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Whitney Houston enters drug rehab center
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-03-17 11:22 Grammy-winning pop singer Whitney Houston has
entered a drug rehabilitation facility, her publicist said.
Grammy-winning pop
singer Whitney Houston [File photo] | Houston
"thanks everyone for their support and prayers," publicist Nancy Seltzer said in
a statement Monday. She declined to offer any further details.
Houston, 40, admitted in a December 2002 television program that she had abused drugs
in the past, but told interviewer Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Primetime" that she had
gotten beyond that time through prayer.
Houston's husband, R&B singer Bobby Brown, was sentenced to 60 days in
jail in late February for violating probation. One of the violations included a
December misdemeanor battery charge for allegedly striking Houston, leaving her
with a bruised cheek and a cut inside her lip.
In January 2000, Houston left behind a bag at Keahole Kona International
Airport in Hawaii that allegedly held less than half an ounce of marijuana and
three partially smoked marijuana cigarettes.
In 2001, a petty misdemeanor drug charge relating to the incident was
dismissed against Houston after a drug counselor filed an assessment with
prosecutors stating that Houston did not require treatment for substance abuse.
Brown and Houston have been married since 1992 and have a 10-year-old
daughter, Bobbi Kristina.
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