Bushwick Bill comments on Houston's suicide attempt

after R&B singer Houston's failed suicide attempt, Bushwick Bill of Geto Boys has released a statement commenting on the incident. Yesterday, Houston was stopped by his bodyguards when he reportedly tried to jump out of the window of his 13th-floor hotel room overseas. The crooner was then moved to a lower floor and locked into a room where he reportedly gouged his eye out. Reports later surfaced that he was under psychiatric supervision for manic depression last year and is presently struggling with PCP addiction. Sources say the singer thought "he was Jesus and wanted to go home to his father." advertisement Similar to Houston, Bill lost his right eye when he forced his girlfriend to shoot him in a failed 1991 suicide attempt. As Bill was rushed to the hospital, Geto Boys took a picture capturing Scarface and Willie D pushing their injured group mate on a hospital gurney. The photo was later featured on the group's 1991 We Can't Be Stopped album cover and the incident was documented on "Ever So Clear" from Bill's solo Little Big Man LP. Upon hearing of Houston's troubles, Bill felt the need to speak on the perils of fame and the pressure it brings. "I wouldn't wish that on anyone else, to force the hand of death. Fame will make you crazy. Fame isn't for everybody. There are people who have a fear of fame, those who want fame, and those who don't understand fame. It drives them crazy, because it is a lot of responsibility to be all things to all people, and you can lose yourself in the shuffle, where there are no longer fifty-two cards in the deck," Bill said in a statement. "There is the added insanity of having a big selling record and fame, yet somehow, you don't have any money to match what you have accomplished. You are going through that misery with your label, and it makes utterly no sense." Bill also took the opportunity to counsel the singer and provide some a few tips for up-and-coming artists. "The advice I would give to Houston or to any other artists who are either up and coming, or who are already established, and are going through mental storms right now, is this. You need to be rooted and grounded with the same love you have your family and God to yourself. Since God wanted you to be an entertainer, you need to look to God more and less to yourself, because we as artists are confused as human beings, and then lack of knowledge pulls us into different directions. You are put in the position where you have to smile when you are sad and be gracious when you are depressed, and not everybody knows how to play the roles that fame requires," Bill explained. "Some people wear their life on their sleeves, and they wear their emotional life on their face, which broadcasts their situation like a news station. When some people can't handle that, can't cope, they start to fall apart. I want Houston to know that he is in my prayers, and that I will ask God to give him peace of mind and peace of heart, and I hope his eye heals as well as his mind and his emotions."