In an ABC news interview with Whitney Houston's former bodyguard Alan Jacobs, who was hired to protect her from 1995 to 2002, Jacobs felt he couldn't protect her from herself.
Expressing sadness and mixed feelings about his association with the singer, Jacobs said he could no longer bear to watch the singer's drug abuse and self-destructive behavior.
Ultimately, he said he felt it became time for him and the singer to “part company,” go their separate ways. In an earlier interview ABC's with Diane Sawyer, Houston had stated in her own words, “No one makes me do anything, it's my decision. The biggest devil is me.”
Jacobs had long felt there was an out of control element in Houston's life off-stage and behind the scenes. Stating that he had tried to limit the singer's contact with certain individuals which he felt were negative influences, he poignantly remarked that as her hired security detail, he could protect Whitney... his “boss” from everything...but couldn't protect her from herself.
In Jacob's own words, “The boss may not always be right, but the boss is the boss.”About four months before her death, he had quit his job as Houston's bodyguard.
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