Did anyone hear about Houston?

[Sweet One]

The hip hop artist...not the city.

He tried to commit suicide..but his security people stopped him. They locked him in a room and when they came back to check on him, they found that he gouged his eye out!!!!

Apparently he was really depressed and was previously hooked on a drug that when taken in high doses causes one to be suicidal or manically depressed.

Read more here: http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2005/02/0302.cfm

Crazy.

[berrywoman]

get the hell ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooutta here!! :stunned:



thas twisted yo! :pimp2:


nah..but seriously.. thats bananas!!! :stunned:

[Sweet One]

that is bananas, eh? :stunned:

[berrywoman]

how the hell do you gouge your eyes out!!! :dead:

[LiquidSky]

how the hell do you gouge your eyes out!!! :dead:

umm please don't say it..'cause then I'm gonna be wanting to gouge mine out too! :stunned:

[berrywoman]

dang.. I just read the article... it doesnt say.. but its till some fucked up shite..

[LiquidSky]

dang.. I just read the article... it doesnt say.. but its till some fucked up shite..

It is..

Depression is worst than any other disases, it's sad :(

[Egghead]

dang.. I just read the article... it doesnt say.. but its till some fucked up shite..

It is..

Depression is worst than any other disases, it's sad :(

finally some recognition. *puts on depression baseball cap* go team!

[gib786]

I read about it a few days agp, its v fucked up. I didn't read that he had been hooked on a drug that causes depression or suicidal feelings though. The guy had the talent to go far in the r'n'b field as well which makes it even more shitty

[gib786]

Some more info i found on a website:

NEW YORK -- The devil made him do it, representatives for R&B singer Houston said in a statement explaining how his eye was seriously gouged. Houston's publicist issued a statement saying Houston "found himself in the midst of a spiritual battle against the evil that runs rampant in the entertainment industry."

Houston, whose 2004 single I Like That was used in a McDonald's commercial, was found in his London hotel room Thursday with a serious eye injury. He was briefly in hospital.

"Houston was lying on his bed with a towel over his face and I removed the towel to find his eye hanging out," said bodyguard Marco Powell. "He said he had to get the devil off of his back and that's the only way he could kill the devil."

The publicist's statement quoted Houston as saying: "I still love all my fans. Please pray for me and know I'll be back with some more hits."

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

:o :/

[Terra]

I did hear about that. Tragic. How the hell do you gouge your eye out in a hotel. I mean, come on. I don't mean to be unsympathetic but what could cause him to do that?

[Sweet One]

:stunned:

that's crazy.

[::Hayley::]

:sick:

[Gas_Man]

oh God!...that's really awful..surely someone should have had the sense to stay with him. I think there's a big leap from depression, even from manic depression, to someone wanting to scoop out an eyeball. I can understand that someone can go through a certain frame of mind to want to carry out some sort of controlled body harm, but taking out your eye is something i've never ever heard of..i don't think he has long left on this earth!

[berrywoman]

he claimed that the devil made him do it.. :stunned:

[Gas_Man]

sounds like his brain was pretty messed up with. i never understand when things like that manage to happen to famous people...with the amount of people who are around them, being paid to look after them..yet it still happens :/

[berrywoman]

the mind is a powerful thing.... :/

[*Justine*]

Gross pic of his gouged eye:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ohnotheydidnt/1053550.html#cutid1

[berrywoman]

I soooooooooooooo wanna see it.. but at the same time.. I'm afraid to! :stunned:

[Sweet One]

I made the mistake of pressing that link. Oh holy shit. That looks so bad. :confused: :confused:

[::Hayley::]

I seriously can't believe that they left him alone - my god, the poor guy.

[berrywoman]

oh my freakin GOD!!!!! I clicked..... :stunned: Jesus Christ Almighty!! Holy Mother of God!!! crikey!!! holy batwings batman!!! WTF! arrgghh! ugh! what more can I say... :stunned:


:dead:

[::Hayley::]

:dizzy2:

[Sweet One]

:sick:

[gvargas]

that is freaky that he gouged his eye out

[*Justine*]

I didnt think the link was that bad.... :P

[Eagle131]

Holy fuck, that's nasty...but at least it's better then loosing to depression, if you know what I'm trying to say. My friend commited suicide on X-mas eve. He thought that his life sucked, an that he had no friends. The poor kid, I tried to help him but I just couldn't. So all you houston fans (which I am not, lol) be thankful he's alive.

[berrywoman]

I agree ^ I lost a friend to suicide... he never thought he was good enough and his parents always neglected him. All he ever wanted was to be loved... :embarrased:

[Reilly]

I dunno about anyone else, but is that really Houston in that picture?

I mean, theres no details of where it came from, who took it, when it was taken. It seems like such an exclusive thing, the record label hardly said anything, I just doubt theres a picture of him now floating around the net.

[cold_kitty]

ooh i heard about this and couldn't believe it! that's terrible. urgh, and i'm definitely too chicken to click that link. i don't want to see the horror!!