Bobby Brown, 43, sat down with Matt Lauer of the “Today show” in his first exclusive interview since his ex-wife, Whitney Houston died. Brown told host Matt Lauer that he had been off drugs for seven years and was hurt to hear that Houston had been using cocaine. And of course we all know, this was Bobby’s chance to clear the air, since the world blames him for getting Whitney hooked on drugs.
“I’m not the one that got Whitney hooked on drugs, at all,” Brown said in an interview to be aired this week on the Today show and “I’m not the reason she’s gone,” he added.
“I was hurt … because, you know, 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,” he said.
Brown said drugs were part of Houston’s life before he met her in 1991. “I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn’t the one that got Whitney on drugs at all,” he said.
“So this was a part of her life before you and she got together?” Lauer asked.
“Way, way before. Yeah … 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 replied.
Bobby spoke about the last time he saw Whitney, which was a week before she died, they were at a restaurant having dinner with their daughter, Bobby Kristina.
Brown said Houston had a “glow about her” “She just looked like she was in a good place,” he said.
The interview will air Wednesday and Thursday on the “Today show” on NBC.
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They were not good together cause they fueled each others addictions; but SHE is responsible for what led up to her death.
Morning fam.
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good morning
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wassup
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morning people.
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Good morning good people. 🙂
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hey y’all
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They were not good together cause they fueled each others addictions; but SHE is responsible for what led up to her death.
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She made her own choices and paid the ultimate price with her life.
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good Tuesday morning everyone.
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whitney killed whitney… she was in charge of her own life.
Morning ceo family
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Morning Fam.
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Ello everyone.
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whaddup erbody
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Afternoon Ceo Fam.
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Sup erbody
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Good afternoon folky folks.
I hour left and my Tuesday is OVA 🙂
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Afternoon Fam.
May Whitney Houston R.I.P.
Regardless to Bobby’s interview, none of it matters now. But I guess NBC4 wanted to give him the opportunity to clear his name.
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Hello peoples. 🙂
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Hello everyone.
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wassup people.
looks like Tra posted this early. so i’m late. lol i’m use to her posting late. oh well
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Hey everyone: although some of y’all prolly gone by now.
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What UP everybody
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Damn so I missed everybody this morning it look like.
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Evening all
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Ah damn I’m late.
Peace people.
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Who is to blame? How about Whitney! She was an adult and knew the drugs, booze, and lifestyle was killing her. Blame who you want, but ultimately, she killed herself. Case closed.
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Whitney was going to get the drugs with or without her ex husband. That is the sad fact of drug addiction
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It’s called personal responsibility!!! And it’s time Whitney’s fam own up to dat shit. Those in her entourage who was close to her, they knew she was blazin. and bobby brown was no where near the beverly hilton when she died.
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Whitney Houston was an addict. She could not or would not address her addiction. instead she masked it, she died and now the world knows. we need to move on now.
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Many people who were close to Houston in the early days have come out and said that she was on drugs long before she met Bobby, so we know it wasn’t him.
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here we go again, can we all just move on. and why not let bobby brown stay under is rock with his “always lookin drunk azz”
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In life you choose blessings or cursings??? Whitney was blessed but chose to live out a curse and it killed her. The devil took her life because he’s the master of curses. God blessed her and the devil tempted her. She was worshipping 2 Gods and you can only worship 1!!!!!
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Gotta give it to Bobby Brown though. Whitney left him, then got her azz on Oprah claiming sobriety and trashed him. When all along she lied about her lifestyle and was showed up in the end. yet Bobby Brown never came out and spoke against her, he just moved on with his life.
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Cosign…he held his peace and his tongue about her.
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Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston were no good together period. But Whitney CHOSE her own demise. She was well connected with cocaine way BEFORE Bobby. She was indeed in denial about her drug use when she appeared on Oprah and was acting like she was better than Bobby.
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Cosign…he held his peace and his tongue about her.
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I agree about Bobby taking the high road and not talking about Whitney but Bobby has been thrown, tossed, and flipped under the bus so I see why he would want to clear his name.
