00:04Whitney Elizabeth Houston, a.k.a. The Voice.
00:08We lost her Grammy weekend ten years ago.
00:11And it's hard not to think of Whitney when you think of the Grammys.
00:15And the Grammy goes to...
00:17Whitney Houston.
00:18Whitney Houston.
00:23But if you only know Whitney for her voice,
00:26then you don't really know Whitney.
00:28Sometimes I look at it and I go,
00:29how did all this happen?
00:31God gave me something really great,
00:33and he doesn't give it to everybody.
00:35They can't take away my dignity.
00:41Now, for the first time, never-before-seen interviews.
00:44They take your life and they make it into a soap opera,
00:47like a story they made up.
00:50And personal stories from her closest friends.
00:53As hyper as she could be,
00:55she was like a kid in a candy store all the time.
00:57I get a call.
00:58Whitney and Bobby forgot to pay their tab.
01:01She was ready to live.
01:03Ready to start a new chapter
01:05and to get right what wasn't right before.
01:12This is Whitney, A Look Back.
01:18Whitney Elizabeth Houston.
01:20Now, anybody in her inner circle or her family members called her Nippy.
01:25Her daddy.
01:26Her daddy gave me that nickname.
01:28He used to call her Nippy.
01:31He used to call me Nippy.
01:32Because I had Nippy around me so much.
01:35Nippy and Nippy.
01:36What do you think fans would be most surprised to discover about Whitney Houston?
01:40They'll be glad to know that I'm like them.
01:42You know, that I joke around, I laugh, I'm really crazy, really crazy.
01:49You know, when I wake up in the morning, I'm not all that put together.
01:53You know, nobody is.
01:55You know, that kind of thing.
01:57You know, I'm just like them.
01:58Just, you know, regular.
02:01Regular.
02:02She wanted to, you know, let's go to White Castles in a limousine.
02:07That's Whitney.
02:08I want some White Castle.
02:09Really.
02:10Right now.
02:11Um, so just a lot of fun.
02:13A lot of fun.
02:15Great sense of humor.
02:16Funny.
02:17To be able to have time off and just laugh was her favorite thing to do.
02:24Oh, she was a nice person.
02:26She laughed.
02:27You know, she liked no confusion at all.
02:30That wasn't her thing.
02:32She couldn't stand all of that.
02:34We really got along fine, you know.
02:36There's a lot of love in our house.
02:40She loved to swim.
02:42She was almost like an Olympic swimmer.
02:45But these are all things that people don't know.
02:50What I do for fun is, uh, I'm just very peaceful.
02:53I stay at home most of the time.
02:54I play some tennis and I swim and I have massages and things like that.
03:00Um, basically being good to myself is what I call being fun.
03:03Or having fun.
03:05Um, I go out sometimes, but, um, I don't like to keep up with, you know, what's happening
03:09and going to this place and that place.
03:10I'm really not into it.
03:12But, um, just being, you know, with myself and my family and, you know, staying at home,
03:18listening to music, singing, it's fun to me.
03:22So, Whitney's favorite thing to do when she was at home?
03:24Relax.
03:25Just chill.
03:25She was lazy as all, you know, uh, she loved watching television.
03:32She's always going to hold the place that she holds in history, in music, hopefully in our
03:38heart.
03:41I hope that you've enjoyed me as much as I have enjoyed you.
