Whitney Houston`s manager speaks out-I knew something was wrong

•   Whitney Houston. AFP

Whitney Houston’s sister-on-law has opened up to Oprah Winfrey, describing the moments just following the singer’s death.  

Patricia Houston – who was also Houston’s manager – said she heard screams coming from the I Will Always Love You singer’s hotel room as she walked down the hotel hallway and felt a sense of impending doom.
She said: “I hear screams. I kept walking very slow. A woman opened her door and said, 'Is everything all right?' I said 'Dial 911’.
"I knew something was wrong. I didn't know what. I was just numb. I walked.
Patricia, who stayed in the room below Houston, described what happened during an hour-long special of Oprah’s Next Chapter on Sunday night.
“As I got closer, and I turn the corner, Mary's [Whitney’s assistant] at the door and she's screaming, 'Oh my god’. I told her to stop: 'Calm down, please’.
"I saw my brother, Ray [Houston’s security guard], trying to revive her to the point of exhaustion.
The paramedics were coming in at that point. I said, 'Ray, let it go’. He was so out of breath. I felt so badly for him.
“Then I saw her. She had a peaceful look on her face. She had a peaceful look.”
Patricia explained that the paramedics then asked her to leave.
She added: "I just couldn't do it. I said, 'Don't touch me, please’. I couldn't leave her. I could not leave her. I saw them cover her up and I knew that was it. I knew that that was it. Looking at her and watching that, I still could not believe it. I could not believe it."
Patricia, who also was one of the singer’s closest friends, said she struggled to stay unruffled because Houston’s 19-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina, was just down the hotel passage.
She added: "I just had to keep my calm. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do, but I had to do it."