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Whitney Houston will be buried in Newark, New Jersey, not far from the church where people first heard that incredible voice of hers.

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It's a long way and a far cry from where they last heard her sing, that impromptu performance Thursday night.

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She'd been drinking some champagne despite her recent stay in rehab. You heard Kelly Price say she was happy.

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There's no denying that her last two decades, though, have been difficult to say the least. More tonight from Randi Kaye.

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Whispers about Whitney Houston's troubles began to surface shortly after she appeared in this Michael Jackson tribute concert.

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Looking rail thin, the appearance fueled rumors that her health was rapidly declining.

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She defiantly denied those rumors in this infamous 2002 interview with Diane Sawyer,

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insisting that she didn't have an eating disorder and didn't have a crack addiction.

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Whitney dying, crack rehab fails.

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First of all, let's get one thing straight: Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight, OK?

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We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is wack.

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This says $730,000 drug habit. This is a headline.

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Come on! Seven-thirty? I wish!

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No, I wish whoever's making that money off of me could share it with me.No way. No way.

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Still, she admitted to battling other demons.

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Is it alcohol? Is it marijuana? Is it cocaine? Is it pills??

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It has been, at times.

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All??

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At times.

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If you had to name the devil for you, the biggest devil among them??

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That would be me.

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Houston also had a turbulent marriage to singer Bobby Brown.

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Married in 1992, some pointed to their relationship as a primary source of Houston's troubles. Houston publicly denied that Brown abused her.

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Has he ever hit you??

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No, he's never hit me, no. I've hit him in anger.

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That marriage and her erratic behavior eventually became reality-show fodder on Bravo's Being Bobby Brown.

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But that show did little to burnish her reputation.

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We've got to live with SARS. We've got to live with (expletive) -- what's that -- anthrax.Mmm, mmm.

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Ah, you just watch too much TV.

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Kiss my ass!

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In her later years, Houston attempted something of a comeback.

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She divorced Bobby Brown and released an album in 2009 that debuted at number one on the Billboard charts.

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But her tour was reportedly plagued with vocal difficulties, and in 2011 her publicist admitted Houston was seeking help for addiction.

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Before her death Houston was still trying to rehabilitate her image.

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She completed another movie, Sparkle, speaking about it with the TV show Extra.

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I think over the years being a mother -- the married to mother, the whole thing -- you know what I'm saying? I have matured in so many ways.

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And my daughter is my greatest inspiration. She has trained me for this role. She has trained me. She trained me good.