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'Primetime' Interview Preview submitted by: Devin, Patrick, Ollando, Monty, Matt, Bill, Sean source: ABC, Drudge, Reuters, Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly Date: December 3, 2002 Party Girl Past; Whitney Houston Admits Past Drug Use, But Singer Says "I'm Beyond It" Dec. 3 - After years of mysterious cancellations and erratic behavior, Whitney Houston has admitted using drugs, but says the problem is in the past. In a rare interview, Houston told Primetime's Diane Sawyer that she has used alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and prescription drugs at different points during her career. "I partied a lot. Trust me: I partied my tail off," she said, adding, "You get to a point where you know the party's over." When the singer made a guest appearance at a Michael Jackson tribute concert last year, her bone-thin appearance and unsteady stance provoked audible gasps from the audience, and raised questions about her health. When she failed to show up for a second performance three days later, there were rumors that she was dying - and even that she was dead. But the days of her self-destructive behavior are over now, she says. "That was a moment in time that happened to me, that I was going through, that I'm over. I'm beyond it. It's past. It's done," she told Sawyer. Houston said the rumors about her health were wrong. "I am not sick," she said. "Let's get that straight. I am not sick, OK? I've always been a thin girl. I am not going to be fat, ever." She denied having anorexia or bulimia, but admitted that she sometimes has difficulty eating. "If my nerves are bad, and if I have an emotional stress going on in my life, it's very hard for me to eat and stomach things," she said. Houston faced a drug possession charge in January 2000 after an airport guard in Hawaii allegedly found marijuana in her handbag, but the charge was later dismissed. In the Primetime interview, she firmly denied tabloid reports that she had used crack cocaine. "Crack is cheap. I make too much for me to ever smoke crack," she said. "Let's get that straight, OK? I don't do crack. I don't do that. Crack is whack." ‘I Won't Break' Today, Houston says, she is determined not to let drugs become a problem in her life again. Asked whether she can control her drug problem now, she said: "I'm not as excited any more about it. ... It was new, I partied, and it's done." And when asked whether she will completely stay off drugs, she said, "Well, I'm not going to tell you that," but added that she is not self-destructive and does not want to die. "I'm a person who has life, and wants to live," she said. She said she prays every day that she will have the strength to keep off drugs. "I won't break." In Atlanta - where she lives with her husband, R&B singer Bobby Brown, and their 9-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina - Houston said she is surrounded by a group of "prayer partners," people she thinks of as her form of rehab. One of the most important is Perri Nixon, a friend who is now her pastor, and who she says has taken her "by the hand on a spiritual journey to get back home." Missed Concerts Not too long ago, many wondered if Houston's career and her personal health were in jeopardy. The second Jackson concert was the latest in a string of last-minute no-shows by Houston. In the spring of 2000, organizers canceled her appearance at the Academy Awards, and a few weeks later she failed to show up at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to help induct her mentor and longtime producer, Clive Davis of Arista Records. At the time, her publicist attributed the Oscar cancelation to a sore throat, but Houston told Primetime she was "fired" because she was "not getting along with" the director, Burt Bacharach, during the rehearsals. "I had an attitude about it," she said. She said the no-shows have been blown out of proportion compared with her record during her 17-year career. "If you look at the stats of how many concerts I did, and how many concerts I missed, there's no comparison," she said. "I've done more shows in my lifetime than I've missed in my lifetime." She said that, looking back at the concerts she has missed, she feels bad for the fans. "That's the only people in the world, the public, the fans ... that I apologize to. Because if I don't have my best to give, then I can't give it to them." Pressure From a Young Age Houston's career took off when she was just 17, when Davis heard her singing in a nightclub. Two years later, in 1985, her first album, Whitney Houston — with songs like "How Will I Know" and "Greatest Love of All - was the best-selling female debut in history. All told, she has had five No. 1 hits and has won six Grammy awards. She says the pressures of working and sustaining her reputation as one of the world's greatest voices were hard from the