"I feel her passing through me all the time," she told TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey. "Lights turn on and off and I'm like, 'Mom, what are you doing?' I can still laugh with her and still talk to her."
Asked if she will follow her mother into show business, the teenager said: "I have to carry on the legacy ... We're gonna do the singing thing. Some acting, some dancing."
"It's a lot of pressure, but she prepared me for it," she added.
The late star's sister-in-law Patricia Houston meanwhile said it had been possible to forecast that drugs would claim the singer's life. "The handwriting was kind of on the wall. I would be kidding myself to say otherwise."
Houston was found dead on February 11 in a hotel room bath tub, aged 48, a day before the Grammys and hours ahead of a glittering pre-Grammy party in the Beverly Hills hotel where she died.
The singer of hits including "I Will Always Love You" sold over 170 million records during a nearly three-decade career, but fought a long battle against substance abuse while trying to keep her performing talent alive.
Speculation has raged since her death that the singer may have succumbed to a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs and alcohol, though official results from her autopsy were not expected for several weeks after her death.
As Sunday marked a month exactly since she died, the results could in theory come within days.
Her daughter said her mother remains with her. "She literally is an angel. I saw her hurt. I saw her cry. We held each other through that," she said, when asked what she wanted people to know about her mother.
She insisted: "They don't know who she was. Everything people are saying about her -- all that negativity, it's garbage. That's not my mother. ... In reality, I know who she was. Her family knows who she was."
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Asked if she will follow her mother into show business, the teenager said: "I have to carry on the legacy ... We're gonna do the singing thing. Some acting, some dancing."
"It's a lot of pressure, but she prepared me for it," she added.
The late star's sister-in-law Patricia Houston meanwhile said it had been possible to forecast that drugs would claim the singer's life. "The handwriting was kind of on the wall. I would be kidding myself to say otherwise."
Houston was found dead on February 11 in a hotel room bath tub, aged 48, a day before the Grammys and hours ahead of a glittering pre-Grammy party in the Beverly Hills hotel where she died.
The singer of hits including "I Will Always Love You" sold over 170 million records during a nearly three-decade career, but fought a long battle against substance abuse while trying to keep her performing talent alive.
Speculation has raged since her death that the singer may have succumbed to a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs and alcohol, though official results from her autopsy were not expected for several weeks after her death.
As Sunday marked a month exactly since she died, the results could in theory come within days.
Her daughter said her mother remains with her. "She literally is an angel. I saw her hurt. I saw her cry. We held each other through that," she said, when asked what she wanted people to know about her mother.
She insisted: "They don't know who she was. Everything people are saying about her -- all that negativity, it's garbage. That's not my mother. ... In reality, I know who she was. Her family knows who she was."
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