OT: Oprah's season premiere today --- Whitney Houston! - Page 4

MESSicano · Sep 14th, 2009, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Libra

Now that part really make sense to me now! before I was like wtf??? is that? And she said that at every damn show lol.

And rotf @ Whitney schooling Oprah about drugs! But she admitted she didnt do crack, just weed laced with coke!

Imagine that scene which she described where she's in her room and she's high as hell and she's trying to read the bible???!!!

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Originally Posted by Piano_Man

samira.D · Sep 14th, 2009, 03:27 PM

no one has a youtube link please?

Libra · Sep 14th, 2009, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Piano_Man

i know. it's crazy to think about all the times she was probably high when we saw her on tv. she was probably high when she did that interview with wendy too lol.

She said she was in Florida having chicken wings during that interview. Who knows? But she would have cussed at her, high or not!

My take on her drugs is YES! it was good in the beginning; they made her feel good and their relationship was strong, sex was good!

: and she was determined to prove the public wrong about her marriage but as time went by she got lost. She didnt know what to do. She didnt want to admit her marriage was in tatters and at the same time Bobby was being an a$$hole towards her. It's like damn if she does it. damn if she doesnt. And drugs was her only solace.

Enter.The.Circus · Sep 14th, 2009, 03:32 PM

I do think though, she wasn't being as forthcoming about the abuse. First she said Bobby didn't hit her, then she said he slapped her but that was the only time. Then she said he pushed her and she hit him in the head with the phone.

Kunta*Kinte · Sep 14th, 2009, 03:32 PM

Now she need to get Bobbi Christina some much needed braces!

Libra · Sep 14th, 2009, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Enter.The.Circus

I do think though, she wasn't being as forthcoming about the abuse. First she said Bobby didn't hit her, then she said he slapped her but that was the only time. Then she said he pushed her and she hit him in the head with the phone.

I sense that she's very careful with her words regarding the violence. There were several hesitations on her part when she was asked. She still has a soft spot for Bobby but I dont think she's going back to him. Maybe she'll reveal more tomorrow. I just wonder what more is there to be said. But Oprah is the biggest scandal-monger in the business; she'll get more juicy stuff Im sure..

Piano_Man · Sep 14th, 2009, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Enter.The.Circus

I do think though, she wasn't being as forthcoming about the abuse. First she said Bobby didn't hit her, then she said he slapped her but that was the only time. Then she said he pushed her and she hit him in the head with the phone.

yeah, i think she lied about that too. i'm sure they went back and forth with it though, she mentioned she hit him too.

Libra · Sep 14th, 2009, 03:42 PM

And Whitney is now a trending topic on twitter lol.

On the whole, people sympathize with her

Manuel · Sep 14th, 2009, 03:42 PM

dmani forgot!! ima record the rerun tonight!

Enter.The.Circus · Sep 14th, 2009, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Libra

And Whitney is now a trending topic on twitter lol.

On the whole, people sympathize with her

It's funny 'cause it's going to keep trending for a while because of the syndication.

SkunKy · Sep 14th, 2009, 04:14 PM

is it online already?

Elroy Jetson · Sep 14th, 2009, 04:16 PM

I'm watching just now (West Coast) delay... wow she still likes Bobby doesn't she?`

Libra · Sep 14th, 2009, 04:28 PM

Transcript of the interview part 1: (Dont read if you wanna watch it)

Whitney Houston Tells All
Whitney Houston opens up to Oprah.

With more than 140 million albums sold worldwide, icon Whitney Houston is the most awarded woman in music history. Her powerful presence filled the screen in The Bodyguard, which made more than $400 million worldwide. The film's soundtrack remains the best-selling of all time. But behind her megastar success, Whitney hid the intense personal pain of her tumultuous 14-year marriage to R&B star Bobby Brown and a battle with drug abuse.

Whitney retreated from the spotlight after a controversial 2002 interview with Diane Sawyer.

In 2003, she faced more media attention after calling 911 to report that her husband hit her. The police report said Whitney had a bruised cheek and a cut inside her upper lip. Still, she refused to press charges. He was not convicted and has publicly denied ever hitting her.

The couple went public once again in 2005 on Bravo's reality show Being Bobby Brown.

Whitney has stayed silent about it all-until now. Back with her first album in seven years, I Look to You, she's sitting down with Oprah and opening up like never before about her past, present and bright future.

