Whitney Houston’s Family Say’s Oprah Is A Lie When The Truth Would Do [VIDEO]

Oprah Winfrey was down in Cannes telling some things that we probably didn’t have to know.  During a sit-down at Lumière Theatre, Oprah highlighted the responsibility of media and how strong of an influence they have, when she decided to use her interview with the late Whitney Houston as an example.  The part we really didn’t need to know was according to Oprah, Whitney had fallen off the wagon which prompted her to fall of Oprah’s stage.  Mind you this was pre-social media, but people did still carry personal cameras to take pictures for themselves and in this case their picture of Whitney Houston falling off the stage could have earned them a lot of money but ruined Whitney Houston.  Oprah say’s that she used her influence to have people to keep their photos to themselves.  Whitney Houston’s family is responding to Oprah Winfrey’s, why now moment, with an Oprah is a lie when when the truth would do.

Whitney Houston’s estate, run by her sister-in-law, Pat Houston, is upset and has released a statement to TMZ 

“Whitney absolutely fell off the stage, but it was during a sound check, and it was due to the darkness of the area and her unfamiliarity with the stage. She was absolutely not high.” … “Like many people, she faced personal battles, but it is inaccurate and unfair to attach that struggle to every performance or every chapter of her life. What the studio audience witnessed on stage was the result of discipline, talent, and commitment — not the assumptions others project.”…”Whitney’s humanity included triumphs and struggles, but on that day, she showed up as the professional and gifted artist she always worked to be. We owe her the dignity of telling the truth, not repeating myths.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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