Whitney Houston says her daughter's support helped fuel her as she geared up for her comeback record.
Whitney Houston performs at the 2009 Grammy Salute to Industry Icons event, honoring Clive Davis in Beverly Hills, California February 7, 2009.
"She was with me every step of the way: 'Mom, you can do this.'When I get discouraged and I get like,'This is tiring, this is wearing me out, I’m just not at that point,'she'd just go, 'No, mom, you can do this, get up, get up,'" Houston said of 15-year-old Bobbi Kristina in an interview Tuesday. “She encourages me and inspires me, when I look at her and I look at her eyes and I see myself, I go,'OK, I can do this. I can do this.'"
The 44-year-old superstar is releasing"I Look to You"on Sept. 1. It's her first album in years on Arista Records. On Tuesday evening, she premiered several tracks before an industry audience that included her only child, mother Cissy Houston, cousin Dionne Warwick, Alicia Keys and Diane Sawyer.
Houston is one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, but her career stalled for years and her pop princess image imploded as she battled drugs and endured a troubled (and now defunct) marriage to Bobby Brown.
