By SHEILA MARIKAR and KEVIN DOLAK | Good Morning America
Whitney Houston's brother-in-law vehemently denied today that the singer had any intention of committing suicide.
"Oh, no, this is accidental," Billy Watson told ABCNews.com. "She
wouldn't have left her daughter like that. She wouldn't have done that
to her daughter."
Watson, whose sister is married to Houston's brother, Gary, also said
the family is flying back to New Jersey from California today and
Tuesday, but there's no word on funeral plans.
Los Angeles assistant chief coroner Ed Winter maintained at a news
conference today that officials do not know the 48-year-old singer's
cause of death. He confirmed to ABC News' L.A. affiliate KABC that
officials found prescription bottles in Houston's hotel room, but said
there wasn't anything "alarming" or "out of the ordinary" about them.
They were all "pretty normal" prescriptions, Winter said, adding, "I
have more prescriptions than what was found in her [Houston's] room."
TMZ
reported earlier today that family sources briefed by coroner officials
were told Houston likely died from a combination of the drug Xanax and
other prescription medication mixed with alcohol.
Houston's aunt, Mary Jones, found the singer's body in the bathtub after
laying out a dress for Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party that Houston was
set to attend Saturday night, sources told TMZ. She attempted to perform CPR; half an hour later, at 3:45 p.m., someone from Houston's entourage called hotel security.
Investigators looking into the death of Houston have said that they will
be examining the pop icon's behavior in the hours and days before she
was found dead in the bathtub. They have already questioned the singer's
family, friends, and staff.
Houston's official cause of death will not be determined for six to eight weeks, pending toxicology results.
Meanwhile, Houston's 18-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown,
has been struggling with her mother's death. She was hospitalized
Sunday for "stress and anxiety," a family source told ABCNews.com. She
was released Sunday afternoon as her father, Houston's ex-husband Bobby
Brown, boarded a plane to L.A.
TMZ reported that on Friday night, Bobbi Kristina fell asleep in another bathtub at the Beverly Hilton. Friends had to contact hotel security so she could be removed from the tub.
Houston, who struggled with drugs and alcohol and entered rehab for the
third time last year, reportedly spent Friday night at the bar of the
Beverly Hilton hotel with a group of friends. She was at the bar for a
long time, drinking and being very loud, according to TMZ.
Houston gave her last performance on Thursday at Grammy nominee Kelly Price's party at Tru, a Hollywood nightclub.
"We laughed and we joked and we cracked up, and we danced and sang,"
Price said. "She was never more than two feet from me the entire night. I
gave her a hug, and while I was talking to her she said 'Give me the
mike.'"
"In retrospect it's a much bigger moment than I could have imagined,"
she added. "It was a big moment just because it was Whitney. The world
got a gift in that they got an opportunity to see her perform one last
time."
Photos taken later that night show Houston leaving the club looking
disheveled and disoriented. She reportedly had blood dripping down her
leg and scratches on her body.
"It was a great event and she left sweaty, and I have heard the word
'disheveled,'" Price said. "That's about right. When you stand for three
hours and in that time period you are dancing. You would leave a club
looking that way.
Price added that Houston "didn't look like she was under the influence
of anything. She drank some champagne and toasted Kelly Price's three
Grammy nominations Thursday night. That's what Whitney Houston did."
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