Oprah: The very first time I had you on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" ... There was a time, I read, where you were actually thinking in this past seven years-because you haven't done an album since 2002-that you were thinking of, I read, going to an island and having a fruit stand?

Whitney: Yeah. ... Growing organic fruit with my daughter on a little island on the beach and everything, living the simple life. You have to understand, I have been all around the world ... and I'd done it all at that point in time, or I thought. However, I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. ...

At that time in my life, I was going through such trauma. ... I thought that was enough for me. I had the money. I had the cars. I had the house. Had the husband. Had the kid. And none of it was really that fulfilling. For a time, I was happy. I was happy, but I needed that joy. I needed my joy back. I needed that peace that passes all understanding.

Oprah: There's a wonderful quote by the L.A. Times. They said, "The pain, and frankly, disgust that so many pop fans felt during Houston's decline was caused not so much by her personal distress as by her seemingly careless treatment of the national treasure that happened to reside within her." ... You were not like any of the others. You really were given the voice. You were given that treasure. And people felt, how could you not know that that was to be treasured?

Whitney: I knew in the days when I was a teenager singing for God. I was so sure. When I became "Whitney Houston" and all this other stuff that happened, my life became the world's. My privacy. My business. Who I was with. Who I married. And I was, like, that's not fair. I wanted to go to the park. I wanted to walk down the street with my husband, hand in hand, without somebody looking at us or having the media always in my business. ... I just wanted to be normal.

...

Oprah: It's so interesting that you would say that because for years I have thought that, in many ways, the Whitney Houston that we have seen has been a creation of the media. That obviously your voice and your talent is what it is. But the gowns, the hair, that first video, all of that stuff was a creation.

Whitney: Yes. ... I love to get dressed up and I love to do makeup and hair and stuff, but that was my performance. That was my entertainment.

Oprah: And then when you were expected to be that all the time?

Whitney: That was too much. ... Too much to try to live up to. Too much to try to be, you know? And I wanted out at some point.
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's wedding
Photo: AP/Wide World Photos

Oprah: Was marrying Bobby a way to be out?

Whitney: [Nods.] In a sense, because he allowed me to be me. He was fun. Passionate. Loving. It was crazy. We were crazy love.

Libra · Sep 14th, 2009, 04:29 PM

Oprah: But there were so many people who felt because the image had been painted. There you are in the gowns and the this and the red carpet. ... Was that strategic on your part?

Whitney: The princess marries the bad boy. ... It really wasn't. I was at the Soul Train awards show. He came on thestage singing My Prerogative. He was fly. He could move, man.

Oprah: Were you first interested in him or he interested in you?

Whitney: He was interested in me.

Oprah: Really. What did he say?

Whitney: Bobby was more like: "Hey, check this out, I want to ask you something, you know? If I was to ask you to go out with me, would you say yeah?" I said: "Yeah, I would. I certainly would." And then from that moment on, we clicked. We were friends. Three years we went out before we got married. Three years we dated. Jet-setted all over the world doing what we wanted to do.

Oprah: And the fact that everybody thought, "What is the princess doing with this guy?"

Whitney: They don't have any idea about that sweet, gentle tenderness about him that nobody knew. He was a very quiet person. When that entertainer came out onstage, he did that thing. But at home, he was very much the father. He was very much the man. He was very much in control. I liked that because I was in control of all my stuff, and here he comes along and everybody was like, "Wow, she's got somebody now." When he said something, I listened. I was very interested in having someone have that control over me. It was refreshing.

Oprah: It was refreshing because in every other aspect of your life-

Whitney: I was in control.

...

Oprah: Well, one of the things that I recall in an interview that you did with Diane Sawyer in 2002, the world was shocked when she asked you about addiction and you said if there was an addiction, it was an addiction to making love.

Whitney: Yes. We did a lot of that. Lots.

Oprah: When did it start to go wrong? Can there be too much passion?

Whitney: Yeah, it can clash. ... After The Bodyguard. 1993, 1994, 1995 were filled with The Bodyguard years. That album lasted me. It went for a long ways. I was on a whirlwind by that point in time. I was going everywhere. That record was so huge. So I had my baby.

