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LIKE MOTHER. . . Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, reportedly got high after her mother’s funeral. (WireImage)
OUTPOURING OF LOVE: Whitney Houston’s grave in Westfield, NJ, is piled high with flowers and remembrances after her burial yesterday. (
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After a week of mourning, Whitney Houston was laid to rest yesterday in a New Jersey cemetery — as reports surfaced that her daughter got high following the singer’s funeral the day before.
In contrast to the star-studded, music-filled funeral, Houston was buried next to her father, John Russell Houston Jr., in a quiet gathering attended only by family and close friends.
Fans lined the road to the Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, some tossing tulips and roses on the gold Lincoln hearse before it entered the graveyard and disappeared among its rolling hills.
Funeral director Carolyn Whigham wept openly as the hearse approached.
Houston’s song “I Believe in You and Me,” from her 1996 movie, “The Preacher’s Wife,” wafted from the car.
“I came to show support for Whitney and see the procession,” said David Burke, 18. “I’m a big fan of hers, and so are my parents. Her music is so inspirational. I’m glad she is buried next to her father.”
Molly Jennings, 17, mouthed the words to Houston’s song as the hearse went by.
“I came out because everyone was talking about it, and my folks always loved her and her five-octave range,” Jennings said. “It’s a sad day for the world.”
It was a particularly sad day in Newark, where Houston, 48, was born and grew up under the guidance of her mother, singer Cissy Houston.
Mourners waited outside the Whigham Funeral Home, where Houston’s body lay before the 20-minute ride to Westfield.
The tragedy apparently has been too much for her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, to bear. She sought solace in drugs and was “getting high” in the hours following Saturday’s service, according to a report in The Daily Beast.
The devastated daughter wasn’t at a family gathering at a Newark restaurant following the service, the Web site said.
“Cissy and others won’t admit out loud that Bobbi Kristina has a drug problem,” a friend told the Web site. “But they know it and have been trying to keep her straight even before Whitney passed.”
The Web site cited Houston family sources as saying the family is considering a rehab stint for the 18-year-old.
But a Houston family representative denied that Bobbi Kristina is on drugs and said she only needed time alone.
Bobbi Kristina’s father, R&B star Bobby Brown, left the funeral before it began because all nine members of his entourage were not provided seats.