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Hours before pre-Grammy awards party, pop superstar drowns in bathtub with many drugs in her system.

Photo above of the late singer with her daughter Bobbi Kristina, age 19.

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Whitney Houston 'drowned in bath after taking cocaine'

By Michael Thurston (AFP)


LOS ANGELES — Grammy-winning pop legend Whitney Houston died from accidental drowning in her hotel bathtub after taking cocaine which could have triggered a heart attack, coroners said.

Houston, who died at age 48 in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel room last month, likely had some kind of heart attack which caused her to slip under the water, said the Los Angeles County Coroner's office, on Thursday... 

You have a heart condition exacerbated by cocaine use which, combined, resulted in her drowning...

Houston was found dead on February 11, a day before the music industry's biggest awards show, and hours ahead of a glittering pre-Grammy party in the Beverly Hilton hotel where she died...

...Indeed, other drugs were found in her system, but which did not contribute to her death, the coroner's office said. They included marijuana, alprazolam (Xanax), cyclobenzaprine (Flexiril) and Diphenhydramine (Benadryl)...

...Houston was buried a week after her death in New Jersey after an emotional farewell ceremony in the Newark baptist church where she sang as a child, which was watched worldwide.

Earlier this month it emerged that Houston had left all of her assets to her daughter Bobbi Kristina, born from her troubled marriage to singer Bobby Brown, who gets nothing.

Bobbi Kristina, who is currently 19, will inherit the proceeds from all of the late singer's money, furniture, clothing, personal effects, jewelry, and cars, according to the will published on March 7.

A few days later Bobbi Kristina said she plans to follow her mother into show business, while the drug-troubled star's sister-in-law admitted her untimely death could have been predicted...

Singer's Tragic Death Vocabulary

Grammy - an award given to top singers in the US (See Wikipedia)
pop music - popular music, rock and roll that is easy to listen to and has a very large audience (See Wikipedia)
pop singer
pop legend - a very famous singer of pop music
Grammy-winning pop legend

glittering - shining with a lot of small bright flashes of light พร่างพราย
glittering pre-Grammy party

drown - to sink under the water and die (See Wikipedia)
accident - happening without being planned; unexpectedly
accidental drowning  
slip under the water - slowly go into and under the water
triggered - caused
heart attack - an interruption of the blood supply to part of the heart causing heart cells to die, symptoms include chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, sweating, and anxiety, a sense of impending doom  (See Wikipedia)
triggered a heart attack - caused a heart attack
heart condition - a heart disease or weak heart (See Wikipedia)
coroner - someone whose job is to decide officially how a person died, especially if they died in a sudden or violent way เจ้าหน้าที่ชันสูตรศพ
exacerbate - make worse (go from bad to more bad)
cocaine - a dangerous drug that is a stimulant, that makes the brain and body work very fast (See Wikipedia)
a heart condition exacerbated by cocaine use

Grammy-winning pop legend Whitney Houston died from accidental drowning in her hotel bathtub after taking cocaine which could have triggered a heart attack, coroners said. Houston, who died at age 48 in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel room last month, likely had some kind of heart attack which caused her to slip under the water, said the Los Angeles County Coroner's office, on Thursday... You have a heart condition exacerbated by cocaine use which, combined, resulted in her drowning...

drugs were found in her system - drugs were in her blood, after she took the drugs
contribute - be one thing that helped cause
did not contribute to her death

Houston was found dead on February 11, a day before the music industry's biggest awards show, and hours ahead of a glittering pre-Grammy party in the Beverly Hilton hotel where she died....Indeed, other drugs were found in her system, but which did not contribute to her death, the coroner's office said. They included marijuana, alprazolam (Xanax), cyclobenzaprine (Flexiril) and Diphenhydramine (Benadryl)...

buried - 1. when a dead body (corpse) is put under the ground (as they do in the US & Europe);  2. covered completely by something, in this case, soil ฝัง
ceremony - a formal public event งานพิธี
emotional farewell ceremony

...Houston was buried a week after her death in New Jersey after an emotional farewell ceremony in the Newark baptist church where she sang as a child, which was watched worldwide.

emerged - appeared ปรากฏออกมา came out ปรากฏให้เห็น
it emerged that ... - people discoverd and learned that
assets - things owned, especially property and money สินทรัพย์
troubled - has problems
troubled marriage - marriage had problems (husband and wife did not get along, fought, did not like living with each other)
drug-troubled star
Bobby Brown - (See Wikipedia)
inherit - to receive money, a house, etc. from someone after they have died รับมรดก
proceeds - the money you get from selling things
late - dead ที่ล่วงลับไปแล้ว
the late singer - the singer who died already
personal effects - all the things that you own
sister-in-law - the sister of your husband
untimely - happening unexpectedly early or at a time which is not suitable ไม่ถูกกาละเทศะ, ไม่ถูกจังหวะ, ไม่เหมาะแก่โอกาส
untimely death - died too early

Earlier this month it emerged that Houston had left all of her assets to her daughter Bobbi Kristina, born from her troubled marriage to singer Bobby Brown, who gets nothing. Bobbi Kristina, who is currently 19, will inherit the proceeds from all of the late singer's money, furniture, clothing, personal effects, jewelry, and cars, according to the will published on March 7. A few days later Bobbi Kristina said she plans to follow her mother into show business, while the drug-troubled star's sister-in-law admitted her untimely death could have been predicted...

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