Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody Page #9

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[MUSIC MUFFLED]

Love can do

Ain't it shocking

What love can do

Tell me, ain't it shocking

What love can do

FANS:

Whitney!

Everybody get back.

Why'd you cancel the show,

Whitney?

Are you high right now?

Have you lost your voice?

What happened to your voice?

Hey, Whitney. Are you high?

Hello.

Come on.

Hey.

Hello.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi.

Hello. How you doing?

I'm okay.

I'm okay.

Nice to see you.

Hello, sweetheart.

How are you? Come on in.

Good.

Come on in.

How was the trip?

It was good.

Was it? Good.

Yeah.

Where's the dog?

What dog?

The dog.

She's been talking about

your dog for the longest time.

I don't have a dog.

You don't?

[LAUGHS]

Hey, Marble.

Look what he's got.

Come on, Marble.

Go get the dog, Marble.

Go get it. There you go.

There you go.

BOBBI:

Marble, come back! Come back!

Cute guy.

Who is he?

I'm an open book, Whitney.

Yeah. Mm-hm.

Yeah, that you need

damn strong glasses to read.

Boy. I did not see that coming.

Well, that makes two of us.

Come here and sit with me.

And I want you to be happy too,

my dear friend.

Okay?

Yes.

So the real reason that

I asked you to come up here.

Dear Whitney, the time has come

for me to tell you...

Mm-hm.

...that you need rehab.

Okay?

The number of problems

that are arising

indicate that you're not

gonna win this battle.

And that you're underestimating

the lethal power of dr*gs.

[SNIFFLES]

Do you hear me?

I thought you didn't meddle

in the personal lives

of your artists.

Before you, in entertainment,

whether you're a Judy Garland

or you're a Janis...

...they end up losing.

You can't do it yourself.

You can't.

And how sad, I mean...

For you to affect your voice...

...to affect everything.

It's criminal.

I'm fine.

Really, I am. You know,

I got it under control.

Mm-hm.

I just need to let my hair down

sometimes. Can't I do that?

You see these?

You're on the cover

of every one of them.

And no longer for your music.

I beat the Beatles.

I beat Elvis.

I was the first Black,

all-American,

white-friendly girl.

But that ain't me.

Clive, I gave up a lot.

I know. I know.

But... I can't leave it

this way.

This is a matter

of life and death.

You need to let me help you.

Meddling.

Deal with it. Now.

You know...

...some of your favorite

performances of mine...

...I needed help.

To sing with the gods,

sometimes you need a ladder.

No, Whitney.

From the first time

that I saw you...

...I knew you didn't need

a ladder.

The gods were already there.

Mommy.

I want a dog, Mommy.

Hey. You want a dog?

You want a dog? You can have

anything you want, baby.

Anything you want.

Whitney.

Clive.

When all of my dreams

Are a heartbeat away

And the answers

Are all up to me

Just give me

Give me one

One moment in time

When I'm racing with destiny

Then

In that one moment of time

I will feel

I will feel

I will be free

[VOCALIZES]

I will be

Free

ROBYN:

Your show's over.

BOBBY:

It's finished. You hear me?

You see what you did?

No. This is what you did.

She's not doing well, Bobby,

and needs to go home.

No, she don't.

I'm running sh*t here.

Oh, yeah?

That's it.

I'm tired of your sh*t, Robyn.

Bobby, it's clear to everybody

she's not well

and needs to go home.

Come on. Let's get her home.

Yeah?

Yeah.

That's what's best.

All right. All right. Okay.

We should--

We should ask her, right?

Let's ask her.

Talk to her.

Baby. Baby.

Yeah?

You wanna go home?

'Cause we can. You know

we can do that if we want.

We can always do that.

Do you want to go home, baby?

No.

No.

No, I don't wanna go.

Yeah. See?

I'm taking care of her.

That's it?

That's it. Yeah.

Is that what you're doing?

Is this what you're doing?

Taking care of her with this?

Is this how

you taking care of her?

You better watch that tone,

Robyn.

I'mma keep my tone.

All right.

Listen, Nip. I will not

sit around and watch this...

...anymore.

I'm tired of this, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I'm not doing this now.

I'll deal with this later.

Why do I gotta deal

with everyone else's sh*t?

You right, baby.

You gotta get to that

venue anyway.

Yo. I'm sick of you, Robyn.

And I'm sick of you.

Yo, Nip. He doesn't deserve

you, okay? He never has.

This man never deserved you.

Hey, look. Look. Look.

This is through.

It's through, Robyn. Done.

And your dad's

in the hospital.

What?

Daddy?

BOBBY:
Yeah.

Yeah. He in the hospital.

Yeah, baby.

I was gonna tell you.

I was gonna tell you

after the show.

After the show.

Yeah. Whatever.

I'm done with this sh*t.

No.

Nip, I'm done.

BOBBY:
Yeah.

Rob? Robyn.

[DOOR SLAMS]

NURSE [OVER PA]:

Lawrence, regarding

a patient on line two.

Lawrence to line two.

Whitney.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey, Daddy.

You can just leave us.

I'll be out of here

in a day or two. You'll see.

No.

No.

No. Not until the doctors

say you can.

Daddy, you're gonna get

the best care in the world.

I got to get out of here.

Take care of business.

No, you don't.

Not anymore.

Pat's handling everything now.

So you can just relax

and get better.

What are you talking about?

Pat?

It's okay.

Pat's managing me now.

You've lost your mind,

little girl.

I've been taking care of

everything. Your whole life.

Who do you think

was looking after you

when your mama was

going off on them tours?

Changing your diapers?

Me.

So, you ain't taking over sh*t.

It's done.

It's over.

Yeah? What about

the millions you spent?

You blew on Bobby.

Court cases, lawyers,

your private jets.

My private jets,

my money, Daddy.

My mind's made up.

Let's go forward.

Then you better get yourself

a good lawyer.

You hear me?

Daddy.

And you better pay me

all the money you owe me.

Daddy, what money?

My piece

from that new record deal

that I negotiated for you

with Arista.

I negotiated that.

I took care of it.

Okay, like you're taking care

of your new wife

by coming after me?

One hundred million dollars.

There's no one hundred million.

They pay by the album, and I

haven't done any new albums yet.

As of right now,

it's almost all gone.

You let me down, Daddy.

And now you're breaking

my heart.

I know you and Bobby

are hiding it.

You get me my money, princess.

No. No. I'm not your princess.

I'm not your princess no more.

Yeah?

No more.

Yeah.

[COUGHING]

[]

PASTOR:

We return to the earth...

...the body of our brother

John Houston.

How long has it been like this?

Mommy.

[SIREN WAILS]

Hey, baby. Hey, gorgeous.

Everything's fine.

Everything's gonna be fine.

OFFICER:

Watch your head.

Hey. Hey, baby?

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