{"id":888768,"date":"2026-06-24T05:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/888768\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:21:16","slug":"oprah-winfrey-whitney-houston-fell-off-talk-show-stage-amid-relapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/888768\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey: Whitney Houston fell off talk show stage amid relapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oprah Winfrey said she successfully \u201cbegged\u201d her talk show audience not to share\u00a0 photos of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/02\/11\/on-10th-anniversary-of-her-death-whitney-houstons-personal-photographer-shares-exclusive-images-before-fame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Whitney Houston when the late singer<\/a> \u201cfell off of the stage,\u201d amid a drug relapse.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.televisionacademy.com\/bios\/oprah-winfrey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Emmy-winning<\/a> \u201cQueen of All Media,\u201d 72, recalled the incident Tuesday while at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canneslions.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cannes Lions<\/a>, Variety reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did the whole, \u2018Hey girl, how you doing?\u2019 greeting thing and then <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/global\/oprah-winfrey-whitney-houston-fell-off-stage-begged-audience-not-leak-1236787965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I stopped the cameras and I went behind stage<\/a> and I said, \u2018So tell me, what do you want to happen here? And I\u2019m gonna tell you what I want to happen here,\u2019\u201d recalled Winfrey, then host of her eponymous talk show. \u201cAnd that was one of the most powerful interviews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/artists\/whitney-houston\/3899\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Grammy winner<\/a> \u201cwas clean\u201d that day, the same could not be said for what Winfrey believed was Houston\u2019s last appearance on \u201cThe Oprah Show\u201d \u2014 which would <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/oprah-winfrey-whitney-houston-fell-off-stage-mid-performance-12004614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">have been filmed in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had gone back on drugs. \u2026 And she fell off of the stage,\u201d said Winfrey, who then \u201cbegged\u201d the crowd to keep the moment mum, despite having their own photos of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew that if that story got out \u2026 she would be destroyed by that,\u201d said Winfrey. \u201cThey did not [publish the photos]. That would not happen today, I can tell you that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2012\/02\/12\/whitney-houston-dead-at-48-came-from-rich-bloodline-of-soul-singers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New Jersey-born and bred R&amp;B superstar died<\/a> in Feb. 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2012\/04\/05\/whitney-houston-autopsy-singers-body-had-trauma-from-fall-into-bathtub-was-suffering-from-emphysema\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">due to an accidental drowning<\/a> caused by the \u201ceffects\u201d of heart disease and cocaine use. She was 48.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/celebrity\/bobbi-kristina-brown-died-of-drug-intoxication-and-water-immersion-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">died in Jan. 2015 in a similar manner<\/a>, with the 22-year-old\u2019s own tragic passing attributed to a combination of drowning and drug intoxication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey said she successfully \u201cbegged\u201d her talk show audience not to share\u00a0 photos of Whitney Houston when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":888769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,1370,5424,50,1072,173,7156,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-888768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-latest-headlines","tag-music-and-concerts","tag-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-tv","tag-tv-and-streaming","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116803409893552148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}