{"id":348743,"date":"2026-06-24T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348743\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:36:11","slug":"whitney-houstons-estate-slams-oprahs-claim-she-fell-while-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348743\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Houston&#8217;s Estate Slams Oprah&#8217;s Claim She Fell While on Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/whitney_houston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whitney Houston<\/a>&#8216;s estate\u00a0has spoken\u00a0out\u00a0on\u00a0a\u00a0claim made against the late singer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/oprah_winfrey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a>\u00a0recalled an incident where the \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d hitmaker fell off stage during a performance on her talk show, alleging she was under the influence of drugs at the time, Whitney\u2019s estate executor\u00a0Pat Houston\u00a0slammed the accusation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whitney 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,\u201d Pat told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/23\/whitney-houstons-family-denies-oprahs-claims\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ<\/a>\u00a0in a statement June 23. \u201cShe was absolutely\u00a0not high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pat did, however, acknowledge the Grammy winner\u2019s past addiction struggles, which ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1363631\/inside-the-turmoil-of-whitney-houstons-shocking-death\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contributed to her death<\/a> following an accidental drowning in 2012. She was 48.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like 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 explained. \u201cWhat the studio audience witnessed on stage was the result of discipline, talent, and commitment\u2014not the assumptions others project.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whitney Houston&#8216;s estate\u00a0has spoken\u00a0out\u00a0on\u00a0a\u00a0claim made against the late singer.\u00a0 After\u00a0Oprah Winfrey\u00a0recalled an incident where the \u201cI Will Always&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-348743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348743","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=348743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}