R&B Singer Houston Gouges Eye Out After Apparent Suicide Attempt
This is really sad. This guy need's alot of prayer, seriously. I pray that God heals his mind.R&B Singer Houston Gouges Eye Out After Apparent Suicide Attempt
Singer attempted to jump out of hotel window.
by Rashaun Hall, with additional reporting by Sway Calloway and Joseph Patel
After being thwarted in a suicide attempt in a London hotel room, R&B singer Houston gouged his own eye out.
On Thursday Houston attempted to jump out of a 13th-floor hotel window but was stopped by his security personnel, sources close to the singer said. He was moved to a lower floor and locked in his room, where he injured himself. Additional details are still coming to light, and photographs of his injury are circulating online.
The Los Angeles native, born Houston Summers IV, was overseas for a series of performances when the incident occurred. He scored a hit last year with "I Like That," which featured Chingy and Nate Dogg and was used in a McDonald's commercial (see "Houston Scores Club Hit With Help From Chingy, Nate Dogg"). His debut album, It's Already Written, was certified gold a month after its release in August.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Houston during this tragic time," a Capitol Records spokesperson said.
Los Angeles radio station KKBT-FM's K-Sly, who appeared in the "I Like That" video and is close to Houston's camp, said the singer had been under psychiatric care last year for manic depression. Another source corroborated that claim, adding that Houston had also struggled with PCP.
"I was told he wanted to commit suicide and stabbed his eye out," K-Sly said. "He was telling people he was Jesus and wanted to go home to his Father."
The singer is now back in Los Angeles.
Upon hearing about Houston, Bushwick Bill of rap group the Geto Boys felt compelled to speak out. In 1991, Bill forced his girlfriend to assist him in a suicide attempt, and she shot him in the eye. "Fame will make you crazy," Bill said in a statement. "Fame isn't for everybody. There are people who have a fear of fame, those who want fame, and those who don't understand fame. It drives them crazy, because it is a lot of responsibility to be all things to all people, and you can lose yourself in the shuffle, where there are no longer 52 cards in the deck."
This report is provided by MTV News
http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1496457/02022005/houston.jhtml
4 Comments:
if anybody knows of a website that will show the pic of his eye email it to jkristy@sbcglobal.net.
I cannot comprehend what would drive someone to injure their own eye like that...
It just goes to show that fame and money aren't everything and just because someone's life looks good on the outside doesnt mean it is. To bad someone couldn't have helped him before it got this far.
I heard...All I can say is wow...I'll keep you posted
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