I had my baby in my hands, and I had the man of my life that I loved so very much who I was crazy for with me. And he had just put everything aside of his own, and just said: "I'll go with you. Don't worry about it. Go do this thing." I think somewhere inside something happens to a man when a woman has that much control or has that much fame. ... If he doesn't have his own.

Oprah: Was he jealous of you?

Whitney: He's not going to like this, but yes.

Oprah: Then did you try to overcompensate?

Whitney: I tried to play down all the time. I did. I tried to play: "I'm Mrs. Brown, everybody. Don't call me Ms. Houston."

...

Oprah: You started to dim your own light?

Whitney: Yep. Sure did.

Oprah: Do you still worry about pleasing him?

Whitney: No. Not at all. There's things I could say. I won't. Trust me, there's some things I really could say that he would really be mad about.

He never liked the fact that people would say: "You're jealous of her. You're just jealous of her fame and her fortune and what she has" and everything, and he would get really pissed off. But it's not abnormal for a man to feel that way. Or to feel that he was lacking.
Whitney Houston discusses Being Bobby Brown.

Libra · Sep 14th, 2009, 04:30 PM

Oprah: Was that why you agreed to do [reality show] Being Bobby Brown?

Whitney: Yes, I did. I just wanted people to know that I was his wife.

Oprah: Did you realize what you were getting yourself into when you signed up for that?

Whitney: I did not. ... I knew when I signed my prenuptial, though. I knew what I was doing there. But, however, no, I didn't know. I was in love. I was crazy in love. It didn't matter to me.

Oprah: Did he come to you and say, "I'm going to be doing this show, and they're going to be putting cameras in our house"?

Whitney: Oh no, I didn't know. I really didn't know. Because to me, it was just like, "OK, I'm your wife. What do you want me to do?"

Oprah: Did you all watch the show?

Whitney: Sure.

Oprah: And what did you think?

Whitney: I didn't know quite what to think. I knew I was trying to be Mrs. Bobby Brown. That's what I was trying to do without overshadowing the whole situation, which was difficult.

Oprah: So you did that for him?

Whitney: Yeah, I did. I did it for him. I did it with him. How could you not do a reality show, and I'm your wife, and not have me in it?

Oprah: There were many critics of it, and I think one of them called it a train wreck. Do you think it highlighted the dysfunction between you?

Whitney: Yeah, I do. I sure do.

Oprah: A lot of people, I think, after seeing you on that show, started to really worry about you and what was really going on with you. What was going on with you at that time?

Whitney: There were a few things.

Oprah: Were you happy?

Whitney: No. ... I wasn't happy with the marriage. ... I was losing me into that by trying to be pleasing.

Oprah: Were you also trying to-because the world had said it wouldn't last six minutes-were you also trying to prove the world wrong?

Whitney: I was determined to prove them wrong. So determined. And after awhile, you start to lose what the real concept is of the love. And you want to make a statement.

I was trying to make a statement. Like: "You guys aren't gonna win. You're not going to do that. We got married. We were in love. We were crazy for each other. We're wanted to have a family. I'm just not going to let you do that to us. I'm just not." And so was he. He was determined. We fought for that. And then somehow it got really kind of messy and got lost up in there. And then we started doing other things that entered into the marriage that you just can't come out straight when you've got a lot of outside stuff going on.

Oprah: When did the drugs start?

Whitney: Before The Bodyguard it was very light. After The Bodyguard, I had Krissy, it started getting heavy.

Oprah: What was your drug of choice?

Whitney: Cocaine. And marijuana. That's it. But he liked to drink. I wasn't a drinker. The alcoholism, that's an ugly thing. Either you're going to be a really nice alcoholic or a really mean one. He was really mean.

Oprah: His personality would become altered when he drank?

Whitney: Oh, dramatically.

Oprah: Was he violent?

Whitney: He was afraid to do things with me because my family was very, very, like: "Okay, boy. Remember. We told you once." So it was like he would walk kind of away from it, but me, I would become a little girl. I would become this little girl, like, wouldn't say anything. ...

Emotionally, he was abusive. Physically, no way. Because first of all, I was raised with two boys, and I will fight you back. I will fight you back with anything I can find.

...

Oprah: So, he never touched you.

Whitney: No.

Oprah: Never laid his hands on you.

Whitney: He slapped me once, but he got hit over the head three times.

Oprah: By you?

Whitney: Yeah. Because I was, like, "Okay, you're going too far."

