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LOS ANGELES. Singer Whitney Houston described her ex-husband Bobby Brown as "my drug" and told Oprah Winfrey in an interview that her m...

LOS ANGELES. Singer Whitney Houston described her ex-husband Bobby Brown as "my drug" and told Oprah Winfrey in an interview that her mother saved her by forcing her into a drug treatment program.

Houston, who has previously admitted drug use, told Winfrey 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 said Brown was emotionally but not physically abusive during their marriage, although she recalled a time when he spat on when he had been drinking.

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." Houston's interview with Winfrey follows the release of the singer's first studio album in seven years -- "I Look To You".

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