Whitney Houston: Talks about abusive husband

Whitney Houston: Talks about abusive husband

During an interview Singer Whitney Houston confessed that her life with former husband Bobby Brown descended into a nightmare of drugs and fights, and that at one point he painted "evil" eyes on the walls of their home.

Forty six year old Whitney Houston, who returned to world of music after a span of seven years, told chat show host Oprah Winfrey in the interview broadcast on Monday that her and Brown's drug-of-choice was marijuana mixed with cocaine. The pair divorced in April 2007 after 15-year of married life.

Houston said that during the couple's narcotics-filled days, Bobby Brown would break glass objects in their home, and at one point he started painting eyes in their bedroom.

Houston said, "Evil eyes that were looking at every point in the room." She added that Brown, a singer who had a hit with the song "My Perogative," would paint on rugs, walls and closet doors, and that he used spray-paint.

Houston told Winfrey, "I'm looking at it and going, 'Lord, what's really going on here?'" "Because I was getting scared, because I felt something was going to blow, something was going to give."

Houston told Winfrey that her addiction got so bad that her mother, soul singer Cissy Houston, turned up at her home one day with a court injunction and enlisted the help of police to force her into rehab.

Houston recalled, "She said, 'I'm not losing you to the world. I'm not losing you to Satan. ... I want my daughter back,' ", "She said, 'Either you do it my way or we'll go on TV and (say) you're gonna retire."

She said she tried to play down her fame during the marriage, which took place as her career exploded with the box-office hit movie "The Bodyguard" in 1992 and the hit single "I will Always Love You."

"Something happens to a man when a woman has that much fame... I tried to play down all the time. I used to say' I'm Mrs. Brown, don't call me Houston."

Houston recalled a time when Brown spat on her when he had been drinking.

Brown, in an interview with celebrity TV show "The Insider" conducted before Winfrey's interview with Houston aired on TV, said he and Houston "corrupted each other."

"I don't think she hurt me or I hurt her," he said. "I just think we had a ... marriage that had its ups and downs and not many people understood it."

Houston's interview with Oprah Winfrey follows the release two weeks ago of the singer's first studio album in seven years -- "I Look To You" -- which entered the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at No. 1. Whitney Houston's record label Arista said that the album also debuted at No.1 in other countries like Canada, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.