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The father of Anna Nicole Smith’s child said Friday that Whitney Houston’s daughter is going to have to be strong in the coming weeks and months as she hears the things people in the media are saying about her mother.
Larry Birkhead told “Nancy Grace” producer Natisha Lance that 18-year-old Bobbi Kristina should view parts of Houston’s life as a cautionary tale. Unlike his daughter, Dannielynn, who was less than a year old when Smith died in 2007, Bobbi Kristina will have memories of her mother’s good times and bad times.
There is a lot she can learn from those memories, he said, because she is old enough to “see the cards that life can deal.” He emphasized that she has to be careful who she surrounds herself with and she needs to have people in her life who will keep her grounded.
Birkhead also had some advice for Houston’s ex-husband Bobby Brown about being a father at a time like this.
“I would say to him to be available and be ready,” he said.
Despite all of the media attention that surrounded Anna Nicole’s death and its legal aftermath—and the continued attention from the paparazzi since then—Birkhead said Dannielynn has grown into a normal, well-rounded kid. As she gets older, though, she wants to know more and more about what happened to her mother.
“It just started out on a level of, ‘Where’s mommy? She’s in the clouds,’” he said, but he now tells her that her mother is in heaven.
“The other day, she said she wanted to hop on a cloud to touch her mommy but was afraid because she didn’t have wings,” he said.
Birkhead said there are still false stories popping up in the tabloids about Anna Nicole, and Houston’s daughter may need to be prepared for the same thing.
“Five years later, the vultures are still out,” he said.
For Nancy Grace’s exclusive interview with Larry Birkhead, tune in to HLN Friday at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET .
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Nancy Grace should have been fired a long time ago from HLN. She's prejudice, rude and appears to have some serious anger issues.
Nancy,
I enjoy your show because you cover details, but why haven't I heard anything about the note Whitney Houston passed to Brandy during a press interview. In your legal opinion, might that note be a key to understanding whether or not she was in emotional distress or in fear for her life? I agree with you regarding foul play. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Dr. Carlous Caple
Thank God for Nancy Grace and Dr Drew,
Our Loved ones are dropping dead like flies do to prescription overdose. Someone has to come out swinging and I mean with a bat to stop this insanity. I lost my beautiful sister to Klonopin, Paxcil, Buspar and God only knows what else. When we told her to try and get off these evil meds she was told by Medical people she had to take them or she would not get better. Well she grew worse and even more suicidal until the awful day came when she actually succeeded. We have never recovered and never will from that horrible 2 years straight of non stop docs giving her drugs. Give them more drugs, yep that is the answer. She wanted to get better but could only respond "you don't understand what is going on inside my head". She told the Docs the meds only made it worse.
You go Nancy and Dr Drew.
Love you and your show Ms. Nancy Grace, I am a big fan and am so glad you TELL IT LIKE IT IS, you had every right to bring up the possibilities of deach regarding the unparalleled Ms. Houston, you asked these questions with absolut respect..
I am a professional singer and voice teacher who has always said that my favorite singer ever, was Whitney Houston.
I was shocked when I heard a few years ago that Whitney was goiing back on the road to concertize in Europe shortly after she had been in rehab. First of all, her voice was a sad mess, always husky with obvious vocal cord trama, from what, we will probably never know, could have been smoking cigarettes or as she admitted, weed laced with cocaine along with other abuses ie alcohol..That along with the pressure and rigors of being on the road with drugs and alcohol everywhere..my BIG question is, how could the great Clive Davis condone her going back on the road with all the pitfalls, what REALLY was his motive, this was the beginning of the end, a perfect storm which ended tragically as it did? I believe that she was possibly supposed to sing that night, perhaps pressured into it? I have not heard ONE person mention the pressure she probably got from him (Davis) her daughter's Godfaterh! ..am I crazy that this is not an issue?? Perhaps he is an untouchable like Oprah Winfrey (of whom I am also a fan by the way), just sayin..??
bobby christina will have to shield herself from all the media and what tabloids say about whitney. She knew whitney as mom not the star. She should keep grounded on what she remembers not what evryone puts out about houston.
When someone decides to commit/complete a suicide, they become euphoric. Listening to all the accounts by her friends, employees and associates, am I the ONLY one who believes she committed suicide. If all accounts about how happy she was are true, it makes sense to me that she indeed JUST COULDN'T TAKE ANYMORE.
What amazes me is that Dr. Drew hasn't brought up the possibility of suicide because of the EUPHORIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Diana Ling Jenkins
On a serious note while reading all the comments about Whitney Houston. Thankfully not many of us blessed or cursed with talent that makes us exposed to the whole world to pull us down off the very pedestal they first set us up upon. To wake up each day knowing that whatever we wear, do, look like is fuel for comment. To know that we no longer have a private life and all our heartaches will be mocked. Having to appear when we know our looks or voice is deteriorating but that we still have to stand up before thousands is simply unimaginable to me. God rest all our "stars" that have succumbed to drugs to try to get them through. We have never had to walk in those shoes. I am not condoning the use of drugs but just trying to show some humanity
Nancy's so-called "bombshell" news today was actually given no later than the day after Whitney's unfortunate death, on a real news program! The body bag video-pic was also shown earlier this week on another station. Perhaps this program should wait to get their facts verified before spewing anything and everything said, (that is inaccurate), across the airwaves!!!
I hate the fact that Nancy Grace is implying that Whitney Houston was denied medical treatment due to drug or alcohol use. I was denied a medical procedure because of an infection I had. Once the infection was gone the procedure did happen. I am also a recovering Alcoholic and Addict.
