Lorde Criticized For Bathtub Photo With Whitney Houston Lyrics, Her Apology

The singer from New Zealand, Lorde, is in hot waters for posting a picture of a bathtub with “I Will Always Love You” lyrics by the late Whitney Houston. The photo was posted earlier on April 6 and has since been deleted. Lorde deleted the photo after receiving backlash online for her post.

Whitney Houston, the winner of six Grammy awards, was found dead in the bathtub of her hotel room in Beverly Hills, California in February of 2012. The coroner’s official statement listed accidental drowning as the cause of death. Drugs were also involved as part of the cause of death. “Effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use” the statement reads.

Lorde apologizes for “poorly chosen quote”

After the Internet hit her hard, the two-time Grammy award winner took to Instagram and posted an apology on her IG story. “Extremely extremely poorly chosen quote,” she started. She adds that she was just “excited to take a bath.”

In the end, she called herself an idiot and said, “Love Whitney forever and ever.”

The original Instagram post was deleted, but people on the internet have taken screenshots. The photo is now still circulating along with the negative comments netizens have to say. Here’s what the internet had to say about it.

“lorde is probably sitting in the tub not realizing what she just did” one Twitter user wrote and added a screenshot of Lorde’s bathtub picture.

lorde is probably sitting in the tub not realizing what she just did pic.twitter.com/m38R1hYPzk

— jake (@HUNTYCHAN) April 6, 2018

Another one posted, “This is disgusting idk how people find it funny. Whitney was a legend. she was amazing. she was a queen. she was a strong black woman. I like lorde but this is truly disgusting” with another screenshot of the original post.

This is disgusting idk how people find it funny. Whitney was a legend. she was amazing. she was a queen. she was a strong black woman. I like lorde but this is truly disgusting pic.twitter.com/B5cR3tolaU

— black female (@privsari) April 6, 2018

It’s really distasteful to not only impersonate a dead person on social media for attention but, to also use their likeness as an opportunity to slander someone who made an honest mistake is just flat out wrong.Not everyone would have made the bathtub connection, it was a MISTAKE

— all my boys (@EugeneKrabsII) April 6, 2018

Fans quickly came to her defense before and after seeing her Story.

bc it was an accident?? the lyrics are iconic and have been used to show excitement for things, she was just excited to take her bath and didn’t put two and two together

— m (@conseqvences) April 6, 2018

omg people are so stupid thinking lorde (or anyone for that matter) would purposely post something offensive… what would she gain other than annoying sjw in her mentions

— nicky 🍃 (@tropicocunt) April 6, 2018

To all the people saying Lorde is cancelled bc of insta pic of the bath and the Whitney lyrics caption… people do stuff like that ALL THE TIME it was obvs just a very bad coincidence and i genuinely don’t think Lorde would do that purposefully…

— Elliott (@ouhoooh) April 6, 2018

I’m done with this app, Stan Twitter complain 24/7 about male domination in the industry yet they crucify women and call them ‘over’ when they make honest mistakes like Lorde did. Lorde has never done anything problematic and y’all blew this out of proportion to tear her down. pic.twitter.com/F2AxwkxEg0

— James (@newromantic67) April 6, 2018