Bobby Brown on Whitney Houston, the Woman He Loved and Lost | ABC News

tonight we learn more about the dark and final days of legendary superstar Whitney Houston, her ex-husband Bobby Brown reveals new and intimate details of the couple's turbulent marriage, including her drug abuse, and Brown points the finger tonight at the tragic loss from her daughter. Bobbi Kristina ABC's Robin Roberts has the exclusive conversation: It was that song and the movie The Bodyguard that propelled Whitney Houston from superstar singer to bona fide Hollywood movie star, but in the years after Whitney's fight against addiction, the public witnessed her erratic behavior on that reality show and that incredible voice, not what was once at the center of it all, Bobby Brown, father of her only daughter, Bobbi Kristina, who also tragically died three years ago after his famous mother, if I think of a toast tonight, Bobby Brown talking about the women he

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her I still loved her Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston were a seemingly unlikely couple she was a reigning pop princess next door and he was the bad boy of R&B when you find love you find it I mean it finds you I should say between her and me it was so instantaneous that we were so alike that it made sense that they got married in 1992, so you broke tradition a little and saw her before the wedding mm-hmm well, that was the first time. In fact, he had seen her do drugs, cocaine, yes, Mrs.

Bobby says in her next book, every little step he came across cited his future girlfriend hunched over a dresser, snorting a line of coke, he says she offered him a swallow, but he didn't. Don't allow yourself at that moment what would go through your mind when you saw that the drugs weren't her, she used drugs, but the drugs didn't affect her, she knew how to handle herself, she just made me know love and want to protect it more. People told me the only thing they heard over and over again: You were the one who drove Whitney into heavy drug use.

Well, you were the one that I wasn't the one that started it and I think that I would do my part and I. It's hard for me to even be a part of it, but we all have our own opinions in public. The young couple sparkled with promise at the Bodyguard movie premiere and more good

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in March 1993. Bobby and Whitney welcomed their precious baby girl Bobbi Kristina Brown. the spotlight, you know this is crazy, but her happy home life wasn't all it seemed. Bobby Brown had multiple arrests ranging from marijuana possession to drunk driving and several probation violations, but Whitney stood by her man, even recording a duet with which they also share his increasing drug use.

Bobby says they would lock themselves in a wing of the house to get high while the babysitters took care of his daughter Bobbi Kristina. Have you ever done it in front of? No, never, but she probably never had to. No. I always made it a point not to leave us. seeing myself or my wife in that kind of situation. I mean, it's hard when you know you're doing it every day, but the world was starting to realize at a certain point when you were doing drugs and you didn't know that the outside. People who look young vividly remember my colleague and friend Diane Sawyer. .

Crack is crazy. Well, crack is cheap. I make too much money from Emma, ​​so let's get this straight. It's okay, we don't do crack, don't do it. Crack is a madness that people cannot allow. that's going dinosaur I love her I love her I just bad timing we both needed to get away from what we were doing there was no reason for her to be on television at that moment but she didn't get away from the cameras on the contrary in fact, Whitney Houston started to appear on her husband's reality show being Bobby Brown along with her daughter Bobbi Kristina, exposing her to the harsh glare of the spotlight.

You said you felt that as parents you and Whitney failed Bobby Chris, we should have been better. It would have been better for us at such a young age to have everything we wanted it was a blessing in a curse a curse because money for drugs was never a problem for the couple in his book Bobby Brown admits to abusing cocaine, marijuana and heroin. Besides alcohol, when the drug use was at its peak with you Andy, the last few years of our marriage were terrible for both of us, you know, trying to get clean and one of us trying to get clean and the other one not wanting to. to get clean and this is a big fight that they had tried from time to time to get sober, but Bobby Brown says that Whitney just wouldn't stop using and that in 2006 that was what finally led to the end of their 14 year marriage, she I just was.

Not ready to go in that direction, the recently divorced Whitney Houston was looking for a comeback when she appeared on Good Morning America in 2009. It was her first televised performance in seven years on stage, and she overcame the love and support it would give her. a now grown-up Bobbi Kristina. a rare public appearance singing with her mother but the celebration would not last breaking

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tonight the death of singing star Whitney Houston at the age of 48 Saturday afternoon February 11, 2012 Whitney Houston is discovered partially submerged in a bathtub in your Los Angeles hotel room 355 pm. this afternoon Whitney Houston was pronounced dead according to the autopsy report cocaine use contributed to Whitney's accidental drowning after her death Bobby Brown says his already strained relationship with his daughter made the family worse Brown also believed Bobbi Kristina was being manipulated by someone else Nick Gordon Gordon was rumored to be Whitney's adopted son.

Bobbi Kristina called him her brother after Whitney's death. The couple claimed to be much more and married and we are fine. We are really very happy. There have been no legal documents to show that the couple married in 2014. Bobby and his daughter had just begun to reconcile and met on Father's Day for an emotional reunion. They hadn't seen each other in a long time because they were a little strange, yeah. They all hugged each other when they saw each other in the restaurant and it's like old times, that was a special moment of the day, yes, it's a beautiful thing.

Bobby says things were going so well that Bobby Christina decided to move to Los Angeles to be closer. him, but that move would never happen on January 31, 2015, just two days, he says, before his daughter headed to Los Angeles, she was found dead in a bathtub in her Georgia home, she was found unconscious, yesterday she was They were rushed to the hospital, which reminds her painfully. Mother's death reports label Bobbi Kristina's accident as a mystery, but Bobby had his suspicions about her. There is no mystery to me. I know exactly what happened to my daughter. The same thing that happened to my daughter.

What's happening? Whitney. There is only one person who was present on both occasions. I won't say his name Nick Gordon is who you're referring to I won't say his name for six months Bobbi Kristina was in a coma unfortunately she passed away on July 26, 2015 the last thing I said to her I just said let him go I said okay you can go with your mom, dad, he'll be fine. Her official cause of death was lobar pneumonia due to drowning and a toxic cocktail of drugs in her system. She was buried next to her mother if she had those two days ago.

I don't know when he brought her what two days you mean the two days before what happened to my daughter. She was supposed to come from here to Los Angeles with me. If she could get those days back, my daughter would be here as long as she could. What I want is those two pigs back, although no criminal charges have been filed. Bobby Brown has joined Bobbi Kristina's estate to file a $10 million wrongful death civil lawsuit against Nick Gordon. Nick Gordon's lawyers called a lawsuit without merit. They say Nick is also heartbroken and destroyed by the loss of Bobbi Kristina ABC News contacted the Houston family but they would not comment today Bobbi is married to her manager Alicia Etheridge Brown they have two children and one on the way I may get teary eyed tears, but I'm very happy, right?

Now I have a beautiful wife, good children, a beautiful opportunity to do something else, a great copy, finish me.