Whitney Houston Enters Rehab

Whitney Houston attends the Clive Davis And The Recording Academy's 2011 Pre-GRAMMY Gala at The Beverly Hilton hotel on February 12, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Whitney Houston has entered an outpatient treatment program, a representative of the multiplatinum singer confirms to Us Weekly.

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"Whitney Houston is currently in an outpatient rehab program for drug and alcohol treatment," Houston's rep tells Us in a statement. "Whitney voluntarily entered the program to support her long-standing recovery process."

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The "I Will Always Love You" singer has been open about her drug use in the past, telling Diane Sawyer in a 2002 Primetime interview that she had "at times" used marijuana, cocaine and pills to get high.



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Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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