In a 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Whitney Houston admitted that she used drugs every day during the filming of her 1996 movie “The Preacher’s Wife.” That film’s director, Penny Marshall, a friend of Houston’s, tells Showbiz Tonight’s A.J. Hammer that she saw no signs of drug abuse during that time.
“I had no problems working with her, she always knew her lines,” remembers Marshall. “She was happy, she laughed, she was very funny, by the way.”
Joyful and spirited is the way Marshall will remember Whitney, who she was supposed to meet up with at the Clive Davis party night of her death.
“She was very happy, she wasn’t depressed, she wasn’t, you know, sad,” says Marshall. “So I didn’t see her doing any drugs nor did I see any effect of them on her.”
Don’t miss more of Showbiz Tonight’s continuing coverage of Whitney Houston’s life and death all this week at 11 p.m. ET on HLN.
Programming Note: All this week, tune in to HLN’s Nancy Grace at 8 p.m. ET, live from Hollywood, for up-to-the-minute details surrounding Whitney Houston's death, followed by Dr. Drew at 9 p.m. ET with more on the singer's battles with addiction. HLN will begin live coverage at 9 a.m. ET Saturday for funeral events in New Jersey on “Farewell to Whitney Houston.”
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