{"id":6885,"date":"2026-06-25T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/whitney-houstons-hairstylist-blasts-oprah-over-relapse-claims-shes-got-a-lot-of-nerve\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:18:07","slug":"whitney-houstons-hairstylist-blasts-oprah-over-relapse-claims-shes-got-a-lot-of-nerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/whitney-houstons-hairstylist-blasts-oprah-over-relapse-claims-shes-got-a-lot-of-nerve\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Houston&#8217;s hairstylist blasts Oprah over relapse claims: &#8216;She&#8217;s got a lot of nerve&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F132245856.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Oprah Winfrey continues to face backlash over her claim that Whitney Houston\u2019s had relapsed by the time of her final appearance on her legendary talk show.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 appearance was supposed to herald the singer\u2019s comeback after a stint in rehab.<\/p>\n<p>But Winfrey claimed this week that<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/23\/celebrity-news\/oprah-reveals-secret-whitney-houston-stage-fall-she-fought-to-keep-hidden\/\"> Houston was high and fell off the stage during the taping<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Winfrey was met with a swift rebuke from, among others, Houston\u2019s estate, which said she fell not because she was on drugs but because the stage was too dark.<\/p>\n<p>Now the \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d singer\u2019s hairstylist, Tiffanie Dixon, says it\u2019s baloney. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not true. She fell because they did not rope off the stage\u2026 I was standing right there,\u201d Dixon said online.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Houston appeared in a two-part interview for Winfrey\u2019s big season premiere that year. <\/p>\n<p>The former talk show told her version of event at Cannes Lions this week.<\/p>\n<p>Oprah had added she \u201cbegged\u201d her studio audience not to blab about the fall because, \u201cI knew that if the story got out\u2026 she would be destroyed by that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Oprah Winfrey is facing backlash over claims she made about Whitney Houston.  <span class=\"credit\">Syspeo\/SIPA\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Winfrey claimed Houston was high during her final appearance on her talk show.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dixon said Winfrey had people sign NDAs and also threatened, \u201cshe\u2019ll fire her staff if it gets out.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But she maintains Houston \u201cwas not high.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Houston appeared on Winfrey\u2019s show to promote her final studio album \u201cI Look to You.\u201d She was also there to address her highly publicized battle with addiction and divorce from Bobby Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon spoke out because she said Winfrey\u2019s words about Houston \u201cdisturbed me.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not true\u2026 There\u2019s not truth and no validity\u2026 It\u2019s a lie\u2026 She\u2019s got a lot of nerve,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Houston\u2019s former hairstylist Tiffanie Dixon said Winfrey\u2019s claims are not true.  <span class=\"credit\">Syspeo\/SIPA\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>A source described Houston as \u201cupbeat and happy\u201d during her last appearance.  <span class=\"credit\">Harpo Productions<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Veteran journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.showbiz411.com\/2026\/06\/24\/exclusive-oprah-insisted-five-years-ago-whitney-houston-did-not-fall-off-her-stage-because-of-drugs-on-the-record-and-on-video\">Roger Friedman of entertainment site Showbiz 411<\/a> also called out Winfrey\u2019s story, recalling a 2021 zoom with Clive Davis, where Winfrey herself said \u201cit was not drugs\u201d that made Houston slip.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Houston\u2019s sister-in-law Pat Houston oversees her estate.  <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The later singer\u2019s estate maintains \u2018she was not high\u2019 on \u201cOprah.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOprah knows her Cannes Lion statement is not true. I know where the video is, and will produce it if necessary. But every person who was on that Zoom heard it, too,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s done herself no favors by exploiting Whitney Houston in Cannes just to get headlines. I\u2019m very disappointed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>A rep for Winfrey did not respond to comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/25\/celebrity-news\/whitney-houstons-hairstylist-blasts-oprah-over-relapse-claims-shes-got-a-lot-of-nerve\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oprah Winfrey continues to face backlash over her claim that Whitney Houston\u2019s had relapsed by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/132245856.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}