Mary J. Blige On ‘The View’: “I’ve Never Done Crack!”

Soul songstress Mary J. Blige candidly spoke about not only her feelings about Whitney Houston’s death, but about her own former drug demons as she sat in for Whoopie Goldbergon Tuesday’s ABC-TV’s talk show ‘The View.’

Blige, who is known for not holding her tongue when it comes to speaking her mind, reflected on the recent passing of Houston, who apparently had been a great influence in her life.  Blige admitted that she never attends funerals because she was traumatized by them as a child but felt compelled to go to Houston’s because they were so close:

“This was really sad (funeral) because Whitney was everything to women like us,” she lamented.

Blige even divulged a conversation that she had with Houston about how important she was to the world.  “I got a chance to express to [Whitney] what I felt about her and how I didn’t like seeing her like that.”  Blige was referring to Houston’s much publicized battles with drug addiction.

The 41-year-old singer, songwriter has in the past, discussed in detail her struggles with cocaine and alcohol.  Blige told her co-hosts, Barbara Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Joy Behar, how she almost died from her drug habit.  She discussed seeking out her drug supply from seedy places in the wee hours of the night.  Blige was frank about her enablers, the leeches she surrounded herself with who continuously robbed her of her paychecks by keeping her high and drunk.  The actress and fragrance entrepreneur who admitted, “I’ve never done crack,” said her self-destructive lifestyle was formed by the role models she had as a child.  “In my family, as a child, all we saw was people getting drunk.”

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