Ok, here's my take . . .

Regardless of whatever demons Whitney went through,
she and her music and awesome voice were a tremendous inspration to me,
esp when I first started singing back in the late 80's, and I am deeply saddened by her death.
The 'only' people I have little sympathy for are murderers and rapists, and I believe Ms. Houston was far from that.
Until any of us has reached and had to endure the degree of fame and celebrity status Whitney Houston achieved,
we may never fully understand why she and so many other celebrities fall into that drug dependent downward spin.

RIP Whitney.

-Scott