A new dispute has emerged over\u00a0Whitney Houston\u2019s\u00a0final appearance on\u00a0\u201cThe Oprah Winfrey Show.\u201d\u00a0The singer\u2019s estate is now pushing back against claims\u00a0Oprah Winfrey\u00a0recently made about what happened behind the scenes during that 2009 visit.<\/p>\n
The controversy began after Oprah spoke at the Cannes LionHeart Award ceremony in France and recalled an incident involving the late music icon. Her comments quickly made headlines and prompted a response from Whitney Houston\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
The Whitney Houston estate responds to Oprah Winfrey\u2019s claim about a stage fall during the singer\u2019s 2009 television appearance<\/p>\n
While accepting the Cannes LionHeart Award, Oprah reflected on her history with Whitney Houston and described what she said was the singer\u2019s final appearance on \u201cThe Oprah Winfrey Show.\u201d According to Oprah, Houston had relapsed at the time and fell off the stage before a performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had such trust from \u2018The Oprah Show\u2019 audience \u2026 I think it was [Houston\u2019s] last show with us, and she had gone back on drugs,\u201d Oprah said. \u201cThe first interview I did with her when we\u2019d gone behind the stage, and I asked her about her intention. She was clean, but the day she came to my show then to perform in front of the audience, she was not, and she fell off of the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oprah also claimed she asked audience members not to share photos from the incident because \u201cit would ruin her life.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Whitney Houston\u2019s estate strongly disputed that version of events. In a statement provided to\u00a0TMZ,<\/a>\u00a0Pat Houston,\u00a0who oversees the estate, said the singer did fall, but not under the circumstances Oprah described.<\/p>\n \u201cWhitney absolutely fell off the stage, but it was during a sound check, and it was due to the darkness of the area and her unfamiliarity with the stage. She was absolutely not high,\u201d Pat said.<\/p>\n Pat acknowledged Whitney\u2019s well-documented struggles with addiction but argued that it was unfair to connect those battles to every moment of her career.<\/p>\n \u201cLike many people, she faced personal battles, but it is inaccurate and unfair to attach that struggle to every performance or every chapter of her life,\u201d Pat continued. \u201cWhat the studio audience witnessed on stage was the result of discipline, talent, and commitment \u2014 not the assumptions others project.\u201d<\/p>\n She concluded with a defense of the late star\u2019s legacy, saying, \u201cWe owe her the dignity of telling the truth, not repeating myths.\u201d<\/p>\n Houston died in February 2012 at age 48 following an accidental drowning, but debate over her final years clearly remains a sensitive topic.<\/p>\n TELL US \u2013 WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE WHITNEY HOUSTON ESTATE\u2019S RESPONSE TO OPRAH WINFREY\u2019S COMMENTS?<\/p>\n The post Whitney Houston Estate Issues Statement on Oprah Winfrey Allegations<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new dispute has emerged over\u00a0Whitney Houston\u2019s\u00a0final appearance on\u00a0\u201cThe Oprah Winfrey Show.\u201d\u00a0The singer\u2019s estate is now pushing back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,124372,17572,6574],"class_list":["post-348708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-oprah-show","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-whitney-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}