Video: What happened during Houston?s final days?

>> kennedy is a music writer for the los angeles times who saw houston days before she die and " access hollywood "'s shawn robinson had the last interview with houston .

>> good morning.

>> take me back. you're at the hotel for a press event. you ran into houston . describe her behavior for me.

>> you know, she was very -- almost kind of frantic. there was a bit of erraticness in her behavior, you know, when i had the first time to interact with her outside in the lobby. she was wandering around aimlessly, almost like a child. she seemed lost. she asked me if rehearsals were done. i said, yes. she walked right back in. that was the first interaction i had. but as the day went on, you know, you got more p glimpses of her and you got another taste of the fact that something was off that day.

>> i was reading something you said over the last day. she came up and asked you about rehearsal. you said immediately you could smell sig ises acigarettes and alcohol.

>> it was the second time i saw her actually. she walked by after rehearsals were done. the girls were interviewing with clive. she walked by me and other reporters. that was the moment you could smell she'd obviously been smoking a lot and had a couple of drinks obviously in her system.

>> grammy organizers were reacting to this how?

>> there was a little bit of worry, concern that the reporters that were there, they would be, you know, kind of jumping onto reporting on this. none of us did. we respected the fact that she was there, very low key . yet she probably was under the influence, but she was not there for attention. she was there to help brandy and monica. so we left it at that. it was a conversation a lot of us had. i think some of the on-camera footage you can see because she was disruptive to some of the interviews.

>> shawn, over the years, especially the last two or three years it seemed on several occasions we got word that she was cleaning up her act a.

>> right.

>> that she was getting it together, making a comeback. i know you interviewed her back in november. actually you thought this could be true. there could be truth in advertising.

>> absolutely, matt. i had the last one-on-one interview with whitney houston . it was set up by my friend who was whitney houston 's long-time producing partner. all of the other interviews whitney was paired with other people because they wanted to respect her privacy and deflect questions about her personal life .

>> what was her behavior like during your interview?

>> you could not tell me that this was a woman who was going to be dead in some 13 weeks. she looked healthy. she sounded fantastic. she came into the room, my parents were there, she chatted with them, complimented me on my shoes that i had on. she seemed very happy and in a really good place. she was coming to work every day on the set of "sparkle." everyone on the set looked at her as a mentor. she gave advice to jordin sparks and some of the other actors on set. she was in tip-top form. matt, when i looked in her eyes i said, this is the time that whitney houston is going to come back. this is it. we have all seen stories about this is whitney's comeback and she never looked as put together as she did when i interviewed her in november. to think i was looking at a woman who just in a few months was going to no longer be here, i am still in shock about it.

>> shawn, you were at the grammys last night. your reaction to the feeling in the room?

>> it was somber but a celebratory room. as l.l. cool j. and alicia keys said this is the time to celebrate her life and what she meant to us because she wrote the soundtrack for many of our lives. we have lost someone obviously close to our hearts.

>> shawn robinson and investigator kennedy, thank you very much. i appreciate it. ten minutes after the hour. here's ann.

>>> matt, thank you. we are

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