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Whitney Houston She was found drowned in the bathtub of the hotel room where she was staying on February 11, 2012. Water and drugs had done their macabre work, just as she was about to perform at the Grammy Awards. At that time she was already divorced from the rapper and producer Bobby Brown, father of his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown (Krissy), who died in a similar way three years later. This week Bobby sat on the show Red Table Talk, from Facebook Watch, and spoke with Jada Pinkett Smith how these deaths affected him at the time, to which he added that of his son Bobby Brown Jr. at the end of 2020. A series of dire coincidences weaves together these three tragedies that happened in less than a decade.
Brown was Whitney’s life partner from 1992 to 2007 and together they were dynamite, really explosives. As their marriage came and went, Whitney leaned on Robyn Crawford, a close friend that the singer ended up expelling from her environment during the last time of her life. So when Houston died, it was his sister-in-law Patricia who took responsibility for the family businesses. Bobbi Kristina was 19 years old when she was found by her partner, unconscious and submerged in the bathtub at her home in Atlanta. She died six months later, on July 26, 2015, and part of the blame was placed on her boyfriend, Nick Gordon, who had been adopted at age 12 by Whitney. Nick had always been a kind of older brother to the girl, so some relatives came to classify this relationship as nothing short of incestuous.
As part of the testimonies collected in Whitney, the documentary directed by Kevin MacdonaldPatricia says that the artist was abused as a child, which caused a trauma that led her to become addicted. The diva’s sister-in-law also slides that although she had a luxurious life, Krissy would also have suffered during her childhood: “Watch what you do in front of your children. It is not enough just to talk to them. You have to teach them. It is not enough to have them. You have to be there for them. Be present in their lives. When [eres niña] and you are sitting there, observing and seeing certain things, well … “he says, hinting that his niece’s childhood had not been rosy.
Tragedy has been a constant in family life. A month after leaving this world, it became known that the official cause of Whitney’s death had been drowning, in addition to the “Effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use”. The report published by the Los Angeles County Forensic Department detailed that the diva died when she was submerged in the bathtub full of water, and also indicates that she had ingested cocaine. At the press conference afterward, coroner spokesman Craig Harvey said the level of cocaine in Whitney’s system indicated that he had used shortly before the accidental drowning and that there were signs of “chronic use.” Although the excess of substance was very high, it was determined that the death was accidental, Whitney was not looking to kill himself.
“We are saddened to learn of the toxicology results, although now we are happy to have a closure,” Patricia said at the time and went ahead with the billing machine as Whitney Houston became a trademark that continues to pay off. For his part, Bobby Brown (who was already separated from the singer) was really affected and ended up breaking when his daughter died. As if it weren’t enough pain, in November 2020 his son died and although at 52 the producer already has a new life made with another woman and more young children, the ghosts of the past always return to the ring.
Bobby Brown had had Junior with his previous partner, Kim Ward, and had also instilled in him the artistic streak. “Losing (my son) was very unexpected, like losing my daughter. We were in the studio two nights before. It was something that hit me very hard. He was a musician, he played the piano, he played the drums, he was a great writer. He was a teacher and apprentice. He learned from everyone around him and he taught as much as he learned, ”he told Will Smith’s wife on the Facebook Watch show. .
The young man was 27 years old and died of an overdose of cocaine, fentanyl and alcohol a few months ago. It was classified as an accidental death and the father minimized his son’s consumption: “He experimented with different things. It doesn’t mean that he depended on drugs like when I was in that situation. I depended. I needed it. Junior was a young man who tried the wrong things and it killed him. “
Brown has been drug free for almost 20 years and allowed himself to look back and talk about his relationship with his former wife, when the host of the show hinted that they had had an “abusive” relationship. “The violence that we incurred was the use of drugs, you know? That is violence in itself. We abuse drugs and alcohol. We fight a lot verbally and we love each other even more ” he sentenced sadly. Self-critical, he also spoke of the effort he makes to stay sober: “My body started to shut down because I was drinking a lot. My body was just giving up. Even with the alcohol, I got to a point where I needed it. I wasn’t getting drunk anymore. I wasn’t getting a little drunk anymore. I needed it to wake up. I needed it to stop the tremors and function on a day-to-day basis.
Until he died in January 2020 also from an overdose, Nick Gordon, Krissy’s partner, was the target of Bobby Brown’s wrath since the producer claimed that it was the young man who supplied both Whitney and his daughter, the drugs that They ended up killing them. Although Gordon at the time was held responsible for the death of Bobbi Kristina, he was sentenced to pay 36 million dollars, but never had a criminal conviction.
Of the protagonists of this story there are more dead than alive, but Whitney will continue to live in the memory of her fans, who will remember her for her unique voice, her distinguished sensuality, her leading role in The bodyguard, his 6 Grammys and Guinness certification for being the most awarded female artist of all time. For now.
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