Whitney Houston's Estate Disputes Oprah's Drug Claim, Blames Stage Conditions

Across the years since Whitney Houston's death, her legacy has remained a contested space — a life of extraordinary gifts shadowed by well-documented struggles, and a story that different voices continue to shape in different ways. At Cannes, Oprah Winfrey offered a memory of Houston's final talk show appearance as a moment of visible relapse; Houston's estate has now stepped forward to insist that memory is wrong, that a fall on a darkened stage was nothing more than a fall on a darkened stage. What hangs in the balance is not merely one incident, but the larger question of how we allow the h