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Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston were no good together period.
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Cosign. He said them both being on drugs ruined their marriage. Wow. so very sad. 😦 that reality show didn’t help either.
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I too fed into the media blitz blaming Bobby for Whitney’s drug use…but the TRUTH did come out she was on drugs b4 she met Bobby. I am a Whitney fan, but if you take a 22 y.o. kid and expose him to all the drugs money can buy and all the liquor he wants, Whitney probably did more harm to Bobby!!! People seem to forget Bobby had a successful career when he met Whitney including an acting career. Some of her family might feel guilty for not getting her help long b4 she met Bobby and are making him the scapegoat.
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drug addicts are responsible for their own actions.
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Bobby spoke about the last time he saw Whitney, which was a week before she died, they were at a restaurant having dinner with their daughter, Bobby Kristina.
Brown said Houston had a “glow about her” “She just looked like she was in a good place,” he said.
She was FRONTIN for him just like she was FRONTIN for the world when behind closed doors she was still getting high. 😦 sad she was lying about being sober.
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Whitney’s dead, let’s move on…yeah its sad but she made a choice!
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Cmon people it’s proven. You have talent & make good money…you get what you want. The pattern is obvious. Elvis, Michael, Janis, Belushi, Ledger, Cobain, Morrison…blame game is stupid. If you’re an addict…you either straighten up or end up like these people.
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Oh yeah and this is why Eddie Murphy supposedly cut her off because of the drugs.
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Was it the crack that fucked up Bobby’s jaw like that?
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“Was it the crack that fucked up Bobby’s jaw like that?”
Nah @Cameo,
His mouth is twisted because he had a fucking stroke, a direct result of crack cocaine use.
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Who introduced Whitney to drugs? When did she first start taking them? So many unanswered questions..
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Who introduced Whitney to drugs? When did she first start taking them? So many unanswered questions..
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could of been her brother. Gary was a blaze head too. Whitney started with weed and beer and it grew from there. doesn’t matter tho who introduced her, it ruined her.
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Who introduced Whitney to drugs?
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doesn’t matter @ this point.
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Who introduced Whitney to drugs?
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WHo really knows, the truth died with Whitney and we should let her R.I.P.
I hate that they DUGG Bobby’s azz up for this.
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Who introduced Whitney to drugs?
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Doesn’t matter because now her daughter is left to deal with her own addictions. That’s the sad part.
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YASHA LET THIS BE A LESSON TO OUR YOUTH THAT DRUGS AND ALCOHOL CAN RUIN THE BEST OF ANYONE – WHITNEY HOUSTON INCLUDED.
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That’s right Bobby Tell em!!!!
Don’t blame me!!!!
I believe him, when Whitney left Bobby she was on her own and b4 then she was her own woman., so stop pointing the blame @ him.
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Bobby can say whatever the hell he wants but the facts remain that whitney DIDNOT have her downfall until she married him. All signs point to bobby introducing a certain type of drug most likely crack to whitney. She didn’t miss shows or appear high prior to her marriage to bobby. He didn’t make her do it but I believe he sure as hell introduced crack to whitney.
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Sane,
He did not introduce drugs to Whiney but he was doing more of a little weed.
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wasn’t nan none of us there so we don’t know WTF kinda shit they got high off of. Hell it doesn’t matter! They divorced, she dead and he got a kid and another girl later.
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@Bobby,
Cant agree with you more…..Whitney was a grown aSS woman who decided getting high was something her and her crack-head boyfriend/husband were both doing willingly and they enjoyed it. Day in, day out!
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Didn’t Bobby and Whitney BOTH lie in that diane sawyer interview and say that he never did powder? of course that lie was glossed over later.
I’ll take a ‘NIGGA SIT DOWN’ for $500 alex
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Didn’t Bobby and Whitney BOTH lie in that diane sawyer interview and say that he never did powder? of course that lie was glossed over later.
I’ll take a ‘NIGGA SIT DOWN’ for $500 alex
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NO they said he was bi-polar and did a little bit of weed.