beginning. "I had no time to grow up. I had no time to party," she said. "I didn't even date in my 20s. I wasn't that normal 20-year-old young woman going through her phases. I was a millionaire by the time I was 22." When men seemed interested in her, she worried that they were after her money, she said. At times, things got so bad that she would stay in her room for days, she said. After a while, she decided to rebel. "I think I kind of reverted back as I got older and said, 'Well, I'm just going to party,' you know," Houston said. "It was kind of a rebel in me." Houston's new album, Just Whitney ..., her first original album in four years, is the first she has made without Davis' guidance. She said the album, being released next week, represents "the Whitney that has endured 17, 18 years of the music industry... older, maturer, wiser woman." A new stress in Houston's life is a $100 million lawsuit filed against her by an entertainment company her father, John Houston, runs with a partner, Kevin Skinner. The lawsuit claims the singer failed to pay the company for help in getting the Hawaii marijuana charges dropped and negotiating her contract with Arista. Houston said the company was never hired but declined to go into detail, saying only that she is hurt by the lawsuit. "My father is 81, very sick. His health is failing," she said. "Somebody who my father's associated with has put him up to some -has put fear in his heart as if he's not my father." Turbulent Marriage Houston's marriage to Brown has lasted, too. When they married in 1992, many people thought they were mismatched: she a regal queen of soulful pop, and he a raunchy R&B singer whose star was already waning. "They didn't give us six minutes to last," she recalled, adding, "We've gone 10 years." The couple have separated twice during that time, Houston said, because of the pressure of their careers and the public scrutiny that goes along with them. In one much-publicized incident, there was a news report that Brown slapped her in a Honolulu parking lot in 1997 — but both Houston and Brown, who sat in for portions of the Primetime interview, say he has never hit her. In the parking lot incident, Houston said, Brown chased her around the car but did not strike her. Brown said he was surrounded by female relatives when growing up. "I would never raise my hands in any kind of way to them," he said. "I love the beauty of woman, and this is mine," he said, indicating Houston. Brown has had his own problems with drugs and alcohol. After crashing Houston's Porsche into a Hollywood signpost in 1996 while driving drunk, he repeatedly violated his probation conditions, and spent two months in jail in 2000 after his probation officer said he tested positive for cocaine. (Prosecutors dropped the drug-test charge after he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.) He was even arrested in Atlanta on the morning of the Primetime interview, Nov. 7, for allegedly speeding, driving without a license and having marijuana in the car. He told Sawyer he smokes marijuana "maybe every other day" to help regulate a bipolar disorder. He said he has never used other drugs, and denied there was cocaine in his system when he took the drug test in 2000. "I tested for a substance like cocaine, which can be anything. It can be an aspirin. It can be a Valium," he said. While Houston said her husband "sometimes" becomes jealous of the attention she gets, Brown, denied it, saying he "never" gets jealous. "I adore her just like the average fan," he said, adding that she and his wife both excel in their fields — she as a singer and he as a performer: "She has her part and I have my part." XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE DEC 03, 2002 11:31:08 ET XXXXX WHITNEY EXPLAINS IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DIANE SAWYER, WHITNEY HOUSTON SPEAKS FRANKLY ABOUT RUMORS OF DRUG USE, HER MARRIAGE WITH BOBBY BROWN, HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER FATHER AND THE 2000 ACADEMY AWARDS CONTROVERSY... In a much-anticipated exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer, Whitney Houston finally addresses head-on the widespread rumors about drug use, her marriage to Bobby Brown, her strained relationship with her father and her now-infamous cancelled performance at the 2002 Academy Awards, among other topics. MORE The interview, which was recently conducted at Houston's Atlanta home, will air on a special edition of “Primetime," WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET), on ABC. The Whitney interview runs the entire hour, network sources tell DRUDGE. Portions will also hit Wednesday runs of GOOD MORNING AMERICA. Now excerpts from the interview can be revealed: On her drug use: DIANE SAWYER: ... Is it alcohol? Is it marijuana? Is it cocaine? Is it pills? WHITNEY HOUSTON: It has been at times. SAWYER: All? HOUSTON: At times. Uh-hm. SAWYER: And the... if you had name the devil ... for you ... the biggest devil among them ... HOUSTON: That would be me. It's my deciding ... it's my heart. It's what I want ... and I don't want. Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the bigger devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. And that's how I have to deal with it. On her current health: HOUSTON: I'm not sick, Diane. I am not sick. Let's get that straight. I am not sick. Okay? I've always been a thin girl. I am not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay? On her past lifestyle: HOUSTON: My business is sex, drugs, rock and roll. You know? (Laughs) My friends, we have a good time. But as you get older and you get wiser...you stop a lot of the kid stuff...I had no time to grow up, I had no time to party. I didn't even...date in my ‘20s...It was rough. It was rough. I think I kind of reverted back as I got older and said, 'Well, I'm just gonna party,' ...It was kind of a rebel in me... HOUSTON: Well, I partied a lot. Trust me. I partied my tail off...you get to a point where you know it is ... the party's over... On additional rumors about drug use: SAWYER: This says 730 thousand dollar drug habit. This is a headline. HOUSTON: Come on! Seven thirty? I wish. No. I wish who ever was making that money off of me would share it with me. No way. No way. I want to see the receipts. From the drug dealer that I bought 730 thousand dollars worth of drugs from. I want to see receipts. Yeah, right. On whether she considers herself an addict: SAWYER: Do you think of yourself as an addict... HOUSTON: Hey, I'm addicted to a few things... SAWYER: Like?... HOUSTON: ... making love...I don't like to think of myself addicted. I like to think... I had a bad habit ... which can be broken... On the pressures she has faced: HOUSTON: It wasn't always about ... the drugs. It was ... mother, father ... brother, sister ... family ... daughter ... trying to balance it all ... career ... music ... new this ... new that ... new this. Making decisions. A lot of it had to do with that ... emotional. I would stay in my room for days ... for days at a time just trying to get it together ... to know what my next phase was going to be... On when she turned the corner: HOUSTON: When they said... I had died, I did. I changed my mind. I changed my mind. Yeah. Because I didn't want to look like the rest of them. I didn't want to be like them... SAWYER: Do you think you came close? HOUSTON: I think it was as close as anybody... can get. A lot of folks have come closer. But that's as close as I want to be. That's as close as I think it gets...and I don't mean any harm to anybody... it frightened me. I don't want to ever be in the realm of, where I am caught in a mold, and I can't get out. Never. That's over. I'm beyond it... On changing her ways: SAWYER: ...Can you control it now? In a different way? HOUSTON: I'm not as excited anymore, about it...It was new. I partied, and, it's done... SAWYER: ...But now do you say, not at all? Or do you say, I can ... HOUSTON: Well I'm not going to tell you that...I am not self destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, and wants to live. And always have... HOUSTON: I pray every day, Diane. I'm not the strongest every day, but I'm not the weakest, either. And I won't break. And I won't break. SAWYER: ... But you seem so confident of it now, because usually people treat it with kind of fear and respect and say, "I don't know. I'm gonna go ... day by day"... HOUSTON: listen..... it's not easy. It's not easy. But I'm not gonna tell you I'm somebody's junkie. No, I'm not. I've had my time ... On leaving the bad days behind her: HOUSTON: ...I've talked to people who have been through rehab... a lot of people that come through it ... come through it with God. They tell you in a rehab that 90 percent of you are going to return. That's not nice ...So what I did ... is I looked in my soul to see what was missing. And it was the spirit man that was missing. That they were trying to suck dry out of me. My spiritual being. And once I refueled that ... I put gasoline in that ... I'm good to go...If I hold on to that... I can be strong enough to fight the battle. On her thinness: SAWYER: Anorexia... HOUSTON: No way. SAWYER: They've written it. HOUSTON: No way. SAWYER: Bulimia. HOUSTON: No way. SAWYER: That it's because of drugs. HOUSTON: No...Now, I'll grant you, I partied... But there have been times when...I was going through a lot of emotional stress. And my eating habits were awful... Bobby Brown on drug use: BOBBY BROWN: Me and drugs. We're not friends. We're not friends at all...I used to smoke a lot of marijuana ... a lot... SAWYER: But marijuana's still in your life. BOBBY BROWN: ... I'm a very high-strung person... I'm bipolar. It seems to help me ... from going up and down... I'm diagnosed bipolar. And it helps me to keep... a level in my life, you know? SAWYER: But isn't there Lithium?... BOBBY BROWN: I can't take Lithium ... HOUSTON: ....He was catatonic, you know... his spirit was dead...took his whole spirit away ... BOBBY BROWN: And, you know, I couldn't work, I couldn't do nothing ... so...every now and then ... I smoke a joint ... Every now and then. You know. It's not an every day thing... it keeps me calm. Keeps my spirits well... Brown on alcohol: SAWYER: I'm looking back ... 