14 DAY TRIAL // Whitney Houston's family sat down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey, which aired this Sunday. Patricia Houston, the singer's sister in law and manager, was also invited – and she might have provided fuel for the ongoing conspiracy theories.
As the video below will confirm, Oprah asked Patricia about the day when Whitney's body was found, unresponsive in the bathtub.
The singer is believed to have OD'ed on prescription pills, but that theory is to be confirmed or refuted by toxicology results, which are due soon.
Until then, rumors are making the rounds that Whitney could have been killed, presumably even by someone close to her.
Patricia, the third person to enter Whitney's room on that ill-fated day, is providing conspiracy theorists with fuel to keep going, saying she has no idea how her body got into the bathtub.
“She was in the tub – I don’t know how she got there. They had to pull her out of the tub and were trying to revive her,” Patricia told Oprah.
While some – like celebrity e-zine TMZ – are saying this is clear indication that Patricia too believes there was something fishy about the diva's death, chances are she was only telling the truth: she did not know when Whitney decided to take a bath.
In the same interview, Patricia also talks about the desperate attempts made on Whitney to save her life.
Her body was discovered by a makeup artist (the singer was getting ready for Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party, where she was scheduled to perform) and a bodyguard.
Both tried to bring her to life, as also did the medics who arrived on the scene.
“I couldn’t leave her and I said don’t touch me please and I saw them cover her up and I knew that that was it. I knew that was it. Just looking at her and watching that I still could not believe it I could not believe it,” Patricia recalled, fighting back tears.
Even so, she told Oprah she wasn't shocked that Whitney died.
Things in her life were on the mend, but she always lived with this dread that the day would come – and that, it did.
“It wasn’t about substance abuse or anything like that relative to the... latter days or anything like that,” she said.
“It was just more of a lifestyle. I was afraid for other things. I saw her chasing a dream, you know, looking for love in all the wrong places,” Patricia explained.
