Whitney Houston is making her comeback and made an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show. Read more and see video below Whitney Houston’s interview with Oprah that reveals her emotional abuse from her ex-husband, Bobby Brown.

Singer Whitney Houston has a new song out called “I Look To You, and went on Oprah to discuss her difficult marriage to Bobby Brown, drug abuse, and her experience with rehab.

Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were married for fifteen years and Whitney revealed that he was emotionally abusive and almost like a drug for her. She also said they did drugs such as cocaine and marijuana together.

“At home, he was very much the father, he was very much the man,” Houston said. “He was very much in control. I liked that. When he said something, I listened. I was very interested in having someone have that kind of control over me. It was refreshing.”

“He was my drug,” Houston told Winfrey of Brown. “I didn’t do anything without him. I wasn’t getting high by myself. It was me and him together. We were partners.”

Whitney, who has custody of their teenage daughter Bobbi Kristina, claims she does not hide the true from her daughter and even took her to an Atlanta drug rehab for mothers and children.

Here’s Whitney Houston on Oprah Winfrey:

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Oprah is firing right back at Chris Brown after he said that her show on domestic violence inspired by his assault on Rihanna felt like a slap in the face. Damn… you don’t want to piss off Oprah!  Read what she had to say below.

Oprah did a show on domestic violence after the news of Rihanna’s beating came out in the news.

Here’s what Chris Brown had to say about the show and Oprah in People magazine:

“I commend Oprah on being like, ‘This is a problem,’ but it was a slap in my face. I did a lot of stuff for her, like going to Africa and performing for her school. She could have been more helpful, like, ‘Okay, I’m going to help both of these people out.’”

But Oprah didn’t hesitate to comment about what Chris said in a statement through her rep to TMZ:

“Oprah is very appreciative that Chris Brown performed at her school but she takes domestic abuse very seriously. She hopes he gets the counseling he needs.”

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Whitney Houston made an appearance, her first in years, singing on Good Morning America on Monday. Read more on Whitney’s performance and see video below.

Houston’s voice reportedly cracked as she was singing but she blamed it on a taping she did Monday for ‘Oprah.’ “When I’m talking, I should be singing,” she told the audience.

Whitney performed with lots of energy and yelled out “love you!” during the first line of “Million Dollar Bill,” but she danced instead of singing during the first chorus.

“I love you New York,” she announced at end of the song. “I love you Good Morning America. God bless you all. Thank you for coming, you’re making me feel so good.” She then ran upstage to hug host Diane Sawyer, who Houston called “one of my dearest friends.” Sawyer is the journalist who conducted the infamous “crack is wack” interview in 2002 during which Houston disclosed she had struggled with drug problems. “I’m overwhelmed with love and support, your prayers mean so much to me and I love you all for coming,” Houston told the crowd, adding defiantly, “I never left!”

“Seven years ago, looking in each others’ eyes, it was a very different world then. I was worried for you,” Sawyer told her. “Don’t be worried anymore. If you know God, then don’t be worried,” Houston replied, saying it was “my faith” that brought her here now. “The love and support of my family, which I do have. People who care about you in the good and bad times.” In 2002, Houston told Sawyer, “I partied a lot. Trust me: I partied my tail off. You get to a point where you know the party’s over.”

“I Look to You is about them, all of you all, and that one up there,” she said in Central Park, pointing skyward.

Later in the show Whitney said, “I’m going to do something extra for you, from me to you, this isn’t planned, it’s impromptu,” before starting “My Love Is Your Love.” Singing “See, I got my baby, can you give me a mic, y’all” she welcomed her Bobbi Kristina to the stage to sing a few lines.

“I owe this to my mother. This is the title track to my album, y’all,” Houston said next, before turning to face her mother, Cissy, for the ballad “I Look to You.” “You never left, you stayed, I love you,” she said, looking up with her arms stretched to her sides. After another commercial break she returned bouncing up and down and kicked off “I’m Every Woman,” and had hosts Sawyer and Robin Roberts to join her.

What do you guys think of Whitney Houston’s first performance in years?

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Star Jones talks to Oprah about her weight struggles. Jones says doctors warned her she would die if she didn’t drop weight from her onetime 307-pound frame. Read more on Star Jones on Oprah below.

Star Jones finally talks about her battles with her weight and her gastric bypass surgery.

“I was an addict for all practical purposes, that I had never stuck to a real diet, that I’d never stuck to a real exercise program,” the former View cohost says in an episode of The Oprah Winfrey.

“The doctor said, ‘If you don’t make changes, you will die.’ I had no choice,” Jones continued.

Jones, 47, is still a bit sensitive about the criticism on her decision to undergo gastric bypass surgery – that helped her drop 160 pounds in 2003.