1995 ... you said "The bottle's out of my life." BOBBY BROWN: ...It wasn't. HOUSTON:That takes the place of that. And it's hard. Because we're rock 'n' rollers, man. You know... BOBBY BROWN:...That's the life we live here. Houston on her controversial Michael Jackson special appearance: SAWYER: The Michael Jackson VH1 appearance.... HOUSTON: Didn't I fit right in?...That was the craziest thing I'd ever experienced in my life. SAWYER: But tell me about you that night...you had been partying? Is that part of it? HOUSTON:Um, well Diane, I can't say it was like an every day kind of thing, yeah. I hung out with some friends and I partied, but, that week, the week before I came to Michael Jackson, Aaliyah had died... On her non-appearance at the Oscars: HOUSTON: ...I was fired (Laughs) from the gig. I didn't mind. I really didn't want to do it anyway... I was past that ... I'm past that and it's over now. SAWYER: Why were you fired? HOUSTON: Because I was ... not getting along with the guy that was directing (Laughs) the whole thing [Burt Bachrach], who've I've known since I was a kid... SAWYER: ...I think you said laryngitis, at the time. I don't think that's what you said. HOUSTON: ...I had gotten the bronchitis...And I asked him just for a day, just to get it together. And that's a long story. SAWYER: Yeah, but Faith Hill had to come in at the last minute? HOUSTON: Yeah. Because I wouldn't go. I didn't want to go...I had my reservations about that whole thing... I was kind of pissed off. I had an attitude about it. And rightfully so. You know? I should not have been on the show and ... and they fired me and ... that was it. And I went home. On cancelled appearances: HOUSTON: Like I said ... look at my record ... see the concerts I've done ... and see how many I've cancelled in the 17 years of career ... and add it up... On the effects of stress: HOUSTON: They talked about me from the time I stepped out there, man. I had to overcome a lot of adversity. Never mind the drugs, or whatever, you know, and all this stuff. They talked about me from the time I stepped onto the scene...I want them to have the best of me. And if I'm not the best of me, I don't want to step out there and do it. I won't. So know that it's because of that. Not because I don't love you. But because I don't have the best to give...people have to understand... the vocal chords are only muscles. When they get tired, and they say I am tired they don't work... On her marriage to Brown: HOUSTON: ... you just never picture Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston together. Who did?... And they didn't give us six minutes to last. We've gone 10 years...Love is where you find it. It's where you find it. And I found it in him. And he found it in me. Brown on the turbulence of their relationship: SAWYER: But why is it so turbulent? BROWN: I think marriage is turbulent. You know, we're just in the public eye. You know? A lot of people, you know, that are married go through worse problems than us. On her new CD: SAWYER: If every album is a snapshot of a moment in time, what is this one of? HOUSTON:I think it is the Whitney that has endured 17, 18 years of music industry. Whitney that has endured slander and criticisms and all kinds of things. But this is a older, maturer, wise woman. SAWYER: How much does it matter to you if it succeeds or not? Can you insulate yourself from that? Can you really say I don't care, it's what I want to do ... HOUSTON:Yes... I'm not looking for hit records anymore. SAWYER: You're really not? Really? HOUSTON:I mean...don't get me wrong, I want hit records. And it's cool to have them. But what I'm looking for mostly are songs that inspire people...I love music, Diane. I love to sing...I don't want the pressures of trying to have a number one song anymore... On parting ways with Clive Davis: HOUSTON: Emotionally, I went through a lot of changes. A lot. A lot. I cried...All of a sudden just say one day he's not there. He's gone. That hurt. A lot. On the lawsuit her father has filed against her: SAWYER: Your father's filing suit against you. A hundred million dollars. HOUSTON: (Laughs) BROWN: (Whistles) SAWYER: Do you feel betrayed? HOUSTON:... it hurts. SAWYER:Have you talked to him? What has he said to you? HOUSTON: My father is ... 81 ... very sick. His health is failing. Somebody... who my father's associated with... has put fear in his heart... as if he's not my father ... I'm not his daughter. And all I can tell you, Diane, is that it hurts right now. And I've been dealing with it ... and we'll work it out ... 