Remembering Whitney: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss and the Night the Music Died

Remembering Whitney: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss and the Night the Music Died
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The definitive account of Whitney Houston’s astonishing life, ground-breaking career and tragic death – complete with never-before-seen photographs – from the only one who truly knows the story behind the headlines: her mother, Cissy Houston.Cissy has said little publicly about Whitney’s heart-breaking death. Now, for the first time, she opens up and shares the unbelievable story of her daughter’s life, as well as her own, and addresses Whitney’s brightest and darkest moments.A legendary Grammy Award-winning gospel singer in her own right, Cissy Houston shows how the lessons from her own musical journey helped to shape Whitney’s career – from teaching Whitney to use her voice, to keeping her level-headed throughout her meteoric rise to fame.With candour and respect, she sets the record straight about Whitney, exploring both her turbulent marriage and her misunderstood struggles with drug abuse. Cissy goes behind the tabloid headlines to show fans around the world the true, human side of a strong, successful – yet flawed – musical icon who died much too young.Includes a Foreword by Dionne Warwick.

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Cissy Houston. Remembering Whitney: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss and the Night the Music Died

Contents

Forewordby Dionne Warwick

PART ONE

CHAPTER 1. The Night the Music Stopped

CHAPTER 2. A Child of Newark

CHAPTER 3. The Gospel Truth

CHAPTER 4. Sweet Inspirations

CHAPTER 5. Life on Dodd Street

CHAPTER 6. Training the Voice

CHAPTER 7. Separation

PART TWO

CHAPTER 8. Enter Clive Davis

CHAPTER 9. Fame

CHAPTER 10. Welcome Home Heroes

CHAPTER 11. The Bodyguard … and Bobby Brown

CHAPTER 12 “I Never Asked for This Madness”

CHAPTER 13 “I Know Him So Well”

CHAPTER 14. A Very Bad Year

PART THREE

CHAPTER 15. Atlanta

CHAPTER 16. The Intervention

CHAPTER 17. The Comeback

CHAPTER 18 “I Look to You”

CHAPTER 19. Bringing My Daughter Home

Epilogue

Picture Section

Acknowledgments

Selected Cissy Houston Discography

Selected Whitney Houston Discography

About the Author

Copyright

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Title Page

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We were always so happy to have Mommy home, but after those hospital visits she usually needed relief from taking care of the three youngest children—Larry, Nicky, and me. So, during these times, Larry and Nicky were sent to stay with relatives who still lived near Court Street, and I got shipped off to Newark’s Ironbound section to stay with my aunt Juanita. I hated staying with Aunt Juanita, not only because I missed my brothers, but also because she was a mean, nasty woman. She wasn’t like my other relatives—she dipped snuff and was always trying to get a rise out of everybody. Every day I spent at Aunt Juanita’s, I prayed for my mother’s quick recovery.

When Mommy was feeling better, and we could all be at home again—those were the happiest times of my young life. But they lasted only until one terrible night in May 1941, when I was eight years old. That night, my mother began having seizures, and blood started pouring from her mouth and nose. Daddy and my older sisters tried desperately to stem her bleeding and comfort her, but the blood was still gushing out when the ambulance arrived. Mommy was rushed to the hospital as my brothers and I slept through it all, unaware that anything was happening.

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