Whitney Houston Launches Counterattack on Stepmom

To hear Whitney Houston tell it, she’s got her very own evil stepmother.

The songbird is countersuing Barbara Houston for $1.6 million, the star’s rep, Nancy Seltzer, confirms to E! News. “[Whitney] Houston is using the legal remedies available to her,” she says.

Last December, the widow claimed the singer kept a $1 million insurance payout from her father’s estate that was earmarked for the mortgage on his Fort Lee, N.J., condo, where the stepmom has lived for the

Now, the clever star is claiming she put up the initial cash for the home in the first place, and he still owed her most of the balance of the loan—plus interest—when he died.

No word on when her next album, tentatively titled Undefeated, will be hitting the streets, but her voice—if not her affairs—were supposedly in terrific shape in February.

via: eonline.com