Celebrities: Celine Dion, Whitney HoustonCategories: Hot Topics, On a Serious NoteTags: Celebrity Addiction, Celebrity Deaths, Good Morning America

Celine Dions Speaks About Her Love For Whitney Houston on ABC's 'Good Morning America'

Posted on February 13, 2012 - 10:14am by Ciara

Fellow music legend Celine Dion is just like the rest of us and is left shocked and saddened at the loss of Whitney Houston. She called into ABC’s Good Morning America this morning where she spoke to Robin Roberts about her sadness of the news and how drugs could have been the main cause.

“Whitney’s been an amazing inspiration to me,” Dion said. “I’ve been singing with her my whole career, actually. I wanted to have a career like hers, sing like her, look beautiful like her. It’s just very unfortunate that drugs, and, I don’t know, bad people or bad influences took over. It took over her dreams, it took over her love and motherhood…I mean, you think about Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, to get into drugs like that for whatever reason, is it because of the stress, the stress and bad influence, what happens?”

Celine Dion speaking into a mic, Whitney Houston smiling over her shoulder

While the actually cause of Houston’s sudden death is still unknown, many are speculating that some sort of drugs is to blame, due to Whitney’s openness of her addiction. Dion addressed how the music icon’s legacy will forever live on as time passes. “It’s tragic. Her music will live forever, but it’s not enough. Time after time we lose people – it’s too soon and there’s no time for that. I mean, taking pills to go perform and taking pills to wake up and taking pills to go to bed…It’s so unfortunate.”

With shocking celebrity deaths happening year after year due to the influence of alcohol or drugs, Celine lives in fear of what could happen to her if she surrounds herself in that environment. “There’s something that happens that I don’t understand, and that’s why I’m so scared,” she said. “I’m scared of show business, I’m scared of drugs, I’m scared of hanging out, and that’s why I don’t do parties and hanging out, and that’s why I’m not part of show business. We have to be afraid.”

As haunting as her words are, they’re so very true. But do you agree with her?

What do you think about Celine’s words on Whitney?

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