He said the devil made him do it and used a plastic fork to remove his eye
Singer says devil made him gouge eye out
Houston’s publicist issued a statement Thursday night denying reports that he tried to take his life by jumping from a London hotel window last week. The statement said Houston had “found himself in the midst of a spiritual battle against the evil that runs rampant in the entertainment industry.”
Houston, whose 2004 single “I Like That” was used in a McDonald’s commercial, was found in his London hotel room with a serious eye injury. He was briefly hospitalized.
“I went to check on him before going to bed and I saw blood on the floor,” Houston’s bodyguard, Marco Powell, said in the statement. “Houston was lying on his bed with a towel over his face and I removed the towel to find his eye hanging out. He said he had to get the devil off of his back and that’s the only way he could kill the devil.”
Houston, whose full name is Houston Summers IV, is a Los Angeles native. He was raised strictly Christian and was “constantly at odds with the temptations that come with success in the music business,” the statement said.