to be that strong, i mean, that amazed me. >> stay for a moment. let's take a break and come back and talk further with you and also with deepak chopra. i want to talk about celebrities and prescription drugs, which may be a hell of a lot more dangerous than people think they are and a lot more dangerous than many street drugs. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil

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may not be to blame for whitney houston. i feel like chaka khan did, for an addict to be dragged around the hollywood night spots before the grammys and seen openly drinking with champagne and stuff seemed to me to be utterly responsible for anyone who had known her background. i would say to twitter, to be fair, two out of every five are saying i'm right. three out of every five don't agree and think self-responsibility is the key and whitney is to blame. what do you think? >> it's very complicated. once you're an addict, you're always an addict and very difficult to control your substance abuse. the fact is that when you mix alcohol with prescription drugs, tranquilizers, sedatives, it can be a very dangerous combination and the fact medical prescriptions now are the number one cause of drug addiction.

the number one cause of drug addiction is no longer street drugs, medically prescribed drugs, tranquilizers, painkillers and so on. this is a problem. you have high performance artists under a lot of stress, a lot of them have addictive tendencies and then you have enabling doctors who get their identity from celebrity associations, they're addicted to the celebrity. it's very difficult to control the situation. >> we're losing a lot of incredibly talented people. michael jackson, amy winehouse, now, whitney houston. none of them lived past 50. >> so many people, yes. particularly in the music industry, there seems to be a particularly proneness to addictive behavior. >> let me ask diane about that. i will ask diane. when you've been written for these big stars, do you see them

change? when they become fabulously famous, rich, successful, start getting into this whole drug scene, legal and illegal, do you see a change in them? >> i don't usually hang out with the artists i work with, i don't really see that. i see them change in different ways. i see the people. i see a lot of hangers on come around them and when they would come the first time in this studio, next time their five minders and all -- you know what i mean? that is kind of dangerous. what happens is you surround yourself with a bunch of yes people and a bunch of people that want like what deepak said, they get their identity from celebrities. >> i think that's a very good point. they become like blood sucking leaches. they get their own celebrity status by being around the celebrity. it's not in their interest to

say no to the star. >> it's co-dependent addictive relationship. you have doctors that are known as concierge doctors, boutique doctors, pill mills owned by doctors and drug suppliers. so -- you have the same person getting prescriptions from multiple doctors, pharmacists usually know that the same person is getting from the prescription from multiple doctors but they ignore it very frequently. it should be something very easy to monitor. every time a narcotic is dispensed or sedative or tranquilizer, there is a record for it, yet people still have this problem. >> we don't know enough facts yet about the whitney houston case. the only thing we know as a fact is that she was a self-confessed drug addict. is that really angers me about what we saw this week. this was a public meltdown going on.

she was being seen coming out of clubs apparently with blood on her legs, we don't know it was blood, it may have been red wine, as some people were saying, it was an unedifying spectacle, whatever it was. when i saw some of the people she was partying with glibly say, oh, yeah, she was drinking champagne but she was fine. massive alarm bells should have rung, shouldn't it? >> yes. if somebody is a self-confessed addict who previously had problems, the correct thing to do by responsible people do is an intervention. again, as said just now, enablers are yes people. they don't like to say no to somebody who's rich or perceived as powerful or famous. fame itself is an addiction, too. you have lots of addictive behavior going on. addiction from the doctors addicted to the celebrity. fame as an addiction by itself. you have co-dependent disfunctional relationships that

initiate per pet tu it an and continue the problem. you don't have responsible people in this situation. if somebody had seen that behavior which you just showed, there should have been an intervention, yes. >> i agree. diane. >> i agree. some people don't know enough to know that -- they might think it's okay for them to have a glass of wine when you're an addict. she's not doing crack or coke. what's wrong with a glass of wine? a lot of people don't know that. >> deepak, you mentioned the fame itself is a drug. i totally concur. i have seen people wreck their lives to this addiction of being famous. it totally wrecks their lives. you have seen that, i know, for other people. what is the cure for that? how do you treat an addiction to fame? >> you have to realize that fame actually causes the same brain chemical changes as a drug does. you have to have counseling for

a situation like that. it's very difficult. i have a rehab center, we have a rehab center in paradise valley in british columbia, where we counsel people and also detox them emotionally and physically through various procedures, teach them meditation, yoga, breathing techniques, cognitive therapy and even then it's quite difficult. >> finally, i know you've been working with demi moore, one of my favorite actresses. she came on my show last year. i was devastated to see she's having to have treatment. how is she doing? >> piers, i'm not at liberty to talk about that right now. >> okay. fair enough. send her my very best. we hope she's back in top form soon. deepak chopra and diane warren, thank you very much. when we come back, i'll talk with two music legends that