Good evening Grace. I was just watching your show and I tried to call in. My husband and I are both on prescription drugs. We both take morphine and oxycodone for chronic pain and my husband has to take other drugs for nerve damage. If a person is on drugs for pain and it is a highly controlled drug, only a pain management doctor is to write a prescription. My family dr could not. I was on methodone and xanax and all drugs like that has a sticker placed on the bottle at the pharmacy do not use alcohol because it can intensify the effect of the drug. When we get a new prescription, we look it up on the internet to see what is the side effects and the interaction of other drugs. My niece had a man that she was dating and he was taking methodone for back pain. One week he thought that he had pulled a muscle in his back do he went to the dr, and they gave him a muscle relaxer, So before he went to bed, he took an relaxer and drank a few beers. the next morning my niece got ready for work and he was still asleep, when she got home after work he was dead. What happened is that certain drugs slows the breathing and when you mix other drugs or alcohol will slow things down even more. An autopsy was done to make sure he had not taken too many pills and there was not that he did, more that he mixed the drugs and alcohol. My husband and I have to go to a pain management dr and we had to sign a paper that we will only get our meds at the same pharmacy and if we change where we go, we have to let the dr, know. I don't think that Whitney had taken too many, I think that see took a regular dose and with the drinking it started a reaction of slowing down her breathing and her heart just gave out. If she was taking her meds during the day at the time she was to take it and started drinking for several hrs,. she was slowly dying through out the night.
People says why don't the pharmacist and drs. tell people that this could happen. My drs do and when you get a prescription, you get a print out on the side effects and what not to take with it and don't drink.
I hope that this is helpful. This is what I have to go through to get meds each month and the drs. will have you bring in the bottles to count the drugs to make sure you are not take more than you should.
nancy graces show is a live version of the tabloids you see in the grocery line checkout
Ya know Nancy, is money and ratings so important to you that you couldn't let sleeping dogs lie for one lousy night before Whitney Houston funeral? You are a greedy woman aren't you. I was a faithful viewer but this has made me sick to my stomach!
Larry Birkhead breaks silence on Whitney's death? Was he holding out? What about Larry Hagman? Is he yet to break his silence? The world waits...
Pathetic how he gets himself in the limelight over Whitney's death.
A nobody before and a nobody now.
Following Nancy for years I would like to believe she would agree that I respect the Houston family for the small and appropriate celebration of Whitney's life. The small church in lower economic area is where she started. I feel more respect for that compared to the funeral of Michael Jackson who appeared to be still yet be about money glitz and glamour at the staples center. That looked like a 3 ring circus event compared to this respectful mourning. In the end, no more struggle for her and rest in peace.
I am very surprised that nobody is actually looking into what was on the note that Whitney gave to Brandy. Was she asking for drugs? Brandy looked very shocked.
In reference to Nancy Grace's pommeling by hosts on GMA: Kudos to Nancy Grace for telling it like it is!!!
In the "real world" this story would not even get air play.
Let us not forget Houston was a grown woman who was responsible for her actions,yes it is sad she mixed and feel asleep in a tub; but she knew the consequences of mixing alcohol and RX's.
My only fear is that all of these "Hollywood Deaths" are going to cause new laws that will effect law abiding RX ,tax, and insurance paying citizens.
larry U& Ur Daughter R In Our Prayers Keep Up The Good Work!!!May God Keep BLESSING U Both!!!:)
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ENOUGH already! No more news about Whitney!
Whitney will be remembered as an icon.. As only a human she had a heart of gold.
Her gift of music will always echo in my heart ..God probably looked down and thought "Well done my precious child"
Jesus loves Whitney's daughter and family because he took my Mom home three years ago to be with him. Her spirit lives on.......
"The vultures are still out there." Who does Birkhead think he was talking to?
Really CNN? This seems more like an article that would be in a silly tabloid. Did Birkhead even know Whitney? What does he really have to add to this discussion of her death. Comparing an infant and an 18 year old young woman losing their mothers. He could have kept silent. No added value.
He's the father of a daughter whose mother died as a result of an overdose and a party lifestyle - just as is the case with Whitney Houston. His words were based on his unique and personal experience with his own daughter. Actually, I thought they were words of wisdom and well spoken. He saw the parallels between Anna Nicole Smith and Whitney Houston and their lives and their tragic endings. He didn't have to know Whitney Houston.
He "breaks his silence"????? Were people sitting around waiting with bated breath for this man to pronounce his thoughts on the matter of Whitney Houston's demise? Good grief...he's part of one of the slimiest, ugliest bunch of people in recent American history and people are scrambling to hear what he has to hear about this?
Who?
What a headline. I didn't know anyone was waiting for Birkhead to weigh in. Were the media folks camped outside his door just waiting for him to "break?"
Honestly. Please tell me. Really! Why should I care about what someone named Larry Birkhead says? I have never heard of him and from reading the article he just seems to be some sort of celebrity groupy. Maybe he needs to get a life and live his own instead of other people's lives.
CNN, really! What a slow news day that must have been! "Larry Birkhead breaks [his] silence on Whitney's death"? Someone needs to watch the interns @ CNN world domination, lest your skew on the world gets taken for real journalism. If Larry Birkhead calls a major league news organization to attach his name to a story that has absolutely nothing to do with him, don't the big wigs at your company suss out a guy that want's his 16th minute of fame? What next...Balloon Boy's dad weighs in? Very sad. Next time I want a clear story from CNN, I'll just skip the hoopla and buy a "STAR" mag in the grocery line, oh wait, I forgot to ask if that was one of your spin-off tabliods!