Whitney Houston's last televised performance was at the 2011 BET Celebration of Gospel. PR NEWSFOTO/BET Networks
Today should have been a happy day.
But, for fans of legendary music icon Whitney Houston, it means celebrating her 49th birthday without her. She died in February.
"Haven't been tweeting much today, I'm sowwy," her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown tweeted Thursday, accoridng to eonline.com.. "I'm REALLY REALLY missing my mommy today. 2morrow is #MOMMYSBDAY of course."
"Once it hits 12 am mommy it's your birthday&I am going2celebrate it2thee fullest!" she added. "Bc YOU deserve it damn it, YOU deaerveNothingburtheBEST!"
The Grammy-winning legend died in a hotel room bathtub in Los Angeles hours before she was to perform at a pre-Grammy Awards party. The LA coroner ruled her death the result of drowning and the effects of heart disease and cocaine use.
She had completed her role as the mother of three sisters who form a girl group and must learn to deal with the effects of fame in the new film ‘Sparkle.” The role was intended to be part of her comeback as a actress and performer. The film premiered Sunday in Detroit, Mich.
Her co-stars in the film are "encouraging fans to tweet birthday messages using the hashtags #SPARKLE and #HappyBdayWhitney," reported eonline.com.
In other news, her daughter, who had reportedly called off her wedding to "adopted" brother Nick Gordon but declared her love for him via Tweet on Aug. 3, has also reached out to Paris Jackson, daughter of the late pop icon Michael Jackson, according to music-news.com. Both are the children of world-famous parents who have passed away.
The website reported that Brown, 19, has asked Jackson, 14, to guest-star on her upcoming reality show "The Houston Family Chronicles."
Watch Houston in this trailer from "Sparkle."
