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Oprah’s Interview with Whitney Houston surely did not disappoint. Oprah built on the first interview with Whitney and asks the questions we’ve all been wondering in all of this how did she think her daughter was being impacted? Did she leave and want Bobby back? And much more. Check out a few highlights & performance:

On Leaving Bobby and The Impact of This Tumultuous Relationship on Bobbi Kristina:

Whitney: I got her out of the house earlier than I had left. I placed her with my brother, Gary, and my sister-in-law, Pat, who lived five minutes down the street from me, because it was getting to be a little much. They took care of her for fifth and sixth grade while she went to school. While I just tried to get it all together and say: “What was I going to do? Where was I going to go? How was I going to do this? How was I going to get out of this?” And once I made some moves, I took her with me to California, and we lived there for a year and a half.

Oprah: So were you separated from Bobby Brown for a time when we didn’t even know it?

Whitney: Yeah. I left, but nobody really knew.

Oprah: Do you feel that even doing that—taking her out of the house—that she saw too much? She heard too much? Experienced too much?

Whitney: It was enough. She saw enough. The spitting in the face was enough. She said: “Mom, did he spit in your face?” And I looked in her eyes and she looked in mine and I said: “Yes. But it’s all right.” And she said: “No, it’s not. No, it’s not. It’s not, Mom. It’s not all right.” I said: “If you can do me a favor. Just do this for Mommy. I’m going to put my trust in God. You put your trust in me. You may not understand it now, but just trust me. I’m not letting you go. I will hold on to you with my dear life. Just trust me. And we will get up out of this. And we’ll be happier for it. And then as you get older, I’ll tell you little by little as to why things are happening and why Mommy has to go.”

But we got to California and she was very angry. Did not understand. She fought me. But I kept coming back with love. I kept holding her in my arms. I kept knocking on that door and I kept getting on my knees. I kept praying. Telling her I loved her.

And then I waited for him. I did. I waited for him to come back to say all the stuff that he was doing—and he was doing a lot of ugly things outside the marriage. I just kept thinking: “He’s dragging this into my home and my daughter. I can’t have this. I can’t let her think that this is love, or this is the way it should be.”

Oprah: You were still, even after moving to California, hoping that you could get back together?

Whitney: Yeah, I waited. 

 

On Escaping Addiction:

Oprah: What did you learn? What is the most you’ve learned through this entire process of sitting there with the drugs, of the evil eyes on the wall?

Whitney: It was difficult because he wouldn’t let me go. He did not want me to leave.

Oprah: And you didn’t think you had the strength to leave on your own. And that’s why you prayed to God for just one day.

Whitney: ”Just one day give me the strength and I’ll go. Just one day. Because I can’t live like this anymore. I’m not going to share him with this one and that one. I’m not doing that. He’s not going to drag this into my home, and I’m not going to let my daughter think that that’s love.”

Oprah: Why did you think you couldn’t leave without that prayer? What was holding you there?

Whitney: Habit. Conforming to a way of life. Thinking that it’s all right, that it will get better.

On Finding Strength

Oprah: Do you now know your own strength?

Whitney: I know from whence my help cometh. I do know that. And I know that it’s strong within me. If ever I get low, I get weak, I know where I can turn to. I love the spirit of God so much that I’m not willing to trade that for anything. I’m not trading that for nothing. For nothing. Because I feel joy that I can’t even speak about. And peace that passes all understanding.

Oprah: Because I know you can’t get through this without God.

Whitney: I was by myself so much during those years in L.A., and I would just sit and I would read the word and I would stop and I would think, “What do you want me to know?” The Holy Spirit would speak to me and it would guide me. And I wouldn’t know how I would get to this place or that place. Or how I did this or how I was go into the studio and sing again. But I did it.