Bobby Brown On Whitney Houston: “I Wasn’t The One That Got Whitney On Drugs”
Bobby Brown sat down with the Today show’s Matt Lauer to discuss his relationship with Whitney Houston and the truth behind their drug use. In the interview (airing Wednesday May 2 and Thursday May 3), Brown claims that he’s currently “very much clean and sober from narcotics”, and intends to dispel reports and assumptions that he was the one who hooked Houston on drugs. Read on for highlights from Brown’s candid interview.
Brown discusses the last time he saw Houston before her February 11 death, recalling that the singer “had this glow about her that was just, you know, incredible. I’m saying to myself, you know, ‘She must be … she must be doing really well,’ because she looked really well.”
When he found out that cocaine contributed to her passing, Brown admits he felt disappointed. “I was hurt. I was hurt… me being off of narcotics for the last seven years, I felt that she was, you know, I didn’t know she was struggling with it still. But at the same time, you know, listen, it’s a hard fight. It’s a hard fight to, you know, maintain sobriety that way.”
Brown revealed that it gets him upset when people blame him for pushing drugs on Houston during their 15-year marriage. “It makes me feel terrible,” Brown said. “But you know, I know differently. I think if anyone ever knew us, if anybody ever spent time around us instead of time lookin’ through the bubble, they would know how we felt about each other. They would know how happy we were together.”
“I didn’t get high [on narcotics] before I met Whitney,” he says. “I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn’t the one that got Whitney on drugs at all. It’s just… it’s just unexplainable how one could, you know, [say that I] got her addicted to drugs. I’m not the reason she’s gone.”
Brown, who was arrested for DUI in March, says the couple’s wake-up call to curb their drug use and change their lifestyle came after filming their reality show Being Bobby Brown. “We looked at the bubble and saw ourselves,” he recalls. “We was able to see what other people were saying about us, you know? We was able to see that our drug use had affected our relationship, had affected the love that we felt for each other.”
“I can honestly say that I love that woman with… everything that I am,” he continues. “And I believe she loved me the same way. We wouldn’t have been able to make the most beautiful girl in the world without love. And that’s the truth.”
Brown’s fiance, Alicia Etheridge, and his three children, Landon, Bobby Jr., and La’Princia, will also sit down with Matt Lauer. “I feel like my father’s always had the bad boy image,” says Landon. “So, you know, they just keep followin’ that. Anything that they can take a negative from the situation, they blow it out of proportion and blame him.”
Brown and Houston’s “most beautiful girl in the world”, 19-year-old Bobbi Kristina, is not expected to take part in the interview.
[Via E! Online]
