What universe are you from?

I don't know if Cedric Wood is just incredibly naive or if he is from some other universe. He's trying to find someone to blame for Whitney Houston's death. He says Whitney Houston had to have "endured something sufficiently wounding to end up so addicted to drugs." No, she didn't. Some people just use drugs because they want to -- they may end up not wanting to, but initially, they use them because they think it's cool or they want to be like their friends or they want a new experience or they're just plain showing off. Whitney had everything she could want -- an apparently good mother, positive role models, fame, money. According to her childhood friends, they had a happy childhood. Whitney's father was not only a father to her, but a father figure to the children in the neighborhood as well according to Toni Gregory. It was Whitney's decision alone to ruin her voice with cigarettes and subject her body to drugs and an abusive man.

Cedric says Whitney didn't get the "understanding or sympathy she deserved." How does he know that? And just what about her made her deserving of my sympathy? Cedric says we must delve into the first 15 years of her life to find the underlying reason for years of drug abuse and mental torment. After numerous internet searches, the only thing I can find besides a happy Houston family life is that her parents, like thousands of others, were divorced. Does Cedric know something we don't? Or does Cedric know nothing at all?

"Don't blame fame." The Dallas Morning News; February 20, 2012; p. 16A.