'cause no matter what ... he's my dad. And I'm his daughter. And I love him ... and I know he loves me. They'll never get a $100 million out of me ... I know that!... SAWYER: Do you still love him? HOUSTON: Absolutely. He gave me life. Before all of this ... there were years I can't forget. The bad part about it is that it's about money. And that really sucks. That ... that hurts more than anything... On Britney Spears: SAWYER: You like Britney? HOUSTON: I love Britney. SAWYER :Yeah? HOUSTON: Yeah, I think she's sharp. SAWYER: Who else do you love, out there?... HOUSTON: Well ... let's put it this way. Although I'm in popular music, I really don't listen to it. I listen to gospel. I'm a gospel girl. On whether she has any apologies to make: SAWYER: And looking back... do you apologize... HOUSTON: Yeah, there are things I apologize for. But the things I apologize for, like ... concert dates. There was things I apologized for, because the people really mattered to me. They mattered to me. And I know they came out to see me. And I apologize for that. I'll make it up to you. But that's the only people in the world, the public, the fans, are the people that I apologize to. Because if I don't have my best to give, then I can't give it to them... On leaving the past behind her: SAWYER: And how sure are you that those bad days you talked about are behind you?... HOUSTON: I know that I'm ... I'm on the right path ... because I'm back home ... where I started in here. I can't tell you it's all going to be perfect, Diane...I'm a very prayerful person, even in the midst of the trouble, of the battle, I had to pray...I don't care what anybody else says or did or what they claimed I was, I know I'm a child of God. And I know he loves me. Jesus loves me. This I know. Developing... Whitney Houston Acknowledges History of Drug Abuse By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop diva Whitney Houston, confronting health and lifestyle questions that are clouding her career, acknowledges a history of drug and alcohol abuse but insists in a rare television interview that "the party's over. In the interview with ABC television to be broadcast on Wednesday night, Houston also denied persistent rumors that she is suffering from eating disorders. "I am not sick. Let's get that straight. I am not sick, OK?" she told Diane Sawyer in the interview which is to be aired on ABC's "Primetime" days ahead of the release of "Just Whitney..." her first album of all new material in four years. Excerpts of the interview were released by the network on Tuesday. In it, the 39-year-old entertainer addressed a wide range of questions about her private life, including her stormy marriage to singer Bobby Brown, who was arrested last month in Atlanta and charged with drug and traffic offenses. Asked about her own history of substance abuse -- "Is it alcohol? Is it marijuana? Is it cocaine? Is it pills?" -- Houston answered, "It has been at times." "All?" asked Sawyer, to which Houston replied, "At times. Uh-hm." But Houston added, "I don't like to think of myself addicted. ... I had a bad habit ... which can be broken. ... I'm not gonna tell you I'm somebody's junkie." "My business is sex, drugs, rock and roll. You know? My friends, we have a good time. But as you get older and you get wiser ... you stop a lot of the kid stuff," Houston said. "Trust me. I partied my tail off ... you get to a point where ... the party's over." FIRED FROM OSCARS Houston insisted her religious faith would see her through tough times. "I'm on the right path ... I'm a very prayerful person, even in the midst of the trouble, of the battle." Questions about Houston's health and behavior have been swirling in gossip columns for years, stoked in early 2000 when she was abruptly dropped from the performance lineup of the Academy Awards broadcast and again by her gaunt appearance at Michael Jackson's tribute concert last year. She also was arrested at an airport in 2000 for marijuana possession, but the charges were later dropped. Houston acknowledged she was fired from the Oscars by the show's producer, her old friend Burt Bacharach. "I didn't mind. I really didn't want to do it anyway," she said. "I had gotten bronchitis ... And I asked him just for a day, just to get it together. And that's a long story." She also vehemently denied that her thinness was the result of an eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia. "No way," she said. "I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight." She said at times of emotional stress her "eating habits were awful." Houston also appeared on camera with Brown, former member of the R&B group New Edition, who acknowledged that he smokes marijuana on occasion to help him cope with manic depression. "I'm diagnosed bipolar," Brown said. "Every now and then ... I smoke a joint ... It's not an every day thing ... it keeps me calm. Brown said he is unable to take Lithium for his disorder, and Houston explained, "He was catatonic. took his whole spirit away." Houston also said she still loves her 81-year-old father despite the $100 million lawsuit his entertainment company has filed against her alleging breach of contract. "We'll work it out, because no matter what, he's my dad. And I'm his daughter," she said, adding, "They'll never get $100 million out of me. I know that!" Whitney Houston Acknowledges Drug Abuse NEW YORK (AP) - Whitney Houston admits she's abused drugs in the past, but says she's gotten beyond that time through prayer. The Grammy-winning singer also discusses the pressures of stardom and her decade-long marriage to Bobby Brown in an interview with Diane Sawyer on "Primetime," scheduled to air at 9 p.m. EST Wednesday on ABC. When Sawyer asks her, "Is it alcohol? Is it marijuana? Is it cocaine? Is it pills?" Houston responds, "It has been at times." "All?" Sawyer asks. "At times," Houston says. "Uh-hm." The 39-year-old concedes she's "addicted to a few things." "Making love," Houston says. "I don't like to think of myself addicted. I like to think ... I had a bad habit ... which can be broken." Houston's shockingly thin frame at last year's Michael Jackson tribute sparked reports that she was ill, which she vehemently denies. She also says she's not anorexic or bulimic. "Let's get that straight. I am not sick. OK?" she says. "I've always been a thin girl. I am not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Brown also appears in the interview, and says he's frequently used marijuana because he's been diagnosed as bipolar. The 33-year-old was arrested last month in Atlanta on drug and traffic charges. "Me and drugs. We're not friends. We're not friends at all," Brown says. "I'm a very high-strung person. ... (Marijuana) seems to help me ... from going up and down." Houston says she's done partying now, and has found strength through daily prayer. Her new album, "Just Whitney," comes out Dec. 10. "I'm not the strongest every day, but I'm not the weakest, either," she says. "And I won't break." All At Once Whitney Houston acknowledges drug use. In Wednesday's Diane Sawyer interview, the singer and hubby Bobby Brown both come clean about their use of marijuana and other drugs. By Gary Susman Whitney Houston has been ''addicted to a few things.'' So she says in an interview with Diane Sawyer airing on a special edition of ABC's ''Primetime'' on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press account of a transcript of the interview. ''My business is sex, drugs, rock and roll... I partied a lot,'' the 39-year-old singer says, in an excerpt reported by E! The interview was taped recently at Houston's Atlanta home as part of the publicity blitz for ''Just Whitney,'' the Grammy winner's new album, which hits stores Dec. 10. During the interview, AP reports, Sawyer asks which drug Houston has abused, asking, ''Is it alcohol? Is it marijuana? Is it cocaine? Is it pills?'' Houston replies, ''It has been at times.'' Sawyer asks, ''All?'' ''At times,'' Houston says. There's been a lot of speculation over Houston's health over the last few years, from her arrest on marijuana charges at a Hawaii airport a couple years ago (the charges were ultimately dropped) to her emaciated appearance at last year's Michael Jackson 30th anniversary special. ''Let's get that straight. I am not sick. OK?'' she says, according to AP. ''I've always been a thin girl. I am not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever.'' Houston says she's overcome her drug past through daily prayer. ''I'm not the strongest every day, but I'm not the weakest, either. And I won't break,'' she says, according to a partial transcript released by ABC. Avoiding drugs is a matter of will power, she adds. ''It's my deciding ... it's my heart. It's what I want and I don't want. Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the bigger devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.'' Her husband, singer Bobby Brown, who was arrested last month on charges including marijuana possession, tells Sawyer that he smokes pot to alleviate the symptoms of bipolar disorder. ''Me and drugs. We're not friends. We're not friends at all,'' Brown says, according to AP. ''I'm a very high-strung person. ... [Marijuana] seems to help me ... from going up and down.'' According to the network transcript, Houston also discusses her family turmoil, including the $100 million lawsuit her father's management company has filed against her. ''It hurts right now,'' she says of the legal imbroglio. ''And I've been dealing with it. And we'll work it out, 'cause no matter what, he's my dad. And I'm his daughter.'' Still, she says, ''They'll never get $100 million out of me ... 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