Whitney Houston talks about her marriage and her drug use on a candid Oprah interview; Kanye West says he immediately knew he'd messed up at the VMAs; the man who shot his grandson over watermelon is going to prison for life. Details are on today's KISS News Now!

• Whitney Houston says her marriage to singer Bobby Brown got stranger as she became more famous...she says it wasn't physically violent, but was emotionally abusive.  Her cocaine use became heavy, she tells Oprah Winfrey, after her 1992 blockbuster, "The Bodyguard," and that she and Bobby used together--putting rock cocaine in their marijuana cigarettes, rolling them up and smoking them.  The two-part interview concludes today.
  
  
  
  
   

Whitney says that Bobby Brown had a "sweet, gentle tenderness" about him--at first. They both tried to fight against the critics who predicted their marriage wouldn't last. Still, she says, as her star kept rising, the marriage became troubled.

Oprah: What's the worst thing he ever said to you that you can share?



Whitney: I just remember this moment. It was his birthday, and I gave him a party at a club in Atlanta, Buckhead. He drank a lot that night. He drank a lot. And for some reason, everything that I did I tried to do to make him happy--it would turn on me. It was weird. Today, I understand it because people that alcoholics love, they try to abuse.

So when we got back to the house--he's going to hate that I say this--but he spit on me. And my daughter was coming down the stairs, and she saw it. That was pretty intense. Because I didn't grow up with that, and I didn't understand why that occurred. But he had such a hate in his eyes for me.

Because I loved him so much. He cursed me all the way home in front of his parents, and then he spit on me...I was horrified.

Whitney says her drug of choice was cocaine; she also regularly used marijuana.



Oprah: Tell me how bad did it get, the drugs?

Whitney: When you don't speak and you live in the same home and you're sitting right next to that person and you're not saying a word for a week? You're just sitting there? And you're just watching TV? That's bad. ...

Oprah: You're just watching TV and doing coke? Or are you smoking?

Whitney: We were lacing our marijuana with base. We weren't on crack. We weren't on no crack stuff. We weren't buying $20 jumbos. We were paying money. We were buying kilos and ounces and ounces. We would have our stash.

Oprah: But you were freebasing cocaine.

Whitney: Basically. ... We weren't doing pipe smoking. We didn't get that far.



• Kanye West tells Jay Leno he knew right away he'd done wrong after ripping the mic away from Taylor Swift at the MTV VMAs.
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

   
• More infighting among the surviving children of Dr. Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King prompts a judge to order the siblings to sit down and talk to one another.  Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville rules that Bernice, Martin III and Dexter need to have a shareholder's meeting over their father's estate, which they haven't done for half a decade.  Bernice and Martin sued Dexter King last year to force him to open the books of their father's estate.  Dexter has also sued his sister, who administers their mother's estate.
  
  
  
• The Jackson County man who shot and killed his 6-year-old grandson and wounded his wife during a June domestic dispute will spend the rest of his life in prison.  55-year-old Bobby Clark avoided the death penalty by entering a guilty plea on Monday--and he did so without an apology or an explanation.  A police report indicates Clark shot Michael Levigne after the little boy cut a watermelon without permission.  Linda Clark was shot trying to defend her grandson.
  
  
  
• Patrick Swayze dies in Los Angeles after a 20-month battle with pancreatic cancer.  In his last TV interview this year, Barbara Walters asked him if he was scared.  "I will be so...either truthful or stupid as to say no," he replied.  "But then immediately when I say that, I have to say yes, I am."  Swayze, 57, was a star in movies from Roadhouse to Dirty Dancing to Ghost.  He is survived by Lisa, his wife of 34 years.