The past two days on CBS at 4 pm ET, many eyes and minds were focused on the television screen as they watched Whitney Houston reveal the ups and downs of her life for the past umpteen amount of years but before we get into here are the highlights from parts 1 and 2 of the interview:

POINTS OF INTEREST

- Houston admits Bobby was jealous of her and she had to lower herself to make him feel bigger.
- The drug-use started in the years during The Bodyguard years but were used heavily beginning the The Preacher’s Wife era.
- One main reason why Whitney stayed with Bobby was she was determined to prove the public wrong and that he was simply her drug.
- Her preferred choice of drug was weed laced with cocaine.
- Houston would sit around in her house for weeks at a time in her pajamas.
- Bobby painted evil eyes on the walls and destroyed furniture.
- The final straw was when Brown spat in Houston’s face, cursed her out, pushed her up against the wall before being knocked out by a cordless phone.
- Houston’s mother entered the house with a court junction to get her daughter back.
- Bobby Kristina joined her mother at rehab as well as giving her mother the ‘OK’ to  divorce Brown.
- Houston states she is off drugs but admits there are days she still wants to use them.
- Houston performed “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength”.

Take notes aspiring journalists, that’s how an interview is done. Well a large part goes to Houston being 100% honest and forthcoming about all the details in her life.

It amazed us how open she was about everything; she smiled and laughed at some comments Oprah made when she could have easily taken them as insults. Everything was sincere, she answered every single question without beating around the bush and most of all she spoke with pride.

From that interview we see how strong of a person she is, how gracious she is and she truly is in a good place spiritually. It’s amazing and wonderful how she is such a great believer in God and that she remains optimistic towards the public after the many years of being frowned upon. She took full responsibility for her actions; she stayed and was loyal to Brown because she believed in those marriage vows to the fullest and thought they should not be broken.

What was probably the most fascinating part of the interview was not the revelation of drug-use or domestic abuse but Whitney’s down-to-earth personality. When Oprah asked Houston if she was scared of what Bobby had to say when he found out about the interview she cut her eye like “excuse me, who you talkin’ to”. That was priceless.

At the special request of Oprah, Whitney performed “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength”. First, we have to say that performance was so much better than what she did for Good Morning America. Remember she blamed being on Oprah for the sub-par performance. Houston was not lying because as the interview progressed you could hear she was losing her voice. Conveniently, the in-studio appearance with the audience members was about a week later from the one-on-one interview so she had time to heal her voice.

Back to the performance on Oprah, Houston’s voice is heavier but she sounds still sounds great. Now we’re going to inject some honesty that will probably upset a handful of people. The vocals that earned Houston the title of “THE VOICE” is no longer there. Like Proph stated, it’s easy to say she sounds a million times better than the current crop of artists in the industry today but that’s not the situation. The three biggest vocalists of a generation; Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion were so extraordinary that they were/are always compared to themselves. So to make an excuse just to fulfill a feeling of nostalgia does not make sense. Nonetheless Houston served a great performance and it seems she doing this because she really wants to now and not because she has to.

View the full interview…