BREAKING - Cissy Houston Is Dead To Me

Because Satan didn't want her having any water in hell.

Now she can go berate her daughter for being a dyke in the afterlife.

I call dibs on her stuff.

She often whipped Whitney with a belt. Rest in hell, bitch

This came as no surprise to Dionne.

Why is this even news?

Which Houston family member will be next on the "we rode the Whitney Houston gravy train for as long as we could" to kick the bucket.

Has Miss Warwick commented yet?

Did she ever not look like a crack whore?

Miss Warwick will speak to her through her psychic friends.

Everything you see in that shot was paid for with Whitney's money – the fur wrap, the teeth, the horrible hairstyle, even the photographer who took that professional photo. She was a leech, nothing more.

Ding dong, the witch is dead!

R12 = Robyn Crawford

Why am I reminded of this when I look at OP's picture?

That poor fur around her neck had to smell her nappy pussy.

There are no more tomorrows for Cissy.

I died of a broken heart 'cause Nippy liked that poontang instead of uncut pinga.

R2 is the best R1 I've read in a while.

Unbelievable that Dionne outlived that entire family!

Not a religious person but somehow hope she is "with" her daughter. A difficult relationship for sure but there seemed to be true love there from both sides

Are Buffy and Jody ok?

One of the best ever background vocals

Hateful hag.

Off topic, but I saw this somewhere else last week and was wondering if anyone else watches this clip with sadness rather than celebrating her YASS, QUEEN! sassiness (as most of the comments I saw do)?

Another one bites the dust!

According to her daughter-in-law Pat Houston, she died at home where she was under Hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease.

Pat’s statement is in linked Variety article.

When i saw OP's pic I thought she was doing the remake of Lucy's Stone Pillow

Since she was such a homophobe, let's start the rumour that she was a late-in-life lesbian and died while eating out her lover's vajay. "I thought she was just taking a long time". her reported lover, Aileen Saphron said, "But...she wasn't being attentive to my clitoris... She was just dead."

Thank you for posting that r23.

Dionne is still around

The Grim Reaper is out and about once again...this is #1.

Katherine Jackson and Dionne Warwick best sleep with one eye open the next week or two.

Damn. Mariah's and Whitney's mothers died the same year. RIP. You gave the world a once-in-a-lifetime talent with Whitney.

It was the Jennifer Hudson tribute to Whitney at the AMA 50th anniversary special that did her in, wasn’t it?

Does this mean that Dionne will inherit all of that Whitney money now?

Pat Houston is also a piece of work.

Cissy's crowning moment.

So young.

[quote]Damn. Mariah's and Whitney's mothers died the same year. RIP. You gave the world a once-in-a-lifetime talent with Whitney.

J. Lo and Lady GaGa , Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, and Beyonce better keep their mothers under a protective bubble.

This makes two 'relatives' of popular female singers who have died over the past few days: Madonna's brother, and now Houston's mother. Franki Grande better watch out !

I look at OP's photo and I smell moth balls and Aqua Net.

Her chinchilla collar in OP’s pic is one of the most expensive furs around, right up there with Russian sable.

Oh this is awful! Does anyone know how she died?

R9 😂 😂 😂. This has gotta be the coldest comment I’ve seen in some time.

Bitch can roast in hell. Her homophobia was one of the reasons her daughter died so young.

God’s got your number hussy.

[quote]Does this mean that Dionne will inherit all of that Whitney money now?

How many cartons of smokes will that get her?

I guess making it to 92 ain’t for Cissys.

Barbara Walters and Sherri Shepherd are more concerned about Bobbi Kristina than Pat and Cissy.

Pat in particular comes across as an opportunist. Bobbi Kristina didn’t stand a chance at having a happy, healthy life with these vultures.

They were on The View to promote their reality series The Houstons: On Our Own which started airing 8 months after Whitney died.

[quote]Unbelievable that Dionne outlived that entire family!

Virginia Slims are the fountain of youth.

She spent most of her life living through her daughter, trying to control and dominate her. I can't think of anything good to say about that bitch. She reminds me of those self-righteous church sisters with their polyester wigs and imperious manners. Gossiping, judging. Turning their noses up at anything that didn't have anything to do with their precious fucking Jesus. She and the rest of that family mooched off of Whitney and ran her ragged. I wish that she had had the strength to keep them away, poor thing.

Fuck Cissy Houston.

Her Gay Daughter paid for her regal lifestyle

I think she was burning up with jealousy about Whitney.

Bobby Brown: “Sending love and blessings to the Houston family on this great loss. May she rest in peace and power”.

Bobby is a bigger man than I thought.

Is it true that she pushed Whitney into the closet?

