Whitney Houston was loved; Whitney Houston was ridiculed.
For most of her life, the incomparable singer was forced to make sense of those intertwined realities. Even as she set towering records and moved mountains with her voice, she was judged at every turn by those who could never step into in her shoes.
While the love never left, the mockery grew louder in her later years as she fell victim to drug abuse before dying in 2012 at the age of 48.