Oprah: What's the worst thing he ever said to you that you can share?

Whitney: I just remember this moment. It was his birthday, and I gave him a party at a club in Atlanta, Buckhead. He drank a lot that night. He drank a lot. And for some reason, everything that I did I tried to do to make him happy-it would turn on me. It was weird. Today, I understand it because people that alcoholics love, they try to abuse.

So when we got back to the house-he's going to hate that I say this-but he spit on me. And my daughter was coming down the stairs, and she saw it. That was pretty intense. Because I didn't grow up with that, and I didn't understand why that occurred. But he had such a hate in his eyes for me.

Because I loved him so much. He cursed me all the way home in front of his parents, and then he spit on me.

Oprah: How did you feel?

Whitney: I was horrified. He spit on me, in my face.

Oprah: Was that a turning point for you, or did you wake up the next morning and push that down or place that someplace in your psyche?

Whitney: I was very hurt. Very angry. And I knew somebody, somewhere, something was going to blow. I called a friend. I said, "Come get me now because it's at a turning point now," and I was almost two feet out the door at that point in time. I was ready to go.

And I asked [my friend] to come get me, and [Bobby] pushed me against the wall ... I was on the phone and I went back in and I took the phone and I hit him over the head with it. He just fell out on the floor. It was just drama. My daughter came down the stairs. She's, like, "Daddy?"

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Enter.The.Circus Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 36,921	I do think though, she wasn't being as forthcoming about the abuse. First she said Bobby didn't hit her, then she said he slapped her but that was the only time. Then she said he pushed her and she hit him in the head with the phone. __________________ . . . . . . . . . .Best of Christina Aguilera [Debut Era]

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Sep 14th, 2009, 04:28 PM	#58
Libra Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 30,727	Transcript of the interview part 1: (Dont read if you wanna watch it) Whitney Houston Tells All Whitney Houston opens up to Oprah. With more than 140 million albums sold worldwide, icon Whitney Houston is the most awarded woman in music history. Her powerful presence filled the screen in The Bodyguard, which made more than $400 million worldwide. The film's soundtrack remains the best-selling of all time. But behind her megastar success, Whitney hid the intense personal pain of her tumultuous 14-year marriage to R&B star Bobby Brown and a battle with drug abuse. Whitney retreated from the spotlight after a controversial 2002 interview with Diane Sawyer. In 2003, she faced more media attention after calling 911 to report that her husband hit her. The police report said Whitney had a bruised cheek and a cut inside her upper lip. Still, she refused to press charges. He was not convicted and has publicly denied ever hitting her. The couple went public once again in 2005 on Bravo's reality show Being Bobby Brown. Whitney has stayed silent about it all-until now. Back with her first album in seven years, I Look to You, she's sitting down with Oprah and opening up like never before about her past, present and bright future. Oprah: The very first time I had you on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" ... There was a time, I read, where you were actually thinking in this past seven years-because you haven't done an album since 2002-that you were thinking of, I read, going to an island and having a fruit stand? Whitney: Yeah. ... Growing organic fruit with my daughter on a little island on the beach and everything, living the simple life. You have to understand, I have been all around the world ... and I'd done it all at that point in time, or I thought. However, I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. ... At that time in my life, I was going through such trauma. ... I thought that was enough for me. I had the money. I had the cars. I had the house. Had the husband. Had the kid. And none of it was really that fulfilling. For a time, I was happy. I was happy, but I needed that joy. I needed my joy back. I needed that peace that passes all understanding. Oprah: There's a wonderful quote by the L.A. Times. They said, "The pain, and frankly, disgust that so many pop fans felt during Houston's decline was caused not so much by her personal distress as by her seemingly careless treatment of the national treasure that happened to reside within her." ... You were not like any of the others. You really were given the voice. You were given that treasure. And people felt, how could you not know that that was to be treasured? Whitney: I knew in the days when I was a teenager singing for God. I was so sure. When I became "Whitney Houston" and all this other stuff that happened, my life became the world's. My privacy. My business. Who I was with. Who I married. And I was, like, that's not fair. I wanted to go to the park. I wanted to walk down the street with my husband, hand in hand, without somebody looking at us or having the media always in my business. ... I just wanted to be normal. ... Oprah: It's so interesting that you would say that because for years I have thought that, in many ways, the Whitney Houston that we have seen has been a creation of the media. That obviously your voice and your talent is what it is. But the gowns, the hair, that first video, all of that stuff was a creation. Whitney: Yes. ... I love to get dressed up and I love to do makeup and hair and stuff, but that was my performance. That was my entertainment. Oprah: And then when you were expected to be that all the time? Whitney: That was too much. ... Too much to try to live up to. Too much to try to be, you know? And I wanted out at some point. Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's wedding Photo: AP/Wide World Photos Oprah: Was marrying Bobby a way to be out? Whitney: [Nods.] In a sense, because he allowed me to be me. He was fun. Passionate. Loving. It was crazy. We were crazy love. Last edited by Libra; Sep 14th, 2009 at 04:31 PM.

