Bobby Brown: Whitney Houston did coke at our wedding
Bobby: Whitney drugged at wedding I mean no disrespect, but Bobby Brown sure seems to be getting a kick out of raking up old stories - and not very flattering ones - about his late daughter and late ex-wife.
Bobby: Whitney drugged at wedding
I mean no disrespect, but Bobby Brown sure seems to be getting a kick out of raking up old stories - and not very flattering ones - about his late daughter and late ex-wife.
In a clip from a 20/20 interview that was to run Tuesday, Brown recalled that he caught Whitney Houston on their wedding day, "hunched over a bureau, snorting a line of coke." Drugs played a part in Houston's 2012 death, as they did in the death of their daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, who died last year at 22.
Bobby Brown, 47, followed up the ugly memory with a defense of Houston.
"She wasn't that, you know what I'm saying? The drugs weren't her. She did drugs, but drugs didn't do her," he told Robin Roberts.
Houston wasn't reducible to her addiction, he said. "She knew how to handle herself. It only made me love and want to protect her more."
Brown denied reports he supplied his ex-wife with her drugs and implicated family friend Nick Gordon in Whitney and Bobbi's deaths.
"It's not a mystery to me the same thing that happened to my daughter is what happened to Whitney," Brown said. "There is only one person around both occasions."
As I lay gossiping
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Lesson for a teenager
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