VIA ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:
Sometimes it takes a star to interview a star. It’s doubtful that Whitney Houston would have opened up as freely as she did on Monday’s season premiere of Oprah were she not being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey. There was an atmosphere of understanding and trust that allowed Houston to speak with little self-consciousness about her drug use, her tumultuous marriage to Bobby Brown, and the squandering of her musical gifts. “I was so weak,” she said simply, powerfully.
For a star who has many times in her career seemed regally aloof from the petty concerns of the world that you and I endure, Houston spoke to Oprah in the manner so many of the abused women that Winfrey has interviewed over the years have spoken. That she was “trying to please” an “emotionally abusive” husband. That “I would become a little girl” in his presence. That there was an element of masochism to the abuse: “I was very interested in having someone have control over me.”
Need more? Read the entire article at EW.com.
Watch part of the September 15th interview.