Sep 14th, 2009, 03:32 PM	#50
Kunta*Kinte Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 42	Now she need to get Bobbi Christina some much needed braces!

Sep 14th, 2009, 03:42 PM	#53
Libra Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 30,727	And Whitney is now a trending topic on twitter lol. On the whole, people sympathize with her

Sep 14th, 2009, 04:29 PM	#59
Libra Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 30,727	Oprah: But there were so many people who felt because the image had been painted. There you are in the gowns and the this and the red carpet. ... Was that strategic on your part? Whitney: The princess marries the bad boy. ... It really wasn't. I was at the Soul Train awards show. He came on thestage singing My Prerogative. He was fly. He could move, man. Oprah: Were you first interested in him or he interested in you? Whitney: He was interested in me. Oprah: Really. What did he say? Whitney: Bobby was more like: "Hey, check this out, I want to ask you something, you know? If I was to ask you to go out with me, would you say yeah?" I said: "Yeah, I would. I certainly would." And then from that moment on, we clicked. We were friends. Three years we went out before we got married. Three years we dated. Jet-setted all over the world doing what we wanted to do. Oprah: And the fact that everybody thought, "What is the princess doing with this guy?" Whitney: They don't have any idea about that sweet, gentle tenderness about him that nobody knew. He was a very quiet person. When that entertainer came out onstage, he did that thing. But at home, he was very much the father. He was very much the man. He was very much in control. I liked that because I was in control of all my stuff, and here he comes along and everybody was like, "Wow, she's got somebody now." When he said something, I listened. I was very interested in having someone have that control over me. It was refreshing. Oprah: It was refreshing because in every other aspect of your life- Whitney: I was in control. ... Oprah: Well, one of the things that I recall in an interview that you did with Diane Sawyer in 2002, the world was shocked when she asked you about addiction and you said if there was an addiction, it was an addiction to making love. Whitney: Yes. We did a lot of that. Lots. Oprah: When did it start to go wrong? Can there be too much passion? Whitney: Yeah, it can clash. ... After The Bodyguard. 1993, 1994, 1995 were filled with The Bodyguard years. That album lasted me. It went for a long ways. I was on a whirlwind by that point in time. I was going everywhere. That record was so huge. So I had my baby. I had my baby in my hands, and I had the man of my life that I loved so very much who I was crazy for with me. And he had just put everything aside of his own, and just said: "I'll go with you. Don't worry about it. Go do this thing." I think somewhere inside something happens to a man when a woman has that much control or has that much fame. ... If he doesn't have his own. Oprah: Was he jealous of you? Whitney: He's not going to like this, but yes. Oprah: Then did you try to overcompensate? Whitney: I tried to play down all the time. I did. I tried to play: "I'm Mrs. Brown, everybody. Don't call me Ms. Houston." ... Oprah: You started to dim your own light? Whitney: Yep. Sure did. Oprah: Do you still worry about pleasing him? Whitney: No. Not at all. There's things I could say. I won't. Trust me, there's some things I really could say that he would really be mad about. He never liked the fact that people would say: "You're jealous of her. You're just jealous of her fame and her fortune and what she has" and everything, and he would get really pissed off. But it's not abnormal for a man to feel that way. Or to feel that he was lacking. Whitney Houston discusses Being Bobby Brown.

