Brandy: "It was hard to accept Whitney Houston's death"

In the foreword to the new book "Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston" by journalist Gerrick Kennedy, the 42-year-old R&B singer talked about how she handled the death of her idol.

"It's natural for people to want to take responsibility. I also blamed a lot of people on Whitney. "We loved her so much and we needed something or someone to take responsibility, because it was so hard to accept that she was gone," he wrote.

Whitney Houston was found dead on February 11, 2012 at the age of 48 in the bathtub of her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office attributed her death to drowning in an accident, while drugs were found in her body.

Brandy noted that she will always remember Whitney Houston with love and respect.

"We do not really have the right to talk about anything that has happened in her life. No one knows what he was trying to escape. No one knows what he was trying to overcome. No one knows the cost of being Whitney Houston. "This level of reputation, this level of expectations, this level of pressure," he wrote.

"Whitney's voice could bring you closer to God. It has inspired many generations of little girls around the world to sing through their hearts and minds. That was her magic and that is her legacy. "And we will never see another Whitney Houston again."

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Brandy co-starred with her idol in 1997 in a film adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Cinderella" starring Brandy as co-producer and Whitney Houston as fairy. .

"My dreams as a child were to become a singer, to move as many people as I could and to meet Whitney Houston, just to meet her," Brandy told People in August 2020.

"So the fact that I met her, hung out with her and sang with her, was incredible. "I can not really describe how I feel about the fact that she chose me for such a role, for the first black princess," he said.

Brady paid tribute to Whitney Houston over the weekend by performing the NFC Championship match at the "SoFi Stadium" in Inglewood, California wearing the national anthem of the United States wearing a black and white Prada uniform reminiscent of Houston's iconic Super Bowl of 1991.