Whitney’s mother, Cissy Houston, recalls the phone ringing that night at her home in New Jersey. “When I picked it up, all I could hear was screams,” she wrote in her 2013 book. Miss Whitney. “‘Oh, mom! It’s Nippy! It’s Nippy!’ It was my son Gary on the line and he was hysterical.”
When the Grammy-winning gospel singer asked what was wrong, he replied, “They found her!…They found her upstairs and I’m not going back there.”
Cissy couldn’t get a clearer explanation from her son, she recalls, and she finally asked if her daughter was dead.
“Later, I was told I shouted so loud the whole building could hear me,” Cissy wrote, “but my mind went completely blank except for one thought: My baby has disappeared,” Cissy wrote. lost”.