Sep 14th, 2009, 04:30 PM	#60
Libra Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 30,727	Oprah: Was that why you agreed to do [reality show] Being Bobby Brown? Whitney: Yes, I did. I just wanted people to know that I was his wife. Oprah: Did you realize what you were getting yourself into when you signed up for that? Whitney: I did not. ... I knew when I signed my prenuptial, though. I knew what I was doing there. But, however, no, I didn't know. I was in love. I was crazy in love. It didn't matter to me. Oprah: Did he come to you and say, "I'm going to be doing this show, and they're going to be putting cameras in our house"? Whitney: Oh no, I didn't know. I really didn't know. Because to me, it was just like, "OK, I'm your wife. What do you want me to do?" Oprah: Did you all watch the show? Whitney: Sure. Oprah: And what did you think? Whitney: I didn't know quite what to think. I knew I was trying to be Mrs. Bobby Brown. That's what I was trying to do without overshadowing the whole situation, which was difficult. Oprah: So you did that for him? Whitney: Yeah, I did. I did it for him. I did it with him. How could you not do a reality show, and I'm your wife, and not have me in it? Oprah: There were many critics of it, and I think one of them called it a train wreck. Do you think it highlighted the dysfunction between you? Whitney: Yeah, I do. I sure do. Oprah: A lot of people, I think, after seeing you on that show, started to really worry about you and what was really going on with you. What was going on with you at that time? Whitney: There were a few things. Oprah: Were you happy? Whitney: No. ... I wasn't happy with the marriage. ... I was losing me into that by trying to be pleasing. Oprah: Were you also trying to-because the world had said it wouldn't last six minutes-were you also trying to prove the world wrong? Whitney: I was determined to prove them wrong. So determined. And after awhile, you start to lose what the real concept is of the love. And you want to make a statement. I was trying to make a statement. Like: "You guys aren't gonna win. You're not going to do that. We got married. We were in love. We were crazy for each other. We're wanted to have a family. I'm just not going to let you do that to us. I'm just not." And so was he. He was determined. We fought for that. And then somehow it got really kind of messy and got lost up in there. And then we started doing other things that entered into the marriage that you just can't come out straight when you've got a lot of outside stuff going on. Oprah: When did the drugs start? Whitney: Before The Bodyguard it was very light. After The Bodyguard, I had Krissy, it started getting heavy. Oprah: What was your drug of choice? Whitney: Cocaine. And marijuana. That's it. But he liked to drink. I wasn't a drinker. The alcoholism, that's an ugly thing. Either you're going to be a really nice alcoholic or a really mean one. He was really mean. Oprah: His personality would become altered when he drank? Whitney: Oh, dramatically. Oprah: Was he violent? Whitney: He was afraid to do things with me because my family was very, very, like: "Okay, boy. Remember. We told you once." So it was like he would walk kind of away from it, but me, I would become a little girl. I would become this little girl, like, wouldn't say anything. ... Emotionally, he was abusive. Physically, no way. Because first of all, I was raised with two boys, and I will fight you back. I will fight you back with anything I can find. ... Oprah: So, he never touched you. Whitney: No. Oprah: Never laid his hands on you. Whitney: He slapped me once, but he got hit over the head three times. Oprah: By you? Whitney: Yeah. Because I was, like, "Okay, you're going too far." Oprah: What's the worst thing he ever said to you that you can share? Whitney: I just remember this moment. It was his birthday, and I gave him a party at a club in Atlanta, Buckhead. He drank a lot that night. He drank a lot. And for some reason, everything that I did I tried to do to make him happy-it would turn on me. It was weird. Today, I understand it because people that alcoholics love, they try to abuse. So when we got back to the house-he's going to hate that I say this-but he spit on me. And my daughter was coming down the stairs, and she saw it. That was pretty intense. Because I didn't grow up with that, and I didn't understand why that occurred. But he had such a hate in his eyes for me. Because I loved him so much. He cursed me all the way home in front of his parents, and then he spit on me. Oprah: How did you feel? Whitney: I was horrified. He spit on me, in my face. Oprah: Was that a turning point for you, or did you wake up the next morning and push that down or place that someplace in your psyche? Whitney: I was very hurt. Very angry. And I knew somebody, somewhere, something was going to blow. I called a friend. I said, "Come get me now because it's at a turning point now," and I was almost two feet out the door at that point in time. I was ready to go. And I asked [my friend] to come get me, and [Bobby] pushed me against the wall ... I was on the phone and I went back in and I took the phone and I hit him over the head with it. He just fell out on the floor. It was just drama. My daughter came down the stairs. She's, like, "Daddy?"