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♪ so good-bye please don't cry ♪ >> whitney houston singing "i'll always love you" based on the movie "the bodyguard." it's hard to forget that amazing voice but it faded. >> and the producer who produced that song and kenny "baby face." welcome to you both. my condolences. i have everyone on here. i don't say that enough. you new whitney real welch better than i did. and i'm sure grief is what you're experiencing this week more than anything else. >> i was saying to kenny, i knew her professionally, not so much as a friend. kenny was a real friend to her. maybe he has a different take. >> you guys between you produced some of their biggest songs and successes. you heard the debate with diane and deepak chopra. who is to blame when you lose a

person of that quality at 48 years old, let's put it like that, to a drug related downfall, who's to blame? what do you think? >> who's to blame when it's just somebody we don't know. if you don't know she wasn't a star before, most of the time you don't blame it on that person, you don't blame their family or people around them that weren't there. for the most part, it has to come to her. unfortunately, i don't like to say it's her fault, a whole life thing in terms of whatever she was dealing with and things she was carrying with her through her life that put her in that position. >> when you worked with her, were you aware of all these struggles she was going through? >> i think any singer that sings as amazing as she sung, when you have a certain pain that you can touch people, you're carrying a pain, it could be from childhood, something that helps

make it great, it's something that you can't manufacture it, i don't care how many people would sing "i'll always love you," they would never do it that way. when she sang that song, she nailed it. that was it. no one will ever do this again. >> that's true. no one could sing it like whitney. >> she owned it. like i say about her. she was like a laser beam. during that time we made that song and the other songs i did for "the bodyguard" and kenny did, too she's be working 12 hours a day and come into the studio and rip off her coat and sing like -- >> what happened? >> i don't know what her life was like before clive discovered her. she had demons for sure. i do disagree. i said on the break, i think everybody is responsible for themselves on a much lower, lesser scale, we're all sort of -- i saw those chocolate chip cookies there in, i would love

to eat every last one of them. i know if i do that everyday i will be fat. so you just -- you know, i don't mean to simplify addiction, food is an addiction, too. >> i said on twitter, if you want to tell me what you think, send me your views now. there's definitely more people agreeing with what you're both saying, the responsibility should start with whitney. my issue isn't so much who was to blame for her drug problems, i don't like what was happening last week. i don't like the fact one of the world's most famous drug addicts is out in hollywood night clubs boozing the night away and nobody is trying to stop her. >> if you were out in a hollywood nightclub thursday night and i saw you and you were drunk out of your mind whatever it was, would you blame the guys with you? i blame you. >> i'm not an addict and no one knows i've never been an addict, i never have been. no one would know that. >> if you were dnk out of your mind, would it be somebody else's responsibility. >> anyone can get drunk but if

you were a well chronicled addict who's been to hell and back with this addiction, is there nobody in the whitney system? >> whitney was very strong-willed. she will too what she's going to do. >> i keep being told that. she wouldn't have listened anyway. >> she obviously didn't listen, would do what she was going to do. >> that's what i always said about singing in the studio, i ask her to give me a lick or note and always give me something i would ask for. the great thing it was usually better than anything i could ask for. >> her instinctive reaction is to rail against what you wanted. >> to take some direction. >> you can't have conversations with people when they're stars about some things. i sat down with a new artist i'm thinking about signing. i got a video camera. i said, i want to tell you a few things and i want to tell you this because in two years if you become a star, i won't be able to have this conversation with you so i'm videotaping you now

so i can show it to you in two years. >> how much is ego and how much is paranoia and insecurity and all those things that comes with making it big in the movie business. >> stardom is so intoxicating. you guys both probably know, you can't go anywhere without anybody saying, i love your show. >> it's a totally different thing with that kind of recognition to superstar come to of michael jackson or whitney houston. they were on a different level even to most celebrities. i'm curious -- i detected in both of them serious vulnerabilities. what do you think? >> i think she was vulnerable. i don't know it was all about being a star. i think it goes to another place. the whitney i knew, it wasn't that she was loving being a star. she loved the music and loved performing. when it was time to do her thing, that was what pushed her. >> let's take a quick break. i want to talk specifically about her voice and what

