Whitney Houston\'s mom rescued her from drugs

Whitney Houston described her ex-husband Bobby Brown as \"my drug\" and told Oprah Winfrey on Monday that her mother saved her by forcing her into a drug treatment program, according to a report by Jill Serjeant on www.reuters.com.



Houston, 46, told Winfrey in a broadcast interview that she and Brown took cocaine and marijuana during their 15-year-marriage.



\"He (Brown) was my drug,\" Houston added. \"I didn\'t do anything without him.\"



Houston, who has previously admitted drug use, told Winfrey her addiction got so bad that her mother, soul singer Cissy Houston, turned up at her home one day with a court injunction and enlisted the help of police to force her into rehab.



\"She said, \'I\'m not losing you to the world. I\'m not losing you to Satan. ... I want my daughter back,\' \" Houston recalled. \"She said \'either you do it my way or we\'ll go on TV and (say) you\'re gonna retire.\"



Houston told Winfrey that Brown was there at the time, and her mother said, \"If you move, Bobby, they\'re gonna take you down. Don\'t you make one move! And he stood there like he was scared.\"



She confessed to playing down her fame during the marriage, which took place as her career exploded with the box-office hit movie \"The Bodyguard\" in 1992 and the hit single \"I will Always Love You.\"



\"Something happens to a man when a woman has that much fame... I tried to play down all the time. I used to say\' I\'m Mrs. Brown, don\'t call me Houston.\"



Houston\'s interview follows the release of her first studio album two weeks ago, \"I Look To You\", which entered the United States Billboard 200 chart at number one.