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Post by eclair on Aug 1, 2015 17:58:40 GMT -4
Clearly the real theme of the funeral was Everyone Push Their Own Personal Agenda. The best hope is that the litigation for the estate drags on for decades and they lawyers take all the money.
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Post by Carolinian on Aug 1, 2015 18:25:21 GMT -4
Thanks for the updates. I saw the headline on the front page of MSNBC but didn't want to give them the satisfaction of the clicks. I knew Greecies would keep me in the loop!
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Post by Martini Girl on Aug 1, 2015 19:11:49 GMT -4
Random thoughts:
Funeral themes seem to be in a similar vein as Catholic wakes; a celebration of life.
Chronies- your posts are always so informative! Thank you.
Was Cissy Houston's family always this dysfunctional, or did it evolve over time? I thought Whitney came from a pretty stable family, and it was Bobby Brown that signaled her downfall. Or did the vast fortune just corrupt everyone? This mess reminds me of the Lohans.
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Post by Witchie on Aug 1, 2015 21:15:18 GMT -4
Random thoughts: Funeral themes seem to be in a similar vein as Catholic wakes; a celebration of life. Chronies- your posts are always so informative! Thank you. Was Cissy Houston's family always this dysfunctional, or did it evolve over time? I thought Whitney came from a pretty stable family, and it was Bobby Brown that signaled her downfall. Or did the vast fortune just corrupt everyone? This mess reminds me of the Lohans. The Browns have their issues, but Whitney's brothers got her hooked on drugs.
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Post by Alexis Machine on Aug 2, 2015 0:02:31 GMT -4
Was Cissy Houston's family always this dysfunctional, or did it evolve over time? I thought Whitney came from a pretty stable family, and it was Bobby Brown that signaled her downfall. Or did the vast fortune just corrupt everyone? This mess reminds me of the Lohans. The Browns have their issues, but Whitney's brothers got her hooked on drugs. And she had a chaotic childhood. Cissy was a traveling gospel musician, and it sounds like the kids were out of control. One of Whitney's brothers shoved something metal down her throat and damaged her vocal chords, there were multiple arrests, and physical violence in the home.
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Post by Ninja Bunny on Aug 2, 2015 2:44:39 GMT -4
The Browns have their issues, but Whitney's brothers got her hooked on drugs. And she had a chaotic childhood. Cissy was a traveling gospel musician, and it sounds like the kids were out of control. One of Whitney's brothers shoved something metal down her throat and damaged her vocal chords, there were multiple arrests, and physical violence in the home. One day Whitney ran home because she was being chased by a gang of bullies. Instead of protecting her child like a decent parent would, Cissy told Whitney to fight her own battles and slammed the door in her face, leaving her to get beaten. Cissy was a shitty mother. It's no surprise her children and grandchild ended up on drugs and/or dead.
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Post by Mouse on Aug 3, 2015 13:02:47 GMT -4
Cissy shouldn't get all the blame. Where was Whitney's father all those years?
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Post by LurkerNan on Aug 3, 2015 15:17:49 GMT -4
Dang, this family sounds like a trainwreck. I wonder if there is some sort of class warfare between the Browns and the Houstons. Because the Houstons always seem more put together than the Browns, even though their history seems to be just as (or more) tarnished. That's got to bug the Browns.
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Post by SweetOblivion on Aug 3, 2015 15:50:27 GMT -4
TMZ says someone was able to get a picture of Bobbi Kristina's body in her casket at the funeral and has already sold it. I only wish that poor girl didn't have to die to get away from that wretched family.
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Post by Neurochick on Aug 3, 2015 16:24:01 GMT -4
Many celebrities come from dysfunctional families and some manage to get away from them. The problem with WH was that her mother was a well known singer (I'd heard of her in the 1970's and I think she sang background for Elvis Presley) and that was how she was introduced to fame. So Whitney really couldn't keep them at arm's length the way Mariah Carey did. Also in Mariah's case, Tommy Mottola kind of took her away from a lot of that dysfunction. Whitney ended up with a man just as dysfunctional as the members of her family.
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