Last year, just a day before the 54th Grammy Awards, the world lost one of the greatest voices in music, multi-platinum selling artist Whitney Houston. February 11, 2013 will mark the one year anniversary of the tragic and untimely death of the iconic singer who was found unconscious in a bath tub on the night of Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party. A toxicology report later confirmed that drugs were in her system. Still struggling to cope with her daughter's death, Cissy Houston wonders "Could I have saved her somehow?" in a new tell-all memoir.
In the book, titled "Remember Whitney," Cissy talks about her daughter's drug-related death, rumors that she was a lesbian and her tumultuous marriage to RnB singer Bobby Brown.
"I'm angry she died alone, in those conditions," writes Cissy, according to People magazine. "She started partying and she didn't really know how to stop. I used to wonder what she was doing at night, where she was."
Cissy denied the rumors that Whitney had a secret love affair with her executive assistant and creative director Robyn Crawford. "I just didn't want her with my daughter. I know nothing about a romantic relationship. That's what everybody said but they didn't know either," she writes.
The 79-year-old Gospel singer also addressed Whitney's fourteen year marriage to Bobby Brown writing, "I blame him for the way he treated her, but I don't blame him for her drug problems." Still, she adds: "He was no help to her at all."
"Remembering Whitney" hits shelves on Jan. 29 and Cissy is scheduled to do a sit down interview with Oprah Winfrey on Jan. 28 on "Oprah's Next Chapter."
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