Whitney Houston’s hell and inevitable death

A drug-using family. Heartbreaking dysfunction. Allison Samuels on why no one could save Whitney Houston from herself

IN her final flight back home, singer Whitney Houston should have been surrounded by those who truly loved and cared for her.

A few aboard the private plane that carried her body had been there for Houston through thick and thin. Her manager and sister-in-law, Pat Houston, was there, as was her beloved cousin, singer Dionne Warwick.