HOUSTON ENTERS REHAB

LOS ANGELES - Grammy-winning pop singer Whitney Houston has entered a
drug rehabilitation facility, her publicist said.

Houston "thanks everyone for their support and prayers," publicist
Nancy Seltzer said in a statement Monday. She declined to offer any
further details.

Houston, 40, admitted in a December 2002 television that she had
abused drugs in the past, but told interviewer Diane Sawyer on ABC's
Primetime that she had gotten beyond that time through prayer.

Houston's husband, R&B singer Bobby Brown, was sentenced to 60 days in
jail in late February for violating probation. One of the violations
included a December misdemeanor battery charge for allegedly striking
Houston, leaving her with a bruised cheek and a cut inside her lip.

In January 2000, Houston left behind a bag at Keahole Kona
International Airport in Hawaii that allegedly held less than half an
ounce of marijuana and three partially smoked marijuana cigarettes.

In 2001, a petty misdemeanor drug charge relating to the incident was
dismissed against Houston after a drug counselor filed an assessment
with prosecutors stating that Houston did not require treatment for
substance abuse.

Brown and Houston have been married since 1992 and have a 10-year-old
daughter, Bobbi Kristina.