14 DAY TRIAL // In what can’t but bring to mind “Bodyguard” comparisons, the FBI file released just hours ago on late singer Whitney Houston reveals that she was under protection against fanatics and one friend who tried to blackmail her.
One fan in particular, a 28-year-old man from Vermont, was monitored by the FBI, with all his correspondence going straight on the file, CNN reports.
He wrote to Whitney regularly, but also to members of her family, in the vain hope that they might write back to let him know that she’d received his letters.
In them, he told Whitney how much he loved and respected her, but also hinted at having dark thoughts, thoughts he said he was trying to keep under control but feared he might not be able to.
“But because I have gotten that desperate and mad and would come up with ideas that that it scares me that I might come up with some crazy or stupid or really dumb idea that might be as bad as that or even worse than that,” the man wrote.
His name on all handwritten letters has been blacked out.
“I might hurt someone with some crazy idea and not realize how stupid an idea it is until after I have done it. That really scares me,” he added.
The FBI later ruled that he did not pose a real threat to the singer and the investigation was concluded.
Another fanatic, also a man, was subject to a similar investigation.
The same file shows that the FBI also looked into a blackmail attempt by someone whom Whitney considered a close friend and confidante.
The person in question threatened her to go public with personal information on her, telling her that he’d been offered a huge amount to spill the beans and that he expected her to come with a suitable counter-offer for his silence.
That case was also closed after a while, after the FBI determined that no crime was committed.