Could Whitney Houston Have Been Saved?

New information about Whitney Houston‘s death case has emerged, and it’s looking as if the woman who “phoned in” the emergency call never actually spoke to dispatchers. According to sources, the unnamed woman instead called the front desk and kept hanging up, presumably out of panic, and emergency dispatchers were unable to give resuscitation directions to anyone involved.

TMZ has a copy of the 911 call, where the front desk attendant at the Beverly Hilton hotel was heard telling dispatchers that Whitney was “apparently” not breathing. Security officially reported an unconscious female in a hotel room, and when asked if CPR instructions could be given, the front desk claimed that the woman in the hotel room who had kept ringing and hanging up was unreachable. An LA coroner had this to say about whether or not Whitney could have been saved:

“There’s too many unknown variables for me to comment on that. … [And] based on the findings of our investigation and our review of the coroner’s report, we have determined that this is not a criminal matter.”

See, now, this is interesting. Who was this lady? And, aside from my knee-jerk reaction of “Maybe everyone was just afraid of bad publicity,” why the hell would she call the front desk instead of 911 directly? Were there really that many drugs lying around that their very presence took precedence over the maybe-or-maybe-not dead body on the floor? What the hell kind of reality do these people live in, anyhow? Like, if it were you, and there was this unconscious lady on the floor that you probably had some sort of relationship with, or at the very least, knew on a professional level, would you f-ck around playing Ding-Dong-Ditch with the front desk, or would you, you know, get shit done and call 911 like you should?

I’m not going to pretend to know the circumstances, and the coroner really said it best when he claimed that there’s just too many unknown variables to really discern what could have happened versus what did happen, but come on. This was somebody’s life at stake, here, even if she was an unstable drug-addict with one foot in the grave (and the other on a slip ‘n slide).