NEWS: WHITNEY HOUSTON PASSES ON AT 48. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

It was a great shock to everyone as the news broke out Saturday evening, 11th Feb, 2012 that American musical icon, Whitney Houston had died at 3.55pm under unexplainable
circumstances, just a day to the 2012 Grammy Awards, which she was preparing to attend.
(this was about 12 midnite GMT , Sunday 12th Feb, 2012, in Nigeria)

Stories from media sources would later show that the singer was found underwater in her Beverly Hilton hotel room bath tub, few moments to her stepping out at the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Party, holding that evening in the same hotel.
Talks of a drowning possibility had been going on but recent news is that Whitney Houston may have died after consuming a cocktail of prescription drugs and alcohol, rather than drowning in the bath, but it will take medical examiners up to two months to determine for sure.

The singer's family were told by officials that she did not have enough water in her lungs to immediately conclude that drowning was the cause of death.  She had taken a combination of the sedative Xanax and other prescription drugs with alcohol, and could have died before her head went under the water.
Houston had drunk alcohol shortly before getting into the bath. Photographs of her room, obtained by TMZ, showed her final meal which included an opened Heineken can and an empty glass of champagne.
She had eaten a hamburger, then taken a turkey sandwich and jalapeno peppers on a tray with her into the bathroom, apparently intending to eat them in the bath.
A police source told celebrity website TMZ it was possible Houston suffered a heart attack caused by a reaction to medication, but it was too early to definitively decide what killed her.

Whitney and her daughter, Bobbi

On Friday night, less than 24 hours before Houston died, her daughter Bobbi Kristina, 18, reportedly fell asleep in a bath in another room on the same floor at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, and security had to be contacted to come and unlock the door.
Miss Brown has been hospitalised twice for "stress and anxiety" since her mother's death.
It also emerged that it was the singer's aunt Mary Jones who found her in room 434 the night before the Grammy Awards.  Jones had been laying out a dress for Houston to wear to a party that night. She left the suite for half an hour and returned to discover the singer still in the bathroom.
Los Angeles assistant chief coroner Ed Winter said it could take six to eight weeks for toxicology reports to determine exactly how the singer died.
He said said prescription bottles were found in the hotel room but they were all "pretty normal" prescriptions. He added: "I have more prescriptions than what was found in her room. I know there were reports of, did she drown or was it an overdose, but I will not be commenting on that."

Houston's brother-in-law Billy Watson vehemently denied that the singer would have had any intention of committing suicide.
He said: "Oh, no, this is accidental. She wouldn't have left her daughter like that. She wouldn't have done that to her daughter."
Police are questioning the singer's friends and relatives and staff to investigate her erratic behaviour in the days and weeks before she died, which included heavy drinking on the two nights before her death.
She was also known to have been at a Hollywood nightclub on Feb 2 where she drank cognac and champagne, and was described as a "total wreck."
Houston was one of the biggest selling music stars of the 1980s and 1990s, but her career collapsed amid use of crack cocaine and other drugs, spells in rehab, and a tumultuous 15-year marriage to the singer Bobby Brown.  At the Grammy Awards on Sunday night stars paid tribute to Houston, bowing their heads in a prayer for a "fallen sister."
Singer Jennifer Hudson performed an emotional tribute, singing a rendition of the late star's hit "I Will Always Love You," changing the words to "Whitney we will always love you." Stevie Wonder told the audience: "To Whitney up in heaven, we all love you."
Some of the pills found in Houston’s room were from prescriptions filled at the same pharmacy used by Michael Jackson. As well as Xanax, police also found amoxicillin, for sore throats, and Midol, for menstrual cramps, in Houston’s room.

Cissy Houston, Whitney's Mum (in middle)

The singer's mother Cissy Houston is arranging to take possession of her remains and a memorial service may be held this weekend. Houston’s body was being flown to New Jersey on the east coast by her family. Tyler Perry, the Hollywood movie mogul offered a private plane. A funeral is expected to be held there at the weekend.
The Rev Jesse Jackson, a close friend of the Houston family, said: “The mother is distraught. She is a woman of strong faith and she has wrestled with her daughter for a long time. She was under the impression that Whitney was coming out of it. She is completely stunned.”

Whitney Houston died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, on the eve of the 54th Grammys, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she was preparing to attend a pre-Grammy party. She was 48.