Whitney Houston was sexually assaulted by her older sister

News24xx.com -  American singer Whitney Houston was the victim of sexual abuse by her relative. This is told in the documentary film "Whitney", which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, reports «BBC Channel”.

The tape of Scottish director Kevin MacDonald tells the story of the life of a dark-skinned artist who died in 2012 at the age of 48 years. The filmmaker interviewed relatives of Houston, who told that the cousin of the singer, Dee Dee Warwick, abused her as a child.

Warwick allegedly subjected sexual violence to Whitney and her half-brother Gary Houston. The singer's cousin, who suffered from drug addiction, died in 2008 at the age of 63.

In July 2016, Houston's only daughter, 22-year-old Bobby Christina Brown, died. In the girl's body were founded marijuana, alcohol, cocaine, tranquilizers and morphine.

The body of Whitney Houston was found on February 11, 2012 in a hotel room in Los Angeles. The examination showed that the cause of death was heart failure and cocaine use.