A two-year-old clip of CeCe Winans speaking about Whitney Houston’s I’m Every Woman song has gone viral after she is purported to say that the single was “ungodly.”
In the video, the 58-year-old Detroit native is heard stating that the reason why she declined to be a part of the visuals on the album was because she does not like to be associated with anything ungodly.
“I remember she was about to do one of her big videos,” the Grammy Award-winning artist recalled. “It was, ‘I’m Every Woman.’ It’s a great video, right? Really nice… When you think about how it was written, it’s a great song, right? But the lyrics don’t line up with the word of God, right? So, she knew, she said, ‘CeCe, I want you to be in this video, but I know you not gonna be in it’ and I said, ‘You’re absolutely right’ ‘cuz it started off with ‘I can cast a spell.’ I’m not singing that!”
She continued: “Y’all get hooked on to these beats, and it’s like demonic. You’re listening to demonic stuff, and you wonder why you don’t know what’s going on. You can’t listen and look at everything. God says, ‘You’re either for me or against me. You’re either for me, or you’re not.’”
While Winans, 58, chose not to collaborate on the hit record – which sold millions of copies at the time of its release – she did work with the late megastar for Waiting to Exhale’s theme song Count On Me.
“Whitney and I were real friends, you know, um, and you hear that. People felt that,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “And I could cry now thinking about it. She knew that when she need a break, she could come, and she would come to this house and chill out. She would go to church with me.”
Houston’s career was cut short when she was found dead after drowning in a hotel bathtub a night before the Grammy Awards in 2012. Months after her death, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office revealed that the Sparkle actress died from “effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use.” Toxicologists further revealed that she had Benadryl, Xanax and cannabis in her system at the time of her death.
While paramedics attempted to revive her using CPR, she was unresponsive and declared deceased. Houston was 48.