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I’ll take a ‘NIGGA SIT DOWN’ for $500 alex
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LOL 🙂 Leave Bobby alone and let him tell his story and LIVE.
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Bebe Winans is supposedly writing a memoir about his days with Whitney. Who’s next? Robyn?
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Bebe Winans is supposedly writing a memoir about his days with Whitney. Who’s next? Robyn?
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Guess there’s enuff money to be made by all off of her name. Cissy supposedly writing a book too.
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Bebe Winans is supposedly writing a memoir about his days with Whitney. Who’s next? Robyn?
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You know everbody gonna try to make some kind of duckets off of Whitney.
Everybody got they hand in the cookie jar, and trying to get cookies…smh @ the leeches
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Bebe Winans is supposedly writing a memoir about his days with Whitney. Who’s next? Robyn?
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I’d buy Robins. She said Whitney knew she would never talk about their relationship because of her loyalty to her and she never did.
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C’mon now was this interview with Bobby really necessary??? Let Whitney R.I.P.
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Bobby keep doing you!
#TEAMBOBBY
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If anyone should speak on WH it should be Bobby. They were together for almost 20 yrs. They dated several years before marrying.
Bobby’s doing just fine these days and i’m happy for him. I’m glad he spends the majority of his time with his family. I wish she could have got herself together, but she didn’t.
Besides you reap what you sow. People keep calling her an angel which she was not. That woman had a nasty temper on her for sure. He was the nice one in the relationship.
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Life is a precious thing and her death caused a lot of hurt. She had a mother that loved her and a child that needed her. They will never hug/kiss her ever again.
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Yeah people need to “STOP!” putting all the blame on Bobby Brown for Whitney’s demise.
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R.I.P. Whitney.
Go head Bobby tell your story then move on.
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Let me add my 2 cents, Bobby Brown did NOT get Whitney on drugs. She was on them WAY before they got together, so yeah I believe him and will be TUNED into this interview.
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Damn. Bobby Brown was actually married to Whitney Houston, back at a time when she was really Whitney Houston.
Well, at least they ALMOST had it all but they fucked it up.
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Wow I wanna here what he’ll have to say: WHITNEY was a talent but she was also a lost soul and because she sold millions of records that doesn’t negate the fact that she didnt care about her ownself enough to have a desire to quit. Not even for her daughter, so FUCKED UP!!!
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Whitney’s brother Gary used to sell drugs in Newark and South Orange back in the day.
Whitney had tons of issues before she even met Bobby. She and Bobby were not good for each other, but it’s unfair to blame all of Whitney’s problems on him.
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Whitney’s brother Gary used to sell drugs in Newark and South Orange back in the day.
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yeah because he was caught with drugs on him when they traveled 2gether years ago. But he seemed pretty str8 on Oprah. Esp. when he sung one of Whitney’s songs.
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Whitney had tons of issues before she even met Bobby. She and Bobby were not good for each other, but it’s unfair to blame all of Whitney’s problems on him.
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EXACTLY, HE’S BASICALLY SAYING that he wasn’t into hard drugs before he met her.
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@POINTMAN: Whitney’s brothers were dope addicts before her and introduced her to them (drugs).
I’m surprised everyone is dismissing the interview that Whitney’s ex-sister-in-law did with Drew Petersen. She stated that her husband (Whitney’s brother) was an addict, and so was the other brother. She beat around the bush, but left the viewer with the feeling that one or the other—or both—introduced her to narcotics. So the Houston family has a problem with drug addiction.
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They are both examples of people who had talent and chose to waste it all. Just two more in the line of many. That’s all.
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Alcohol, crack, weed and anything else that alters our minds are DRUGS. Alcohol is a drug and kills more people and families than any drug on the market. ALCOHOL IS A DRUG. WE MUST ABSTAIN FROM ALL DRUGS IN ORDER TO RECOVER and Bobby look like he’s a heavy drinker.
