Singer Whitney Houston was so strung out on crack cocaine that she didn’t change out of her pajamas for seven months. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Houston said she and ex-husband Bobby Brown were completely lost in drugs and their dysfunctional relationship. Her mother, Cissy, saved her life by dragging her to rehab, Houston said. “She said, ‘I’m not losing you to Satan.’”
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