{"id":514797,"date":"2026-06-23T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514797\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:56:10","slug":"oprah-says-whitney-houston-fell-on-her-show-while-high-begged-audience-not-to-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514797\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Says Whitney Houston Fell on Her Show While High, Begged Audience Not to Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Oprah on Whitney Houston<br \/>\n                          Fell Off My Stage While High &#8230;<br \/>\n                          I Helped Keep It Secret To Not Ruin Her Life<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              June 23, 2026<br \/>\n                            7:35 AM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                                                                Updated<br \/>\n                                  June 23, 2026<br \/>\n                                10:10 AM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260623_d792862b5fda4186a6286a529b0eec76\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:4983e2ae-2f8f-44ac-8f69-465ddedf8d99\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d792862b5fda4186a6286a529b0eec76_md.jpg\" alt=\"oprah and whitney houston getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/oprah-winfrey\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a> swears she stopped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/whitney-houston\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whitney Houston<\/a>&#8216;s life from being ruined when she prevented photos of Whitney falling off her stage while high on drugs from leaking to the media &#8230; but, the opposite may be true.<\/p>\n<p>      Oprah Winfrey reveals Whitney Houston once fell off the stage while performing on her show, but she asked the audience not to tell the media about it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I begged them not to put those pictures out, because it would ruin her life. And they did not.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ATri84hsLn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ATri84hsLn<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@Variety<\/a>\n          <\/p>\n<p>Oprah revealed the cover up while at France&#8217;s Lumi\u00e8re Theatre to receive Cannes&#8217; LionHeart Award &#8230; saying the last time Whitney was on her show, she had just relapsed &#8230; and she was so high, she fell off the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Oprah says she begged her audience not to tell anyone &#8220;because it would ruin her life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The audience that day had cameras, so there are pictures of the fall &#8230; and yet, not one has seen the light of day &#8230; a feat Oprah noted would never happen in this day and age.<\/p>\n<p>Whitney died in February 2012 at 48 after an accidental drowning.<\/p>\n<p>While Oprah feels she did a good deed here and helped Whitney &#8230; it&#8217;s fair to wonder if Whitney would have been better served if the photos and story came out. She would have hit rock bottom and might have turned her life around.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oprah on Whitney Houston Fell Off My Stage While High &#8230; I Helped Keep It Secret To Not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,43,112,2510,4526],"class_list":["post-514797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}