Whitney Houston’s friend is describing in great detail the frantic scene that unfolded minutes after the singer’s death in February.

Raffles van Excel tells Britain’s “Sunday Mirror” he’s still haunted by it and that it still keeps him awake at night.

He says he knew Houston was already dead when he saw her bodyguard, Ray Watson, pumping the singer’s chest.

Van Excel says Houston was naked and lay rigid on the carpet of the Beverly Hilton Hotel suite, adding that water was still pouring out of the bathtub where Houston was discovered unresponsive.

He says he grabbed a towel to cover her up as Watson gave up trying to revive Houston and began crying in his hands.

A coroner’s report later said Houston died of an “accidental drowning” and that heart disease and cocaine use contributed to her passing. Van Excel also told the “Sunday Mirror” that Houston was “good at hiding her drug habit,” saying she had everybody fooled. Looking back, he says he thinks Whitney may have had a premonition about her passing. He says she started carrying a Bible around everywhere she went and would read from it all the time, adding that Houston kept talking about “leaving America.” Van Excel says he initially thought she was going to Switzerland. Now, he says he realizes she meant “she was leaving this world.”