Seriously, R36? She looked so sour and unappealing there, as if she were wishing she was anywhere but where she is; and was wishing everyone onstage and in the audience into the cornfield. Didn't smile except for a fleeting second halfway through the performance, didn't move one hair in rhythm like the other backups, and barely clapped when it time to clap. Looked like an angry Maxine Waters.

Was her mike even on?

R56, that sour and unappealing performance got her more publicity than she's had in decades.

There was a lot of homophobic bullying by Cissy and others in the inner circle who wanted to stay on the gravy train R55.

Cissy considered the relationship between Whitney and Robyn Crawford, her friend turned lover, unnatural and forbid Robyn from walking next to Whitney in public. That’s only scratching the surcface.

Perhaps, R57, but R36's headline was "Cissy's finest moment." And I neither saw nor heard that evidence. Her sour stoniness was unprofessional and distracting, pulling visual focus from the Queen of Soul in a way backup singers never should.

My cousin’s friend who is a stylist to ALL the big names in temporary orthodontia said that Cissy was visiting Roberta Flack at her place in Asheville when Roberta let one of her shrieks loose.

The house was swept down the mountain faster than a turd irrigated out of your colon. It was awful.

What a cissy

I worked with some ladies who lived in New Jersey in the nid-80s. They were in membership services at our society in the United Engineering Center (torn down and now a Trump building 🤮).

They lived right in Cissy and Whitney’s neighborhood. These coworkers of mine were genuine black church ladies and very VERY into singing at mass.

They said that Cissy was supremely stuck up and superior-acting, and would not deign to socialize with the more working class people in the church assembly.

Then they said, “she acts so high and mighty, but we have all seen that daughter of hers, smoking pot in the alleyway.” Now at the time I knew this was Whitney, an up and coming star, but I didn’t believe it — I thought they were just jealous. She seemed so wholesome. In hindsight … how right they were.

[quote] Everything you see in that shot was paid for with Whitney's money – the fur wrap, the teeth, the horrible hairstyle, even the photographer who took that professional photo. She was a leech, nothing more.

There would have been no Whitney Houston without Cissy Houston, period. She poured everything she had genetically and vocally into Whitney. She gave Whitney a voice and taught her how to use it. Cissy lived her life, endured her trauma, learned her lessons and moved on. We're all flawed but Cissy left the world better than she found it.

What Whitney money? The money stopped coming in the day Whitney died.

Whitney didn't write any of her songs, so the only money she was making was from concerts and touring. Plus, she likely died with a lot of debt, so the family has probably only recently paid those off by making some details from tell-all interviews

Is she really dead or is she Christopher Ciccione dead ?

Wonder if Whitney and Aretha met her at the Pearly Gates, and locked her out instead of welcoming her in ? "Get away, bitch !" screams Whitney. "Move your fat ass to Hell, hussy!" says Aretha.

So many nasty comments about Cissy in this thread. She doesn't deserve such disrespect.

Shame on DL.

Where did she get that janky wig in the OP picture ? I think DollarTree has better wigs than what she has on her head.

R67 You're new here ? Welcome to the forum !

R67 She was a homophobic cunt who caused her daughter needless pain and anguish.

Here is Cissy singing backup for Joe Cocker during a Ray Charles tribute.

[quote]I think DollarTree has better wigs than what she has on her head.

With a chinchilla collar, no less.

You should never say bad things about the dead, only good.

Cissy Houston is dead?

Good.

R39, Madonna also lost her stepmother, Joan, on Sept 24. Celebrity mommas better watch out.

[quote] J. Lo and Lady GaGa , Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, and Beyonce better keep their mothers under a protective bubble.

J. Lo's mother is safe. Needs no bubble.

All you bitches thinking Cissy deserves more respect can kiss my gay ass. Her homophobia deserves airtime, and this is one of the few places where that will happen.

r66 Aretha Franklin was homophobic too? 😔

Nippy had a nappy pussy, just like uppity Cissy.

[QUOTE]It was not a bathtub related death.

However, she gleefully facilitated two bathtub deaths because she was "Bible," ya'll. Fuck this mother-fucking cunt of a "grandma" disguised as a self-seeker. Did the family ever recognize how much blood she had on her hands?

Susan Dey does not know how to respond to so much black jive talk.

Lame joke.

R79. Calm down, Teacake.

You won't miss much if you block r80. 🚫

Good lord (lawdy), Emily Latilla! Now, I'm Teacake? 😂

My God does not recognize Cissy’s divorce or second marriage and subsequent children. We look down on her and cast her out of Eden.

It’s actually divorce(S)! This one’s cooter be itchin’

Met her once at a private event. Nasty ole cunt.

Will she be buried in that same ghetto graveyard as Whitney?

PLEASE Miss Warwick return to the Datalounge for funeral commentary!

She was all over John Houston’s dick while he was still married

😱 oh, Lordy

As they say, old age isn't for Cissy's.

