(1965: 2008) Michael, a Whitney's year, even admits: "We were graduating marijuana together.If something had to be done, I would be the one who would show it.The ages were probably about 16 years old."
Today However, however, Nicole quickly warns of blaming the brothers – saying instead that she hopes the father of Cissy and Whitney, the late John Houston, had the ability to see something wrong. 19659002] She says: "I do not blame the brothers Yes, I would have liked that they did not take his medicine Yes, I wish when they had the best voice of our time as a sister, that they did not bother, but they were children, I wish their parents did things differently. "
Mother Cissy disputed allegations of abuse by Gary
She adds, "I blame – well, I do not blame anyone, I blamed everyone – but I wish their parents had been more sophisticated and had more knowledge about what was happening and could have done the difference. "
And although she clearly had little time for Bobby, 49, who was married to her between 1992 and 2007, she said," He did not help to do it well. But it was certainly not the cause of his addiction. He was not a man, he was a boy. I think they were co-dependent. He was really young and unprepared for the life he came into. Nicole had only learned that Gary's allegations when he decided to break his silence while making the film last year. He alleged that one family member had abused him and Whitney.
Whitney's personal badistant, Mary Jones, added that the singer had told him that it was Dee Dee. "She had tears in her eyes," she says
Dee Dee had been a singer like her sister Dionne, before her troubled life brought her to death in 68 years in 2008.
Cissy, the mother of Dionne and Whitney, is inflexible. "Dee Dee may have had her personal problems, but the idea that she would have molested my kids is overwhelming and, for us, unfathomable."
They added that Whitney Michael's brother had not heard of the allegations
With his father John
But whatever that may be, Nicole thinks there's always had something that haunts Whitney from a very young age
She says, "Even when I met Whitney for the first time – before I heard her sing – there was a lot of sadness in those eyes … under his little hard coat and his humor. "
Whitney – nicknamed Nippy – had been raised in Newark, New Jersey, at a time marked by ethnic riots. Her parents discovered her potential at a young age and she began solo singing at the church at the age of 11, joining her mother in 14-year clubs and singing for Chaka Khan at the age of 11. Age 15 years old.
his first album The Greatest Love. She became the first African-American to perform in South Africa after apartheid and held the women's world record of all time.
It was a real family affair, his father was his manager and everyone was on payroll. But all the time, she was falling more and more into her spiral of drugs that would see her 2009 World Tour marked a disaster, ruining her famous voice and eventually leading to her death.
Nicole even believes a platinum album or an Oscar She did nothing to relieve her pain.
She said, "She spent years with everyone to love her and she received applause like no one else." When I went to the Oscars with her, I had almost being trampled by people who were trying to reach her, so she knew the power of being a star, yet I do not think that all this glory makes her happy. "
After a life of # 39; friendship, Nicole hopes that people will start to remember Whitney to be the incredible singer she knew so well – not the tragic She says: "I wish everything else to go away – and that her voice, his talent and beauty be remembered. "
Whitney is now in the cinema