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(Chicago Sun-Times) Whitney Houston’s death Saturday may have been caused by an accidental drowning — perhaps due to the superstar falling asleep in the bathtub of her Beverly Hilton Hotel room after taking a prescription medication to make her relax.
A hotel source told the Sun-Times early Sunday that Houston’s team — including her hairdresser, two bodyguards and her stylist — “were literally hysterical when they realized the singer was dead … as soon as they found her in the tub.”
According to the source, the bodyguard “kept saying over and over and over again, ‘I knew she was dead the second I saw her. I just knew it, I just knew it.’ ”
Despite that fact, TMZ reported Sunday the bodyguard attempted CPR and, when he didn’t get any response, a call was placed to both hotel security and 911.
While Houston’s long battle with addictions — ranging from cocaine to alcohol and more recently prescription drugs — was well known to both her inner circle and many in the music industry, her death came as a horrible shock to her immediate family.
“Bobbi Kristina [Houston’s daughter] was apoplectic when she arrived at the hotel. … and then she got really abusive when they wouldn’t let her in to see her mom’s body,” said the hotel source. “I can’t say I blame her. But the police were just following procedures.”
The hotel room was sealed until the Beverly Hills Police could finish a complete and thorough sweep of the premises that reportedly included the discovery of various potent medications including Lorazepam, Valium and Xanax.
According to a longtime friend of Whitney’s Grammy-winning gospel singer mother, “Cissy [Houston] absolutely could not stop screaming for about half an hour, after getting the news” of her daughter’s untimely death.
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