14 DAY TRIAL // Whitney Houston is currently on tour, promoting her comeback album “I Look to You.” After a rather shaky performance in Australia in February this year, speculation began to make the rounds that the singer had fallen off the wagon and was back to using drugs, culminating with the National Enquirer running a story on how Whitney was back in rehab. The only problem is, her rep tells Perez Hilton, is that it’s all a bunch of lies.
The latest issue of the tabloid has Whitney on the cover looking somewhat worse for wear and with the caption, “Rehab for Whitney to Save Her Life!” A smaller headline reads “Sweaty, dazed & confused star battles her drug demons,” thus paining a very dire picture of how Whitney is doing lately. The article, of course, uses quotes from unnamed “sources” and concerned “friends” whose idea of helping the legendary singer seems to consist of running to the tabs to spill the beans.
Marty Singer, Whitney’s rep and attorney, is absolutely stunned about how low the tab in question can stoop and he’s not making a secret of it, as his statement to Perez Hilton reveals. “The National Enquirer continuously publishes false, fabricated and malicious stories about Whitney Houston, including this latest cover story with the headline saying it’s ‘REHAB FOR WHITNEY.’ Whitney is not headed to rehab, she is headed to Paris, where she will be continuing her world tour. […] Whitney is not using drugs and is not in rehab. She is on tour, putting on great shows which are being enjoyed by tens of thousands of concert-goers and which have been praised by reviewers,” Singer says.
“This reality stands in contrast to the handful of negative reviews that were selectively quoted by Enquirer in its effort to justify the lies published about Whitney. It is ironic that at the same time that the Enquirer claims it is deserving of a Pulitzer for journalism, the tabloid is continuously publishing stories comprised of brazen lies cobbled together from claims made by anonymous sources. Readers who don’t care about the truth and who want to read lies about Whitney Houston should by this week’s Enquirer,” the statement further says.
As fans must know by now, after the much mediated and criticized performance in Australia, talk of a relapse started to make the round. Also back then, the Whitney camp strongly denied such allegations, even saying that there was nothing wrong with her during said concert and that it too was pure rumor.