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Houston Edward Summers IV (born October 26, 1983), known mononymously as Houston, is an American former R&B singer, [1] best known for his 2004 single "I Like That" (featuring Chingy and Nate Dogg). In 2005, Houston attempted suicide in a London hotel room, and later gouged his eye out with a fork on the 13th floor of his hotel building.
Thomas said he ingested his eye to prevent the federal government of the United States from reading his thoughts. [8] On February 6, 2018, a 20-year old American, Kaylee Muthart, received national attention after she gouged both her eyes out while high on methamphetamine, believing that "sacrificing her eyes [would] save the world". [9]
According to one source, he had been reading the Bible when he came to Matthew 5:29, which said, "If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out." [10] Another source said that after pulling the eye out, he quoted Mark 9:47: "And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to ...
The South Carolina woman who gouged her own eyeballs out during a meth-induced psychotic episode has adjusted to living in blindness and is much happier now - more than six years after the ...
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Self-enucleation or auto-enucleation (oedipism) and other forms of serious self-inflicted eye injury are an extremely rare form of severe self-harm that usually results from mental illnesses involving acute psychosis. [2] The name comes from Oedipus of Greek mythology, who gouged out his own eyes. [3]
"I immediately called 911 and it almost felt like the 911 dispatcher didn't even believe me. That's how crazy it was."
Whitney Houston released a reworked crossover R&B/pop cover version in 1996 on the soundtrack to the film The Preacher's Wife. Houston's version replaces Lennox's verses with new lyrics and omits portions of the bridge. Annie Lennox provides backing vocals for Houston's rendition. [1] The accompanying music video was directed by Paul Hunter.