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HOUSTON'S BODYGUARD DENIES SUICIDE ATTEMPT: Blames ‘spiritual crisis’ for eye gouging
(EURWEB.com - Feb. 7) Houston’s bodyguard is saying that the R&B singer gouged his eye out because of a “spiritual crisis,” not as part a suicide attempt.
Marco Powell, who was in the London hotel with Houston when the incident went down Tuesday, tells MTV News: "Houston is going through spiritual warfare right now. It's like good versus evil. He grew up in a Christian family, and since he's signed his record deal he's been subjected to, in his own words, 'Sins and devils in the business' like drugs, alcohol and all this stuff that he's not used to.
"He didn't want to be around that. He just wasn't happy with management - he just wasn't happy. He didn't know which way to turn. The night of the incident, we had dinner at the hotel. After dinner, he went to his room to read the Bible. He is an avid reader of the Bible.
"After I finished eating, I went upstairs to check on him and I noticed blood on the floor. Houston usually has really bad nose bleeds. So I asked him, 'Are you ok? Is your nose bleeding?' He said, 'Yeah, my nose is bleeding but I'm cool. I will see you in the morning. I can't wait to get back to L.A. with my family'."
Still believing something was wrong, Powell returned to Houston’s room.
"He was lying on the bed with a towel over his face, so something told me it was more,” said Powell. “So I walked into the room to talk to him, I pulled the towel off of his face, and that's when I saw that he had gouged his eye out. He showed no pain and he had no remorse. He said he had to do it. He said that that had freed him from everything. He was happy after that. He said he was changed and was ready to go. That symbolic statement basically freed him from all the pain he was in. He feels like he is closer to God now."
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