No disrespect intended, but the Whitney funeral watch threads we had were hysterical. The majority of posts were written as we collectively watched it on tv. I wish they still existed.

R93 Those were priceless. I wish they were still around. They should have been put in 'the vault'.

R93 and we all remember "that moment" when Dionne and Cissy name checked Aretha.

"....she is here yet she is not HERE."

Pure DL gold!

Excuse me for being late to your party, but I have been TRYING to find the articles Cissy "borrowed" from me over the years. And crying some.

How she thought she could fit her butt in my gold lamé bell bottoms I do not know. Why she took my black panties when she couldn't fit the openings on her arms much less her gunther I cannot imagine. Why she needed with my best Ganga pipe I do not know, since she had her special coping pills in hand since 1958 I am nonplussed over.

You saw her wandering around Nippy's homegoing with that polyester wig backwards and humming "Bye Bye Blackbird" while shredding tissues out of the church's grief supply crates.

That closet was a mess and those fucking nurses kept giving me the side eye as I filled my black trash bags.

I've been pissed at Cis for a long time. But then I dee-scovered she had been confiscating things out of Nips' and Bobbi's purses and Bobby's pockets when he was passed out on the floor for YEARS. I now have a historic collection of ALL the good stuff through all the substance trends of their unfortunate lives!

Look for the auction on that dork web thing. I KNEW my dee-votion to family was going to pay off in a better way than singing at their lonnnng series of funerals!

Love gives back! You re-member that. Love pays back. Mmm-Hmm.

R48, Pat comes off as so defensive there.

Of course they’re defending her treatment of Whitney on LSA?

R98 LSA?

R99 not R98 but it means Lipstick Alley. It's a black forum where they make lots of homophobic comments, disparage most white entertainers for being mediocre, etc. They take stanning of entertainers to the very max.

Fly, Robyn, Fly

Poor Whitney. Her family is nothing more than mooches and grifters. Pam Houston should be waterboarded.

My condolences, R96. I hope Cissy’s death doesn’t interfere with your upcoming street naming ceremony later this week in East Orange.

Remind me, is this the street you turned tricks on or the one where you always passed out on in a stupor?

Did Cissy really beat Whitney with belts? I never heard that one.

She didn’t spare the rod. I am sure she slapped her face on occasion. I read that somewhere in an interview with Whitney.

[quote] All you bitches thinking Cissy deserves more respect can kiss my gay ass. Her homophobia deserves airtime, and this is one of the few places where that will happen.

Cissy was raised singing in the Black church so she knew and loved many of her (obvious but closeted) gay congregation members and music collaborators just as she was taught that homosexuality was a sin. There were many gays and lesbians who were fans of Cissy Houston throughout her solo recording and performing career. She was gracious to her gay fans.

You don't have to respect Cissy but you can save your scorn for the people who personally denigrated you because of your sexuality -- or us as a collective. Cissy's homophobia had little to no impact on our lives.

R106 it DID impact Whitney’s life.

Maybe if she hadn't been so homophobic, her daughter wouldn't have become a crackhead and might still be alive today. So yes, it did affect our lives in that way. I'd much rather have Whitney alive and well.

She fucking killed her daughter's joy.

Who the fuck is “Joy”?

Pat is Whitney's sister-in-law, meaning that Pat is married to Whitney's brother, Gary. Whitney's brother's original last name is Garland. (He's from Cissy's earlier marriage.)

The worst thing they (Pat, Cissy, Gary, etc.) did was put Bobby Kristina in that reality show right after Whitney died.

R111, I think the worst thing may have been Whitney adopting Nick Gordon, the guy who Bobbi ended up dating. People still think he was responsible for Bobbi's death. Not sure how true that is but he did act like a moron on Dr. Phil.

R112, she didn't legally adopt him, but she did let him into her inner circle, where he ended up fucking "stepsister" Bobby Kristina . Bobby Brown blames him for both deaths (W & BK).

He was super sketchy and a liar. He's dead now.

R113, all of that is so messed up on so many levels.

Haven't read the full thread, so apologies if this has already been posted - but Cissy sang back-up on the famous live version of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" in which Elvis cracks up.

Q: Would it have bothered you if your daughter Whitney was gay?

A: Absolutely

Cissy didn’t care for Robyn or Bobby Brown

[quote] Maybe if she hadn't been so homophobic, her daughter wouldn't have become a crackhead and might still be alive today. So yes, it did affect our lives in that way. I'd much rather have Whitney alive and well.

Purely hyperbolic and likely wrong. We are the sum of all of our experiences. I wouldn't attribute your current mental health challenges solely to your father calling you a "faggot" or your mother calling you a "fat whore." You likely made your own choices along the way that made you who you are today.

