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DISGRACELAND

Whitney Houston: Cracks in the Mirror, Crack on the Mirror, and One Fateful Choice

DISGRACELAND

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Music, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.613.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Whitney Houston was The Voice. A stunning beauty. An early MTV star and leading actress. But when she passed away in a hotel suite bath, the music industry gala downstairs that she was supposed to attend went on without her. How did it all come to this? The drugs and her husband Bobby Brown weren’t answers, just ways to avoid the question: what was the private tragedy of Whitney Houston?

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0:00.0

Hey, this goes Jake Brennan here. Listen to new episodes of Discrets Land from season

0:10.8

11 every Tuesday and catch the after party episodes every Thursday. This is where we go

0:16.1

deeper into the artist's stories. I'll share what I'm reading, listening to, and what

0:19.7

I'm watching, and I'll respond to your messages and questions, and of course, I'll be reading

0:23.2

the phone book.

0:24.2

You've probably realized that we're releasing a lot of previously exclusive episodes this

0:28.2

month. We've got episodes on Studio 54, Prince, the Missfits, Selena, way more that you've

0:32.9

probably never heard before. You can listen to all those episodes in a bunch more Discrets

0:36.4

Land right now wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, I Heart Radio, Spotify

0:41.3

Stitcher, Cast Box, Amazon Music, you get the picture where everywhere thank you for

0:45.0

listening.

0:46.0

Let's get into it.

0:47.5

Discrets Land is a production of Double Elvis.

0:58.8

The stories about Whitney Houston, America's sweetheart are insane. Among other outrageous

1:07.2

anecdotes from her roller coaster life and career, Whitney Houston smoked crack in the presence

1:12.7

of her five-year-old, upstaged F-16 fighter jets with her powerful voice and free-based

1:18.8

her way off of the charts. She was a natural talent. Her voice, like her image, represented

1:24.4

both power and grace. But behind that image, the truth was another story entirely.

1:30.9

Whitney Houston, despite her chart-topping glass ceiling-shattering success, lived a not-so-secret

1:36.2

secret life of self-destruction, pining for true love, unable to practice self-love,

1:42.1

and making great music along the way.

1:45.3

That music you heard at the top of the show, that wasn't great music. That was a preset

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