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Could this photo signal what was going wrong in Whitney Houston's life? The pop icon, who died today at 48, was last photographed on Thursday leaving the Tru nightclub in Hollywood, Calif. She appeared disheveled and disoriented, with what looked like sweat running down her face and blood dripping down her leg.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, she got into an altercation with "X Factor" finalist Stacy Francis on Thursday at an R&B appreciation event where she was said to be acting "belligerent." On Friday night, as THR reported that Houston had been approached to be a judge on the reality talent competition program, she was at a spa, according to her publicist.