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Whitney Houston’s Death: Was I A Good Mother? – Cissy Houston
Cissy Houston, 79, mother of international popular pop singer, Whitney Houston’s has told People magazine if she is a good mother questioning her skills as a parent and wonders that she might have saved her superstar daughter from the drug use that contribute to her death.
“Was I a good mother?” Cissy Houston was quoted telling the celebrity magazine in an exclusive interview on Wednesday from the magazine’s Friday edition.
“I still wonder if I could have saved her somehow. But there’s no book written on how to be a parent. You do the best you can.”
Houston died in Beverly Hills hotel bathtub on February 11, 2012, at the age of 48 after taking cocaine.
Cissy Houston, who was also a singer in her own days, told People Magazine about her daughter’s personal life and career while promoting her upcoming memoir, “Remembering Whitney.”
In the memoir, Cissy Houston says she was not aware of the early “partying” days of her daughter, known to the family as “Nippy.”
“I had no idea about Nippy’s ‘partying.’ And the truth is, back then I didn’t really want to know about it,” she writes, according to excerpts released to People.
Cissy, Bobbi Kristina, the singer’s brother and sister-in-law starred in a 14-episode reality show for cable channel Lifetime about their struggle to cope after Houston’s death called “The Houston’s: On Our Own.”
Cissy is “worried” about granddaughter Bobbi Kristina and “trying to make sure she doesn’t tow the same path that led to her famous mother’s death.
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