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Whitney Houston Continues to Plummet

Whitney Houston was once considered to be one of the top performers of her time. Her voice and range are incredible and few singers have ever come close to the intensity she adds to a song. But this talent is no more. Whitney Houston got lost somewhere along the line, and drug use seems to be a key factor. The former entertainment mogul was once asked if she does crack and her response, "I don`t do crack, crack is cheap", paints a clear picture on her habits. Tina Brown, the sister-in-law of Whitney Houston says the singer has become a sometimes toothless crack addict who sees "demons" and behaves so badly she even gets thrown out of seedy crack houses.

Pics in a National Enquirer story shows the superstar singer`s private bathroom after she has locked herself away for days on yet another self-destructive binge. Amid the trash, leftover food and empty beer cans are the tools of the hardcore drug fiend ? pipes, rolling papers, spoons in which powdered cocaine is cooked into crack, lighters. According to Tina, Whitney hallucinates and sees demons when she`s high, she bites and beats herself black-and-blue but blames the devil for the injuries.

More revelations: Whitney allegedly lost her $6,000 set of false teeth when she was high and appeared toothless, scaring the kids at her niece`s school, and that she smokes as much as an "eight-ball" (1/8 of an ounce) of crack at a time, mixing it with marijuana encased in a cigar wrapper. Tina, 42, a recovering addict herself, says she and Whitney were "drug buddies" for many months, and said: "I did crack with Whitney. The truth needs to come out. She won`t stay off the drugs. It`s every single day. It`s so ugly. Everyone is so scared she`s going to O.D."