(Cissy Houston, Whitney's gospel-star mother and matriarch of the family, told People she's "disturbed" by Brown's book and his promotional interviews, specifically denying his claim that he first saw Whitney do drugs on their wedding day she said she was with her daughter the whole time.) He goes to some lengths to deny his reputation as someone who sponged off his wife, asserting that he had more money than she when they married and that the Houstons refused to return any of his belongings, including $US2 million ($2.7m) in jewellery, when they split. Whitney and the Houstons tried to turn his daughter against him after the divorce, he writes, still outraged about how he says they dissed him and his family at Whitney's funeral. He justifies telling tales on his dead ex-wife as "trying to paint the most accurate picture of what went on inside our marriage." Brown says Whitney was not only a long-time drug abuser, she cheated on him first and often. In his book, Brown gets to tell his side of the story about how he says he was mistreated by the Houstons.įew people come off looking good in the process. Krissi died in 2015, following six months in a coma after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her Atlanta-area townhouse the medical examiner later said she had morphine, cocaine, alcohol and prescription drugs in her body when she went under the water.ĭuring Krissi's final months of life, the long-standing tension between the Brown and Houston families, dating to even before the Houston-Brown 2007 divorce, was on display.
Houston died in a bathtub in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2012 from a combination of drowning and heart failure caused by years of cocaine abuse. Readers may well conclude from Brown's descriptions that Bobbi Kristina never had much of a chance before she ended up like her mother: Dead too young, buried next to each other in a New Jersey cemetery. When I think about now, I just feel enormous pain. "How much quality time can you spend with your daughter when you're high all the time? I would get really mad at Whitney, scream and yell that I wanted a divorce.
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They embarked on a 15-year marriage filled with lust and fighting, cheating and substance abuse, all of it in front of their only child, Bobbi Kristina, born in 1993, and later in front of a reality TV audience that watched the couple's 2005 one-season series, Being Bobby Brown.
Credit:Ron Harris/APīrown went into the fame stratosphere when he married pop superstar Houston in 1992. Bobby Brown, center, stands outside of Emory Hospital in Atlanta where his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown is being treated on February 5, 2015.