Ray J Breaks Silence On Whitney Houston's Death

In a rare and revealing interview, the R&B singer and entrepreneur addresses the most violent death in English record in years, whose cause has been little known until now. While chatting on Cam Newton's Funky Friday podcast last week, the 44-year-old singer shut down long-running online gossip that he was inside the suite when Houston died in 2012.

Whitney, the iconic songstress who breathed life into such classics as "I Will Always Love You" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody," drew her last breath in the bathtub of her Beverly Hilton hotel room, a heartbreaking death that shocked the music industry. "That's the biggest cap I've ever heard," Ray J said, clearly annoyed that the misinformation had continued to spread. "I have heard it since the beginning. Whitney Houston and Ray J were dating at the time of her death, a relationship that was heavily criticized by many in the public eye.

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Despite speculation and rumors, Ray J had remained silent over the years until now. "When you know the truth, why do you have to jump out there and try to tell it to everybody?" he shared. "I didn't care about what people were saying," he said. But it's a clatter that was once mere white noise, and now it has become significantly more painful. Ray J confessed that the ongoing rumors and negative stories circulating online are particularly "hurtful," now that it's been over a decade since Whitney's death. 

His remarks are not only a debunking of the conspiracy theories, but a reflection of the emotional price of having to grieve under the public gaze. For Ray J, it was not about headlines or preserving his name. It was about the memory of someone he loved. With this candid confession, Ray J is finally taking back that narrative, rather than having his story written by all the noise that surrounded it. And as he says in no uncertain terms, enough is enough.