Divided they stand.

As the one-year-anniversary of Whitney Houston‘s death on February 11 approaches, her family is in turmoil over whether to attend Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammy party. But her mother, Cissy, knows where she stands.

“I got an invitation to the party, which is the most obscene thing,” she told Access Hollywood Thursday. “I don’t know why they would want me to come to the party in which she died, you know? Unheard of.”

Houston passed away at the age of 48, just before she was scheduled to attend Clive Davis‘ annual pre-Grammy party, so it’s understandable why his invitation would upset her mother. But Cissy admits that Davis possibly sent the invite as a tribute to her late daughter.

“I guess maybe he just sent me a copy for remembrance sake,” said the 79-year-old, who said she won’t be attending the awards ceremony either.

Meanwhile, other members of Houston’s family feel differently: Houston’s brother Gary Houston and his wife Pat, plan to attend the soiree.  The couple told Entertainment Tonight that they feel it’s important to support Davis, who discovered Houston at the young age of 20 and who had such a huge role in her illustrious career.

“[Clive] was such an important part of Whitney’s life. I mean, that was her industry father and he really, really was,” Pat said. ”My husband and I will definitely be there this weekend to support Clive. Absolutely.”

Clive’s invite isn’t the only struggle in Cissy’s recent history: She has also suffered drama with Houston’s daughter, Bobby Kristina Brown, who attacked her grandmother  for writing a revealing book about Whitney.

Kristina even took to twitter last week and slammed Cissy, tweeting: “I find it 2b disrespect2mymother & me being her daughter won’t tolerate it.”

Cissy, however, chalked the comment up to sadness.

“She’s grieving. [She’s] really grieving,” she told Access Hollywood. “Bobbi Kris knows — she better know — that I love her. Anything I can do for her, I’ll be there. I wouldn’t say anything [bad] about my daughter. That’s MY daughter, whom I loved with all my heart.”

Do you think it was appropriate for Davis to invite Houston’s family to his Grammy party? Let us know how you feel in the comments section. 

Almost one year after Whitney Houston‘s death, her mother Cissy has used a tell-all book to recount the many peaks and pits of her daughter’s troubled life.

In Remembering Whitney: My Story or Love, Loss and the Night the Music Stopped, the 79-year-old gospel singer Cissy recalled the moment when she first learned that her six-time Grammy winning daughter had passed away – hours before she was scheduled to perform at her mentor Clive Davis‘ pre-Grammys party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

“That was the moment my whole world shattered,” she wrote. “My baby was gone and I still can’t believe it.”

But it was her revelations about Houston’s drug use that are perhaps most interesting.

Cissy addressed her relationship with former son-in-law, Bobby Brown, the father of Houston’s surviving child Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19.

While most assumed that Houston’s darker days were as a result of her tumultuous relationship with the R&B singer-songwriter, Cissy recalled a counter opinion.

She wrote: “I don’t blame Bobby for introducing Nippy to drugs or for the things that ended up happening to her. Nippy was a grown woman, and she had always been taught to think for herself.”

But she added, “I do believe her life would have turned out differently” if the pair had not married in 1992.

“It would have been easier for her to get sober and stay sober. Instead she was with someone who, like her, wanted to party. To me, he never seemed to be a help to her in the way she needed.”

Click here for 10 revelations from Cissy’s tell-all. Let us know your thoughts below.

Award-winning television journalist and bestselling author, Jane Velez-Mitchell takes questions from Celebuzz readers on the latest celebrity headlines. This week’s topic: Should Cissy Houston write a tell-all book about the life and death of her daughter, Whitney Houston?

“Let’s not sugar coat it, that’s all I ask. Otherwise, Cissy has every right to weigh in on her daughter’s  death and her life,” Jane says of the controversial pending memoir. “And by the way, some of the proceeds are going to go the New Hope Baptist Church in New Jersey where Whitney’s funeral was held, and where Whitney grew up singing in the Gospel choir.”

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Cissy Houston, 78-year-old gospel singer and mother to the late Whitney Houston, is set to pen a tell-all book about her daughter. The Houston family is reportedly not happy with her decision, claiming she is trying to make money off her daughter’s death.

The memoir is set to be released next year. Should Cissy write the book or is she exploiting the late “I Will Always Love You” singer?

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