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

we're learning more tonight about the dark and final days of legendary superstar Whitney Houston her ex-husband Bobby Brown revealing new and intimate details of the couple's turbulent marriage including their drug abuse and Brown is pointing fingers tonight about the tragic loss of his 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 bonafide Hollywood movie star but in the years after Whitney battled addiction the public witnessing her erratic behavior on that reality show and that amazing voice not what it once was at the center of it all Bobby Brown father to her only daughter Bobbi Kristina who tragically also passed away three years after her famous mother if I think a toast tonight Bobby Brown speaking out about the women he loved and lost I still loved her I still loved her Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston were a seemingly unlikely pair she was a reigning pop princess girl 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 me and her it was just it was it was so instant we were so much like each other that it made sense they married in 1992 so you broke tradition a little bit and saw her before the wedding mm-hmm well that was the first time I had actually saw her do drugs cocaine yes ma'am Bobby says in his upcoming book every little step he found his bride-to-be quote hunched over a bureau snorting a line of coke he says she offered him a hit but he didn't indulge at that moment what would through your mind when you saw that the drugs wasn't her she did drugs but did drugs didn't do her she knew how to handle herself it only made me you know love and want to protect him more people said to me the one thing that they heard over and over again they you were the one that led Whitney to heavy drug use well you were the one it wasn't me it started her and I think I'd take my part and I take it hard for me even being a part of it but we all have our own minds in public the young couple glowed with promise at the Bodyguard movie premiere and more good news in March 1993 Bobby and Whitney welcomed their precious baby girl Bobbi Kristina Brown into the spotlight you know this is madness but their happy home life wasn't all it seemed Bobby Brown had multiple arrests ranging from marijuana possession to drunk driving and various parole violations but Whitney stood by her man even recording a duet they also share escalating drug use Bobby says they would lock themselves in one wing of the house getting high while daughter Bobbi Kristina was cared for by nannies did you ever do it in front of no never but she never probably had to no I always made it a point to not let us see me or my wife in that type of situation I mean it's hard when when you know you're doing it every day but the world was beginning to take notice at a certain point when you using drugs you you don't know that the outside people that seem young people remember vividly my colleague and friend Diane Sawyer crack is whack well crack is cheap I make too much money to Emma so let's get that straight okay we don't do crack don't do that crack is whack people cannot let that go dinosaur love her love her love her 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 at that time but she didn't get away from the cameras the opposite in fact Whitney Houston started appearing on her husband's reality show being Bobby Brown along with their daughter Bobbi Kristina exposing her to the harsh glare of the spotlight you said that you felt that as parents you and Whitney failed Bobby Chris we should have been better we could have been better at such a young age for us both to have any and everything that we wanted was a blessing in the 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 in addition to alcohol when with the drug use at its height with you Andy the last few years of our marriage it was terrible both of us you know trying to be clean and one of us trying to be cleaned and the other one don't want to be clean and this is a big struggle they had tried on and off to get sober but Bobby Brown says Whitney just wouldn't stop using and that in 2006 that's what ultimately led to the end of their 14 years of marriage she just wasn't ready to go that direction newly divorced Whitney Houston was in search of a comeback when she appeared on Good Morning America in 2009 it was her first televised performance in seven years on stage overwhelmed the love the support a now grown-up Bobbi Kristina would make a rare public appearance singing with her mother but the celebration would not last breaking news tonight the death of singing star Whitney Houston at the age of 48 Saturday afternoon February 11th 2012 Whitney Houston is discovered partially submerged in a bathtub of her Los Angeles hotel room 355 p.m. this afternoon Whitney Houston was pronounced dead according to the autopsy report cocaine use contributed to Whitney's accidental drowning in the aftermath of her death Bobby Brown says the relationship with his daughter already strained worsened the Brown family also believed Bobbi Kristina was being manipulated by another person 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're fine we're really we're we're really really very happy he is there have been no legal documents to prove that the couple ever married in 2014 Bobby and his daughter had just started to reconcile and met on Father's Day for an emotional reunion you hadn't seen each other in a while cuz you were a bit of strange yeah you all hugged each other when you saw each other in the restaurant and it's kind of like old times that was a special day moment yeah it's a beautiful thing Bobby says things were going so well that Bobby Christina decided to move to Los Angeles to be closer to him but that move would never happen on January 31st 2015 just two days he says before his daughter was to head to LA she was found lifeless in a bathtub at her Georgia home she was found unresponsive she was rushed to the hospital yesterday painfully reminiscent of her mother's death reports label Bobbi Kristina's accident a mystery but Bobby had his suspicions there's not a mystery to me I know exactly what happened to my daughter the same thing that happened to my daughter is what happens Whitney there's only one person that was around both occasions you won't say his name Nick Gordon is who you're referring to I won't say his name for six months Bobbi Kristina lay in a coma sadly she passed away on July 26 2015 the last thing I told her I just said let go I said it's okay you can go with your mom daddy he'll be all right her official cause of death was lobar pneumonia due to drowning and a toxic cocktail of drugs in her system she was buried alongside her mother if I had those two days back I don't when he got her what two days are you referring to the two days before what happened to my daughter she was to come out of here to Los Angeles with me if I could get those days back my daughter would be here all I want is those two pigs back although no criminal charges have been filed Bobby Brown has joined Bobbi Kristina's estate in filing a ten million dollar wrongful death civil suit against Nick Gordon Nick Gordon's attorneys called a lawsuit meritless they say Nick too is heartbroken and destroyed over the loss of Bobbi Kristina ABC News reached out to the Houston family but they would not comment today Bobbi is married to his manager Alicia Etheridge Brown they have two children and one on the way might be tears coming down my eyes but I'm very happy right now I have a beautiful wife good kids a beautiful chance to to something else great copying finish with me yet

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Published: Wed Jun 08 2016