Feisty Wendy Williams isn’t one to be thrown for a loop and left speechless, but Whitney Houston’s recent death has done just that, which is believable because they are both “Jersey girls” who had a lot in common including being plagued by the drug culture. They also had a well publicized run in during their 2003 radio interview, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3, where the “Jersey girl” came out of the both of them including Whitney being so foul mouthed and Wendy asking her if she would ever consider suicide and she emphatically said no. Below is some of what Wendy shared from her heart on her show today about Whitney.
"I never met her. I had only been in the same room with her once when I was a student at Northeastern University in Boston and she came to Boston.We shared the love of family, parents; we are the same age, plagued with the demon of substance abuse. It’s been almost 15 years since I smoked last from a crack pipe or waited on Jerome Ave in the Bronx for my drugs. I’m not proud of the girl that I was, but without being that girl, I wouldn’t be the woman I am today.
I wished for us to be both sober and aware. I pictured I’d meet her one day with her being the number one person for, “Say No.” It’s just what I thought she would do. I thought we’d meet and we’d hug and be sober and older. My heart goes out to her 18 year old daughter, Bobbi Christina, her mother, Cissy, her cousin, Dionne Warwick, her aunty, Aretha Franklin. In season one, I had Whitney fans, not because I thought she’d come to my show, but because I was hearing things about her and that was my cuckoo crazy way of showing her love.
In 2003 we had a radio interview and you all know how that went. At the end of it, she said. “I love you” and I said “I love you too.” She’s a Jersey girl like me with the subculture of our society, the addict. Today on behalf of me and anybody you know going through substance abuse, reach out to that person. I’m one of the lucky ones, and call them out on it. Even if they don’t quit, it makes it harder for them to sneak around and get high. The toxicology reports about Whitney are not in yet.
It’s just sad. It’s just sad. I love you Whitney."
She then asked for a moment of silence for her Jersey Girl, Whitney Houston.
Whitney Elizabeth Houston
(August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012)
RIP
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