Editing Whitney Houston (section)

===Health===
During her marriage, Houston suffered several miscarriages, including one during the filming of ''The Bodyguard,''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bologna |first1=Caroline |date=October 19, 2017 |title=50 Celebrities Who Opened Up About Their Miscarriages |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/50-celebrities-who-opened-up-about-their-miscarriages_us_59de72a2e4b0fdad73b1b117 |access-date=February 3, 2018 |work=HuffPost}}</ref> another in July 1994,<ref name="Miscarriage">{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/249945be2439cac559c52391c2f3d867 |title=Whitney Houston Suffers Miscarriage |work=[[The Associated Press]] |date=July 13, 1994 |accessdate=May 17, 2023}}</ref> and another in December 1996.<ref name="third">{{cite web |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/whitney-miscarries-time-article-1.749097 |title=Whitney Miscarries Third Time |work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]] |location=New York |last1=Lewittes |first1=Michael |date=December 21, 1996 |access-date=March 3, 2018 |archive-date=March 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304172355/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/whitney-miscarries-time-article-1.749097 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

''Rolling Stone'' published a story in June 2000 stating that Cissy Houston and others had held a July 1999 intervention in which they unsuccessfully attempted to persuade Whitney to obtain drug treatment.<ref name="Dansby-20000607" />

In her 2019 memoirs, ''A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston'', Houston's longtime executive assistant and friend, [[Robyn Crawford]], said she departed from Houston's management company after Houston declined to seek help for her drug dependency; however, Houston claimed in an interview that the two friends parted ways over Houston's husband, Bobby Brown.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite news |last1=Caramanica |first1=Jon |date=November 7, 2019 |title=Whitney Houston's Confidante Robyn Crawford Breaks Her Silence |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/books/review/whitney-houston-robyn-crawford-book.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108003117/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/books/review/whitney-houston-robyn-crawford-book.html |archive-date=November 8, 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://people.com/music/whitney-houston-tried-cocaine-14-years-old-robyn-crawford-memoir/ |title=Whitney Houston First Tried Cocaine at 14 Years Old Says Best Friend Robyn Crawford in New Memoir |website=People |date=November 7, 2019 |access-date=September 7, 2021 |first=Liz |last=McNeil}}</ref><ref name="Sawyer-Houston-Interview-2002"/>

In September 2001, Houston's extremely thin appearance led to rumors about her health. Her publicist stated, "Whitney has been under stress due to family matters and when she is under stress she doesn't eat."<ref name="abcnews"/> In 2009, Houston acknowledged that drug use had been the reason for her weight loss in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|last=Winfrey|first= Oprah|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW_ytgwzkFQ|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200401113329/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW_ytgwzkFQ&gl=US&hl=en|archive-date=April 1, 2020|url-status=live|title=Remembering Whitney: The Oprah Winfrey Interview|publisher=Oprah Winfrey Network|access-date=December 25, 2017|format=video|date=September 2009}}</ref> 

In 2002, Houston gave an interview with [[Diane Sawyer]] to promote her upcoming album. During the interview, she addressed rumors of drug use, famously saying, "crack is wack". She admitted to using various substances but denied having an eating disorder.<ref name="Sawyer-Houston-Interview-2002"/>

In September 2009, Houston was interviewed by [[Oprah Winfrey]]. In the interview, she admitted to using drugs with Brown during their marriage and described her struggles with addiction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/whitney-tells-oprah-about-cocaine-pot-use-1c9403092|title=Whitney tells Oprah about cocaine, pot use|date=September 14, 2009|website=TODAY.com}}</ref> She told Winfrey that before ''[[The Bodyguard (1992 film)|The Bodyguard]]'' her drug use was light, that she used drugs more heavily after the film's success and the birth of her daughter and that by 1996 "[doing drugs] was an everyday thing ... I wasn't happy by that point in time. I was losing myself."<ref>{{cite news|first1=Nekesa Mumbi |last1=Moody|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/whitney-houston-pop-superstar-dies-at-48/article2335334/ |title=Whitney Houston, pop superstar, dies in Beverly Hills hotel|work=The Globe and Mail|date=February 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215072814/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/whitney-houston-pop-superstar-dies-at-48/article2335334/|archive-date=February 15, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Houston told Oprah that she had attended a 30-day rehabilitation program.<ref>{{cite web|last=Winfrey|first=Oprah|title=Remembering Whitney: The Oprah Winfrey Interview|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyApXLqzCCw|publisher=Oprah Winfrey Network|accessdate=December 25, 2017|format=video|date=September 2009|quote="I did my stint. You do your 30 days. I went to one where I could take my child with me. Everywhere I just had to have her with me. I wanted her to understand. I didn't lie to her. I couldn't."}}</ref> Houston also acknowledged to Oprah that her drug use had continued after rehabilitation, and that at one point, her mother obtained a court order and the assistance of law enforcement to press her into receiving further drug treatment.<ref>{{cite web|last=Winfrey|first=Oprah|title=Remembering Whitney: The Oprah Winfrey Interview|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyApXLqzCCw|publisher=Oprah Winfrey Network|accessdate=April 21, 2010|page=40:02 minutes|format=video|date=September 2009|quote="I see the love and the passion that my mother had for me and she walks in with these sheriffs and she says 'I have a court junction [sic] here. Either you do it my way or we're just not going to do this at all. We're going to go on TV and you're going to retire and say you're going to give this up. Because this is not worth it. It's not worth it. And if you move, Bobby [Brown], [these officers are] going to take you down. Don't you make one move. Let's go. Let's do this. I'm not losing you to the world. I'm not losing you to Satan. I want my daughter back. I'm not doing this. I want my daughter back. I want you back. I want to see that glow in your eyes, that light in your eyes. I want to see the child I raised. You weren't raised like this. And I'm not having it.'"}}</ref> Houston's mother recalled the incident in her 2013 book, ''Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped'', in which she came to visit her daughter's Alpharetta residence in 2005 discussing seeing the walls were "spray-painted" with "big glaring eyes and strange faces. Evil eyes, staring out like a threat", as well as noticing most of her daughter's head cut out of a big framed photo of the singer; Houston herself explained it in her Oprah interview.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/whitney-mom-recounts-singer-drug-article-1.1248861|author=Ginger Adams Otis|title=Cissy Houston details daughter Whitney's decline in new book|newspaper = Daily News|date=January 26, 2013|accessdate=December 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Houston |first1=Cissy |title=Remembering Whitney |date=2013 |page=232 |quote=Somebody had spray-painted the walls and door with big glaring eyes and strange faces. Evil eyes, staring out like a threat ... In another room there was a big framed photo of [Whitney] — but someone had cut [her] head out. It was beyond disturbing, seeing my daughter's face cut out like that.}}</ref> When Winfrey asked Houston if she was drug-free, Houston responded, "'Yes, ma’am. I mean, you know, don’t think I don’t have desires for it.'"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://parade.com/41668/parade/whitney-houston-staying-sober-one-day-at-a-time/|title=Whitney Houston Staying Sober 'One Day at a Time'|last=Parade|date=September 16, 2009|website=Parade}}</ref>

In May 2011, Houston enrolled in rehabilitation again due to drug and alcohol problems, which she stated was part of her "longstanding recovery process".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/05/whitney-houston-rehab-alcohol-drugs.html|title=Whitney Houston in outpatient rehab for alcohol, drugs|last=D'Zurilla|first=Christie|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 9, 2011|access-date=May 11, 2011}}</ref>