In what Oprah Winfrey is calling “the best interview of I’ve ever done,” Whitney Houston has revealed that she suffered years of abuse and drug addiction during her marriage to Bobby Brown. The R&B diva revealed that her ex-husband was emotionally abusive and went so far as to spit in her face when they were together.

Per OMG Yahoo:

“He spit on me. Actually spit on me. And my daughter was coming down the stairs and she saw that,” Houston told the daytime talk show host during the 24th-season premiere of The Oprah Winfrey Show on Monday. “He had such a hate in his eyes for me.” Houston, 46, explained that following the incident, Brown pushed her against the wall and things got bloody. “I took the phone and I hit him over the head with it. And he just fell out on the floor,” she said.

I personally think he got off easy only being hit with a telephone after that disgusting act! Houston also tells Winfrey that Brown slapped her once, and she retaliated by knocking him in the head three times. Whitney admits that probably the worst drug she was addict to was him, as she wouldn’t do anything without him, including actual drugs. But he didn’t have the same affections for her as she recalls that their marriage got so bad that Bobby “was cutting her head off pictures and painting evil eyes on their bedroom walls with spray paint.” Um yea, thats a little too disturbing for my pleasure. She claims the core of their problems was the jealousy that Bobby harbored for Whitney’s success, as his career was headed downhill. So much so that she had to downplay her own success just to make him feel better.

She goes on to admit that the couple developed a love for the nose candy drug shortly after Houston’s success in the film ‘The Bodyguard’ way back in 1992. After that, she pretty much became a coked-out constantly and stopped thinking about her career all together. Instead blew hundreds of thousands of dollars on drugs. Things then became a little bit crazier after a seven-month long period of time that she spent watching TV and living in her pajamas. Houston says that she and Brown started smoking rock cocaine to combat the affect of the marijuana they were smoking.

Per OMG Yahoo:

“We were lacing our marijuana with [rock cocaine],” Houston admitted. “It’s almost like heroin and cocaine speedballing, but you level it off with the marijuana, okay?”

She credits her mother, Cissy Houston, for saving her life by bringing sheriff’s over to her house with a court injunction in an attempt to stage an intervention and forcing her into rehab, determined not to lose her daughter to the drugs. But thats not the end of the horror that happened throughout their relationship. She goes on to describe more about the emotional and physical abuse she suffered at the hands of Brown, describing him to be her drug of choice.

Per OMG Yahoo:

“[He]was very much the father, he was very much the man. He was very much in control. I liked that. When he said something, I listened. I was very interested in having someone have that kind of control over me. It was refreshing.” She called Brown her “drug,” saying: “I didn’t do anything without him. I wasn’t getting high by myself. It was me and him together. We were partners.”

Thankfully, the couple went their separate ways and divorced in 2007. Whitney and Bobby have one daughter together named Bobby Kristina, who Whitney has custody of. Houston said that she has been honest with her daughter about her drug use and even took her to an Atlanta drug rehab for mothers and daughters. She is now riding the comeback train, as her newest album debuted at number one on the Billboard charts last week. Good luck to you Whitney!