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Sarah El-Mahmoud

Whitney Houston Fell Offstage During Relapse, And Oprah (And The Audience) Kept It Secret For More Than 15 Years

Whitney Houston Live on Wogan in 1988 and Oprah Winfrey on CBS Sunday Mornings in 2026.

Oprah Winfrey is obviously a legendary interviewer who has talked with many of the greats. But, we just learned something new about Oprah’s history with the late Whitney Houston. According to a new revelation from the game-changing TV personality, there was a time when she got an entire audience to keep a secret after the struggling pop star had a faux pas during a performance on her show in 2009.

Whitney Houston died at the age of 48 due to an accidental drowning in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton while she had drugs in her system. The singer behind one of the most iconic movie songs in Hollywood history and a ton of beloved hits struggled with drug addiction for 30 years, and apparently Winfrey and her audience once saw this firsthand. As the talk show host shared:

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