“When you hear people say, ‘Oh, you took the easy way out….’ I would have longed for an easy way. It was not an easy way. It was…the hardest struggle of my whole entire life and I still struggle,” Jones said.

Even though she’s kept the weight off, Jones admitted: “I’m still 300 pounds in my head some days.”

“I was ashamed…That’s the word that is actually the real word. I was ashamed that I couldn’t control my weight, that I was an addict for all practical purposes, that I had never stuck to a real diet, that I had never stuck to a real exercise program” Jones told Oprah.

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Rihanna and Chris Brown’s domestic drama has been a huge topic of discussion. And now Oprah Winfrey gives Rihanna and Chris a little advice. See video of Oprah on Rihanna below.

So what does Oprah think about all this on Chris Brown beating up girlfriend Rihanna?

“Chris Brown and Rihanna, if I was your friend, I would call you up and I would say, ‘Give it some time, get yourself some counseling, take care of yourself,’ ” Winfrey said during a live, roundtable discussion Friday on her talk show. “‘Heal yourself first.”

She additionally strongly advised, “And also, love doesn’t hurt. I’ve been saying this to women for years: ‘If a man hits you once, he will hit you again.’ “

Moved by the allegations of abuse, and the fact that Rihanna is still dating Brown, Winfrey says she plans to dedicate an upcoming episode of her show to the topic of domestic violence.

“It makes me so sad that I said to the producers, ‘I want to do a show about it this week dedicated to all the Rihanna’s of the world,’ ” Winfrey said, citing a statistic that one out of four women in the country are battered.

Sitting at the table with Winfrey, Gayle King echoed her friend’s sentiments while she also weighed in about the pop stars’ relationship.

“My thing about this is, if you guys want to get back together, I’m okay with that, but at least take some time,” she said. “I’m so worried that she’s sending the wrong message to the fans. And him, too.”

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See the video on Oprah discussing Rihanna below:

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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich made an appearance on ABC’s “The View” Monday. See the video of Rod Blagojevich’s interview on “The View” below.

Joy Behar asked Blagojevich to do his “fantastic Nixon impression” by saying, “I’m not a crook.”

When Blagojevich said he is innocent of all wrongdoing and would not do the Nixon impression, Behar proceeded to tussle Rod Blagojevich’s hair.

“I’m an innocent man. For me to resign would be to admit I did something wrong, which I did not do,” Blagojevich said.

The Illinois governor is accused of trying to sell President Obama’s U.S. Senate seat in a pay-for-play scheme, and he took to television to lash out at his accusers.

A very interesting part of Blagojevich’s appearance was him saying that he had considered naming talk show host Oprah Winfrey to Obama’s vacated seat.

“She seemed to be someone who would help Barack Obama in a significant way become president,” he said. “She was obviously someone with a much broader bully pulpit than other senators.”

The governor worried, though, that the appointment of Winfrey might come across as a gimmick and that the talk show host was unlikely to accept.

Winfrey told long-time friend and radio talk show host Gayle King Monday that she was surprised to hear she had been considered for the seat.

“If I had been watching as I — as I watch from the treadmill — I’d probably fallen off the treadmill,” Winfrey told King on King’s Sirius satellite radio program.

“I didn’t know till the Gayle King show called and told me,” Winfrey said.

She added that she was “pretty amused by the whole thing,” though she said, “I think I can be senator too, I’m just not interested.”

Blagojevich ultimately appointed former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to the vacant seat.

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Oopsy!  Jill Biden, wife to Vice-President elect Joe Biden, let it slip that her husband was offered his pick of jobs under Obama. Read more and see video of Joe Biden shushing Jill Biden below.

On the Oprah show, Jill Biden said President-elect Barack Obama had given her hubby, Joe Biden the choice of being secretary of state or vice president. Joe Biden attempted to hush his wife as soon as she had spoken, with a loud “shhh!”.

The Bidens were making a surprise appearance on Winfrey’s show, which was being recorded at the Kennedy Center for broadcast later Monday on the eve of the inauguration.

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Joe Biden said he only accepted Obama’s offer to be his running mate after talking it over with “Jilly,” his pet name for his wife. Mrs. Biden said she told him vice president would be better for the family.

“If you’re secretary of state, you’ll be away, we’ll never see you, you know,” she said. “I’ll see you at a state dinner once in awhile. But I said, if you are vice president, the entire family, because they worked so hard for the election, they can be involved. They can come to our home. They can go to events, they can be with us all the time. And that’s what’s important to us.”

The vice president-elect didn’t really talk about wife Jill’s comments, but said he didn’t immediately take the vice presidential offer since he wasn’t sure it was the best place for him to serve. But Biden, who ran against Obama in the Democratic primary race, said he agreed after getting some assurances from Obama about his role.

