Dionne Warwick Breaks Her Silence, Calls Whitney Houston ‘The Little Girl I Never Had’
March 8 2012, Published 11:00 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
Whitney Houston’s cousin Dionne Warwick broke her silence in her first interview following Houston’s untimely death at 48 in Beverly Hills on February 11, telling Good Morning America Thursday that the late singer was "basically was the little girl I never had."
Warwick, a 71-year-old mother of two sons, said Whitney’s daughter Bobbi Kristina -- the primary beneficiary of Whitney’s will, as we reported Wednesday -- “has the support she needs."
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Gesturing to her heart, the That's What Friends Are For singer told Robin Roberts, “Whitney is and will always be very, very much alive here."
Acknowledging the grieving process has been especially painful for her to deal