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♪ >> whitney houston singing "i'm your baby tonight," produced by kenny requests baby face" edmonds and david foster. you said a fantastic thing. remember the soul train awards in the early '90s, when the audience turned on whitney a bit. tell me what happened. >> she had won another award and suddenly, there were boos in the audience when she won an award. she was shocked, what did i do? it was just one of those things, free blog time, people were tired of her winning things. >> how did she react to that afterwards? >> we talked about it later the first time i visited her at her house, she was like, i can't let that happen. she didn't like that. she didn't like being unliked,

especially not knowing the reason. she was just -- she was just doing a normal thing. >> then things got worse for her, i think, just observing from the outside, what it must be like, we talked about this with chaka khan last night, when a singer who's that good suddenly becomes not quite as good at singing and their voice slightly goes. what do you think? i have seen you quoted as saying, that may have been part of her problem. >> it happens to every singer. nobody at 50 and 60 is what they were at 23 and why singers start doing songs at 30s and 40s and lower the key by a half tone and another half tone and two tones and by 55 or 60, you don't recognize it and the voice is a muscle. i think she had bad dna, just got the bad draw on the dna. i don't think it had a lot to do with whatever her other problems were. >> she had -- how good was her voice at its best?

>> better than anybody on the planet. >> literally? >> for me. would you say? >> had there ever been a better recording artist? >> i always say she was the best singer ever. >> i would put celine and tony bennett in my world. >> and others said i had never heard a better natural singing voice. >> herring -- her instincts were beyond anything. >> what i mentioned about the pain, she was able to make you feel her words. >> she was. >> part of that may be the gospel background she had, when you're singing in a gospel church regularly and stuff, it's very emotive. i saw that side to her definitely. you could see when she was a young singer. the footage is coming out now. when that goes, that instrument starts to go, what does it do to a singer? you worked with all the greats.

>> not even the voice. every artist has a span, seven or 10 years hitting it hard and heavy. if you looked since the '50s, you can pick any artist from glenn campbell to lionel richie and diana ross, boom, the hits stop and the next generation moves in. >> it must be desperately hard for some. >> not hard for everybody but some, sure. >> did you speak with whitney after things began to go with her voice, do you know how she felt about it? >> didn't really talk about it. >> dealt with it. >> was it the unmentionable? >> you made a record and made the best you could make. you wouldn't go for the higher notes as much. you would still push for what you could get out of it and that's the best you could do. it is a hard thing to deal with. i'm sure she had to deal with it. she didn't talk about it. i'm sure she had to deal with it, had to know it everyday.

but she still, you know, it's not like she stopped. she kept singing. >> kenny, kenny is a great singer. you can't hit the notes when you were 20. >> yeah, i can, what are you talking about? >> you can? whoops, commercial. >> are we making too much of whitney's problems? did most divas in history of problems, you think back to judy garland and all of them. they all had history in their lives. should it be something we focus on or celebrate as i instinctively begin to feel should we focus more on these incredible songs she sang. >> i think so. everyone has issues. we only are on it because she is a superstar. other than that, we really should be happy for what she gave us. >> she left a gift. she left the greatest gift in one of her songs. this music will live on forever and ever. >> i think it's very poignant and pertinent she will be eulogized in the church she

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israel is blaming iran after a series of bombs one day after attacks in georgia. one person is in custody and another still at large. and the possibility of attacks, the israeli government issues a travel security against a man arrested in january and planned attack in the country. joining me the vice prime minister, sisilvan, a tense time. what is your overview of the series of attacks in bangkok and other attacks? >> unfortunately, they have been trying for many many years to target israel sites and jewish sites. what they have done recently, something we are fully aware of their involvement.

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she was a friend and such an amazing, amazing artist. why does it take death for us to

appreciate folks? you know? you look at the charts today and whitney houston is number one everywhere. how come we can't wake up when she's healthy and wonderful and say, we're blessed by her, let's listen to her. >> that was lenny kravitz paying tribute to whitney houston. tonight, only in america, a farewell to a cherished style, jersey style. her funeral will be invitation only, as befit an international superstar. but her home state couldn't let it go without its own tribute to a favorite daughter. governor chris christie says he'll issue an executive order to have flags in the state fly at half-staff on the day of the funeral. >> whitney houston was -- was an important part of the fabric, cultural fabric of this state. and as i said, on the night of her passing, i think, you know, she belongs in the same category from a musical perspective in new jersey history with folks like frank sinatra and count

bassy and bruce springsteen. she was a cultural icon in this state. >> the funeral will take place at whitney's childhood church in newark. her fans have been leaving flowers all day. pastor joe carter says his congregation is hurting. he told cnn that voice is silenced, but she left us with so much. and that surely is the truth. some people have mocked the eulogies pouring in for whitney houston because of the drug related issues she suffered in her personal life. i ask this, how many people in modern entertainment history have brought as much joy to so many strangers' lives as whitney and her incredible vice? the answer is very, very few. she had a special, unique talent. and with her tragically early death, this is not the time to pour scorn on a woman who clearly found the road to superstardom impossible to handle. instead, let's acknowledge, remember and celebrate whitney houston's genius, never better heard than her defining performance of "i will always love you