R117, see R116 and tell me how that couldn't have affected Whitney.

r118, of course it affected her, I imagine it was very painful. I believe Whitney knew Cissy loved her. My parents were very disapproving of my 'lifestyle' but we all survived. You cannot reduce Whitney's troubles to her mother's "homophobia." She was probably more hurt and tormented by people she didn't know calling her a "crackhead."

Additional comment from the guy who posted the clip at R116 on X:

“Whitney is my favorite singer of all time!

Just ask any Whitney fan about Cissy or Whitney’s sister-in-law Pat—they’re not exactly beloved figures in her story.

Whitney struggled with many demons throughout her life, but those challenges were nothing compared to the monsters around her: Clive Davis, Cissy, her father, Bobby, Pat, her father John Houston, Bobby, Pat, and her brothers.

Through it all, Robyn Crawford stood by her side, loving and protecting her when no one else would. But when the bad actors pushed Robyn away, Whitney’s world started to fall apart, and it was heartbreaking to watch.”

What did Clive Davis do to her? The biopic from last year portrays him as her fairy godfather.

[quote] You cannot reduce Whitney's troubles to her mother's "homophobia." She was probably more hurt and tormented by people she didn't know calling her a "crackhead."

I would disagree. I saw in interview with John Travolta and he said that he felt very loved by his parents. He said that his parents made him feel like he could succeed at anything, acting, etc. The interviewer asked him: what if someone (not parents) had told you that you had no talent? Travolta said: "I wouldn't have believed it."

Point is: if the people early in your life make you feel loved, worthy, etc., it's hard to believe otherwise.

Yes, John T. is a closeted gay man. Not sure how his parents attitudes calculated into that.

[quote]She was probably more hurt and tormented by people she didn’t know calling her a “crackhead”.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend.

Whitney should've done what Madonna did and kept her family at arm's length.

Madonna was no dummy - she knew her family was dysfunctional and though she kept in contact with them she set up boundaries and very much lived a life independent from them.

A shame Whitney didn't do the same, she might be alive today.

Robyn finally left Whitney's life in 2000 and that was when the downhill slide really began. Whitney's shocking appearance at the Michael Jackson concert was in '01 and the infamous Diane Sawyer interview was in '02. After Robyn left Whitney just seemed to give up and the last 12 years were basically a slow suicide.

[quote] Whitney should've done what Madonna did and kept her family at arm's length.

That's what Mariah had to do eventually, as her family was also dysfunctional.

Name all the memes from the Diane Sawyer interview:

"Crack is wack"

"I wanna see the receipts"

There are others I'm not remembering.

Here's the full interview.

"I don't really know Diane, you tell me"

My partner and I still say this to each other when one of us asks the other a question.

[quote]Cissy was raised singing in the Black church so she knew and loved many of her (obvious but closeted) gay congregation members and music collaborators

And you know this personally ? You know for a fact she 'knew and loved many of her gay congregation' ? How do you know this ? Do tell...

Cissy Houston was close friends with Luther Vandross, and everyone in the business knew he was a flaming queen.

Cissy worked with Luther and she had to have known that he was gay.

R132. Lu helped Cissy style that opossum on her head in OP's article pic.

Cissy even sang at Luther's funeral. Definitely not something a raging homophobe would do.

Maybe Cissy was of the “love the sinner, but hate the sin” mindset that so many so called Christians have.

Very ugly

I bet Corpse is happy or mad

I hope there’s a casket selfie line, a drive through line, and a discrete meet&greet area for Dionne, sponsored by Check Into Cash!

Let me know if fried chicken will be served and I’ll swing by.

Will the funeral be televised live like Houston's ? Will Don Lemon be narrating (he actually did a very good job with Whitney's) ? Will Cissy's assitant / nurse be there once again, constantly leaving the front pew to go to the back of the church every ten minutes (she got the most camera time) ?

Ok, fine...you twisted my arm.

I'll bring my ole stinky ass to the services.

But don't expect me to sing. I haven't had a decent aria in me since '78.

Well...perhaps a little Porgy & Bess.

Rumor has it that Kevin Costner is still giving his eulogy.

" I'll go to the services, but don't sit me near that Dionne Warwick or Patti LaBelle. And if you want me to perform a medley of my hits, it's gonna cost you. "

I was on a therapeutic retreat when they televised her funeral and I actually canceled two seminars I signed up for because I wanted to stay in my hotel room and watch it.

I watched some of Bobby Kristina’s show.She was high-drunk- drinking on the show it was so sad and they tried to make light of it-just awful. I,can’t believe even she is gone. But we still have Leontyne Price and Dionne.

R130 I can never see that and not think of the MADTv version.

This is one of my favorites from Chaka, Cissy sounded great in the background and helped make the song

She was a Dr.!?!?!?

She was a "Dr." in the same way that Bill Cosby is a "Dr."

Honorary Doctorate.