Whitney Houston is considered one of the greatest singers of our generation. According to the Guinness Book of Records, she holds the record for the most awarded female artist of all time. I chose her as a topic because she represents resilience and tenacity, despite her troubled experiences with drugs and her personal life. Whitney Houston comes from a family with an extraordinary musical pedigree; his mother, Cissy Houston, was a successful backup singer for Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley. Dionne Warwick is her first cousin and Aretha Franklin is her godmother. In 1983, Houston signed a contract with Arista Records and music executive, Clive Davis, became her mentor and helped her launch her successful career. Whitney Houston was known as the innocent girl next door, who promoted positivity and love in her professional career. Houston's good girl image was shattered when she married R&B bad boy, Bobby Brown in 1992. By the late 1990s, she was said to be using drugs and looked very thin. In 2006, Houston divorced Bobby Brown and entered rehab, to end her addiction to cocaine and other drugs. The world was happy to see her healthy and singing again; everyone thought she had fully recovered and was ready for her to reappear in the spotlight. Tragically, on February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found dead in her Beverly Hills hotel, she was 48 years old. Her mother, Cissy Houston, wrote a book about her daughter's life, titled: Remembering Whitney, which details the rise and fall of the singer's tragic life. The purpose of my article is to evaluate the reasons why Whitney Houston began using drugs and how they played a professional and personal role in her life. I have used the paper man we want to become, whether it is professional or personal. I feel like Whitney had a sheltered life and never had the ability to live a normal life. In turn, she began lashing out at her family and the public because she couldn't maintain the standard everyone expected of her. For this reason she indulged in drugs, to free her from the drama and unhappiness in her life. Drugs don't solve the problem, they actually make things worse, because you focus on numbing yourself from the pain, so you can continue to manage your daily life. There is nothing wrong with having no inhibitions and letting go of everything that consumes you. I believe that if Whitney could have established her identity at an early age and freed herself from the pressures of her family and the media, she would still be alive and happy.