| WHITNEY'S SISTER IN-LAW EXPLAINS REASON FOR TATTLING: Tina Brown thought Enquirer tell-all would encourage singer to get clean. |
| Monday, August 14, 2006 |
(Tina Brown) Whitney Houston's sister-in-law had a sit-down with Sister 2 Sister magazine to explain her reasons for splashing the singer's drug problem across the pages of the National Enquirer.
"I had several motives behind what I did. One was because I loved her and I was tired of seeing her like that," said Tina Brown, the sister of Houston's husband Bobby Brown and the photographer behind photos of Whitney's "drug den" bathroom. Brown says she went public only after warning Houston that she would do so if the entertainer kept refusing treatment.
"Every time I got called (by Houston) I was scared I was gonna walk in there and she was gonna be dead," Brown told the magazine. "I told her, 'The next time I come in here... and the situation is the same, I'm snapping pictures and I'm gonna do what I gotta do. Maybe if you see yourself in black and white... Maybe you need a jarring experience to wake you up out of this."
"She called me and she was like, 'You did it...' We started talking and she started crying and was like, 'Why did you do it?' I was like, 'Nip (Houston's nickname), it's gonna help you, man. When you see it, read it. Read what you do."
Brown also denies that the Enquirer paid her $200,000 to drop dime on Whitney's drug problem. "I'm broke now, so it couldn't have been that much money," she explains to the magazine's Jamie Foster Brown.
Speaking of being broke, Brown also discusses how Houston's handlers are allegedly robbing her blind. She says she's trying to get the "Waiting to Exhale" star to get rid of her aides.
"She thought her house was paid for and came to find out she owes $900,000 or something... She has to move. It's not that she wants to move...And the whole time she's thinking she owns that house," Brown said. "She doesn't know that (family members) took her wedding rings... or her diamond bracelet. We have paperwork where they pawned the stuff. They've been taking from my brother and his wife from day one... I'm not going to sit back no more, and they can do whatever they wanna do."
Brown is hoping that Houston will at least get clean enough to see that her entourage is cleaning her out.
"She has like 40 people on her payroll. They all have chauffeurs and (they're) buying brand new cars... but she's broke," Brown said. "My mission is a quest to save Whitney from the people around her... Source |
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