The 48-year-old diva, one of the world's biggest singing stars before plunging into drink and drug addiction, was found with her face underwater in a hotel bath. Bottles of prescription drugs like those used by Michael Jackson were in her suite in Beverly Hills. It was revealed a film crew waiting to interview the fallen superstar at her hotel were told: "She's not coming... she's dead." Ironically, the VH1 pop channel team were waiting to talk to Whitney about "getting back on track" following her dark spiral into addiction. They were in a corridor outside her hotel room when Whitney's numbed long-time assistant Lynn Volkman burst out and told them to stop filming. VH1 journalist Allison Samuels said: "She said, 'Whitney's not coming, Whitney's not coming' and then finally said, 'She's dead'." Whitney, once one of the world's biggest stars with monster hits like I Will Always Love You, was found in the bath in her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Her hairdresser — one of several members of her entourage in other parts of the fourth-floor suite — found her with her face under-water and her legs in the air. Half a dozen bottles of prescription drugs including Lorazepam, Valium and Xanax — used as sleeping aids, relaxants and to ease anxiety — are said to have been found in the suite. Whitney is thought to have passed out before slipping under the water.