“This is a partnership,” Biden said. “He’s president of the United States, but as I said to him when he asked me, I said, `Barack, don’t ask me unless the reason you’re asking me is, you’re asking me for my judgment. I get to be the last guy in the room before you make every important decision. You’re president. Any decision you make, I will back.’ “

“He said he wanted to have a confidant and somebody who wouldn’t be a yes man. He’s pretty sure about that” last part, Biden said with a laugh.

And of course we all know that the secretary of state’s job went to another Obama campaign rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Bet she loves to hear she wasn’t first choice!

Watch video of Jill Biden’s oops moment on Oprah below:

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Oprah Winfrey, the talk show queen, is a former crackhead? WTF?  Yes, sounds crazy but apparently it’s true! Read more on Oprah Winfrey smoking crack below.

Back in 1985 when she was a news anchor, Oprah Winfrey used to smoke crack according to her old boyfriend, Randolph Cook who included this information in his book. Betcha this book won’t be included in Oprah’s book suggestions.

Her former boyfriend, Randolph Cook, had this to say:

“Oprah made a “rock” of cocaine and baking soda in the tube and heated it, a method known as freebasing.

“[Oprah] then put the lit torch on the rock, inhaled and held the smoke in her lungs for a long time. When she finally exhaled, she began to shake violently as she put the pipe down, she had trouble catching her breath and her eyes got big as saucers.”

We smoked at least a couple of times a week. Sometimes we would smoke up until her limo was waiting to take her to the studio to perform her show…”

Oprah had actually confirmed her drug-use in a show that she had taped back in the 80’s. She revealed the following:

“In my 20’s, I’d done this drug and I know exactly what you are talking about.” She said the drug use occurred while she was an anchorwoman on a television news show.

“It’s my life’s great big secret. It was such a secret because–I realize (with) the public person I have become–if the story ever were revealed, the tabloids would exploit it and what a big issue it would be.”

She went on to explain, “But I was involved with a man in my 20s who introduced me to the same drug that you’ve been talking about and, like Patrice, I always felt that the drug itself is not the problem but that I was addicted to the man.” She admitted: “I can’t think of anything I wouldn’t have done for that man.”

So evidently the fact that Oprah smoked crack back in the 1980’s is true by her own admission, but the question remains who introduced who to doing crack?

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Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has been named “Person of the Year” by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Read more about Winfrey’s honor below.

Winfrey was chosen for using her talk show to bringing to light important animal rights issues. Oprah has focused on puppy mills and the treatment of animals in factory farms. Winfrey also went on a vegan diet for a week, and in April, dedicated an episode of her show to her late cocker spaniel Sophie, who died at age 13.

Winfrey has “used her powerful voice to defend those without one,” PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said in a statemement. Oprah Winfrey wasn’t available for comment but will receive a plaque and a letter of appreciation.

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Previous winners of the PETA award include U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia in 2007 and the founders of the San Francisco-based cleaning product company Method in 2006.

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Oprah Winfrey talks about her weight struggle in the January issue of “O” Magazine.  Oprah says she is embarrassed she has “fallen off the wagon” of healthy living and has gained to over 200 pounds. Read more on Oprah’s weight gain below.

In January’s “O” magazine, Winfrey, 54, details her recent struggles with an out-of-balance thyroid and how the condition made her develop “a fear of working out.” She says she’s gained 40 pounds since 2006, when she weighed 160.

“I look at my thinner self and think, `How did I let this happen again?’” the talk-show queen says in the article provided early to The Associated Press by Harpo Productions.

“I’m embarrassed,” she says. “I’m mad at myself.”

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Winfrey’s weight and height put her body mass index at 31.8, which is obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Winfrey says she’s not even trying anymore to be thin, she just wants to be strong, healthy and fit. She hopes to get started with her upcoming “Best Life Week,” starting Jan. 5 with an episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” during which she is expected to talk candidly about her weight.

Winfrey famously wheeled a wagon loaded with fat onto the set of her talk show in 1988 to represent a 67-pound weight losswhile wearing a pair of size 10 Calvin Klein jeans. She had lost the weight with a liquid protein diet.

“When it comes to maintaining my health I didn’t just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me,” the chairwoman of Harpo Inc. writes. “I didn’t follow my own fundamental rule of taking care of self first.”

In 2005, Winfrey said she starved herself for four months to lose weight. Ever since, her weight has yo-yoed. She weighed as much as 237 pounds and by late 1990 acknowledged she had regained most of the 67 pounds, saying “I’ll never diet again.”

In 1994, she finished the Marine Corps Marathon and by 1996 hired personal trainer Bob Greene, saying her roller-coaster weight saga was over.

But now, Winfrey finds herself tipping the scales again, telling AP Television last week that she has yet to choose a gown for President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural ball next month.

“I had a dress on the vision board, but I’m not sure that’s gonna fit,” Winfrey said. “So I have to work on something else.”

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