Here is the Whitney Houston Oprah video of the interview with the music legend on The Oprah Winfrey Show, plus transcript. The Sept. 14 and Sept. 15, 2009 highly anticipated tell-all interview was broadcast over two days and took place in New York City at Town Hall. See also her stirring rendition of I Didn’t Know My Own Strength, as performed on the show.

As seen in the videos Whitney Houston discusses in vivid detail her drug abuse, her marriage with R&B singer Bobbie Brown (whom she married in 1992 and divorced in 2007) with whom she shared that she felt a “crazy love” and that he was “her drug.”

She said of him: “I didn’t do anything without him. I wasn’t getting high by myself. It was me and him together, and we were partners, and that’s what my high was — him. He and I being together, and whatever we did, we did it together. No matter what, we did it together.”

She went on to note that her international fame had a negative impact on the marriage: “Something happens to a man when a woman has that much fame. I tried to play down all the time. I used to say, ‘I’m Mrs. Brown, don’t call me Houston.’ ” She goes on to described in vivid detail scenes of physical and emotional violence.

A particularly riveting moment in the Whitney Houston Oprah interview comes when the talk show host quotes from an L.A. Times article” “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.”

To which Whitney Houston said: “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.”

More background here:

• Whitney Houston Oprah Winfrey Interview Transcript
• Whitney Houston, on Oprah, Tries for Candor
• Whitney Houston Tells Oprah Bobby Brown Was Her ‘Drug’

The full interview video, part 1 and part 2 from Sept. 14 and Sept. 15 along with the performance are below.

Whitney Houston Oprah Video – September 14, 2009 Interview part 1

Video Link – Interview Part 2 – Sept. 15, 2009



Video Link: Live Performance Whitney Houston I Didn’t Know My Own Strength

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