I go away for a couple of hours and return to this news...very shocking. RIP :o

:(

I hope it wasn't suicide :(

meh. I'm over it already.

Patrick :( don't be like that. Fair enough but don't post that in here, of all the threads.

That would be awful :/

I hope Whitney is in peace now, she seemed like such a tortured soul for the past decade. Ever since she got with Bobby Brown it all went downhill.

ok sky news I take it back. don't show clips. it's heartbreaking seeing what she had become so ****ing tragic and sad, just keep playing i will always love you, she should always be remembered that way, nice healthy and beautiful, with that trembling bottom lip mama and i use to copy :bawling:

So sad, its set me off again, people need to stop dying. RIP what a legend, forget the drugs listen to her at her best, breathtaking.

This is so sad. I was at a party tonight, and come home to this. I'm shocked. Such a shame and so young. RIP.

Dionne Warwick was her aunt? Wow. I love her :love:

I'm shocked to read this news: though there was an article in yesterday's paper I think, showing her in a hell of a state coming out of a party and I though the same thoughts as you've put up Callum, it's like she's been existing for years, not living - just getting by and very unhappily.


May she rest in peace now.

A predictable end to a squandered life ..... :bored:

I have to agree with omah, talent, support and wealth cant stop some self destructing. She had every means at her disposal to battle her demons. What a shame.

walk a mile in someone else's shoes

Oh my, I just heard the news on the way home in the back of a taxi, so sad - she was so great in her time

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aw mariah :(

the question is why is there always someone in a celeb circle willing to give the star the first taste of drugs? Jealousy or do some celebs just willingly ask for a first taste. sad

This comment on the Daily Mail article stood out:

It's so true.

I imagine it's just a part of the experience, really - maybe it helps to deal with the pressures of fame, being in another world inside your head or something. But yeah, probably peer pressure, or because it's 'cool', or something like that

or perhaps the fact being that being an addict - is a choice - as it is well known and long documented that drugs can lead to addiction: it's not news, so it's a chance they take and they take knowingly. No one forces anyone to take drugs - peer pressure is that, pressure -it's not forced upon a person.

AMEEEEEN!!

We all wonder that but the comeback always is you can't help someone that doesn't want to be helped. This is true but also many people manage to get through with the love and support of friends and family, you wonder just how hard those "friends" really tried to help in the hour of need.
I want to hear from bobby now. those two will always be soulmates i believe.

..I'm truly shocked...RIP Whitney..here for one moment in time....
Each day I live
I want to be
A day to give
the best of me
I'm only one
but not alone
My finest day
is yet unknown.....

There will be a musical tribute to her at the Grammy's

I heard Jennifer Hudson was going to do something, I hope there're bigger names (I admit she's big, but not...legendary).

I heard it will be Jennifer and Chaka Khan
I guess it is a bit last minute....hopefully there will be a huge tribute in a few weeks