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Whitney was an addict and she married her “get HIgh” partner. Mr. Brown was not responsible for Whitney’s demise. Her being addicted to drugs, not because of who she was married to messed up her life and cut it short. Whitney could have been married to President Obama and her life still would have been the life of an addict. So Stop putting the blame on Mr. Brown, because Whitney was a grown woman and knew exactly what was going on with Whitney.
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I’m sorry that Bobby Brown feels the need to dignify the finger-pointing with an answer. He can’t do or say anything that will change the minds of those people who want to hold him responsible for Whitney’s death. Ultimately, we all do what we do. Sometimes we can come back from bad choices, and sometimes we can’t. Whitney is gone so address anything at all. NBC just needed a story.
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nobody can control your behavior but you. bobbie brown, while he has his own issues, did not force Whitney Houston to be a drug user. Blaming him for her death is a way of deflecting ones own guilt for things not done, not said before it was too late.
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He wasn’t with her when she died, so who gave her the drugs? And why didn’t her assistant answer her or come to her aid when she phoned and texted her? Who does that anyway (ignoring their bosses text messages and phone calls)?
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He wasn’t with her when she died, so who gave her the drugs? And why didn’t her assistant answer her or come to her aid when she phoned and texted her? Who does that anyway (ignoring their bosses text messages and phone calls)?
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she knew Whitney was getting high or already high. she was also already upset that Whitney had made a fool out of herself for startin shitn in that nighclub 2 nites b4 with some girl over that leech RayJ.
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R.I.P. Whitney
Bobby Brown take care of yourself man, that baby needs you now.
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If Whitney married a man who loved her enough and fought to keep himself (if he had a drug problem) as well as his wife off of the poison and provide her with a happy home void of substance abuse, I believe the story would’ve played out differently.
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How does one blame another adult for what another adult does? Whitney was an adult and her choices were her own.
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Whitney was an adult and her choices were her own. ->Right they enabled each other. One difference he got clean she sadly didn’t.
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Whitney was an adult and her choices were her own.
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Exactly what you said., she made her own choices.
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I believe BobbyB and I dont believe bobby brown got whitney on drugs..because in an interview with oprah with her brother and sister in-law..she got high with her brother before she met bobby brown..but the person i am concerned with is their daughter at this point.
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I watched the Oprah interview and not even knowing the woman I heard her dry coke voice and knew she was using. I find it hard to believe this was a shock to the people close to her.
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@Intense,
IT WASN’T. But she fed the mouths of many. Who was gonna mess up that industry?
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He didn’t hook her and she didn’t hook him, they were both using when their TWO destructive worlds met. They were able to hide the facts that they were users until their worlds came tumbling down. Now she’s dead and we all need to face reality and move on. Bobby you owe us NO answers Boo, continue to live and do you.
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Dayum that’s what I just said Natasha.
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I think both of them was on that shit when they met and it got out of control.
I have never heard any of her family state publicly that Whitney’s drug addiction was Bobby’s fault. People are mixing up fans and media with the family.
Also let’s be real, outside of Whitney, bobby created his own public image. Pissing in cop cars, in and out of jail, not paying his child support, Whitney calling the police for domestic violence and while married having an affair with Karrine Steffens.
So for those who believe otherwise GTFOH!
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Morning everyone,
Did anyone see this interview this morning? I think Bobby have some REGRETS over his relationship/marriage to Whitney because he said he wished he had done more. Sad he’s just now regreting after the fact.
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Hey Daisy,
I saw the interview and if I were his fiance I wouldn’t marry him knowing he still love his ex-wife with all his heart like he said.
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Hey Ladies:
All i have to say is: 6 kids by different women, Bobby Brown is not a candidate for marriage.
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Wassup y’all,
@Daisy, Bobby was tryna be real careful with what he said and how he said it, knowing damn well he was gettin high when he met Whitney, that’s what they had in common.
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daisy bobby still has an immaturity about him which is why i believe bobbi kris don’t respect him so much. but yeah i watched that a lil tid-bit of that interview i don’t think it’s neccessary to have in 2 2 days esp. since matt wasn’t touchin on nothing real deep like they claimed.
morning ladies.
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Happy HUMP day ladies 🙂
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Did anyone see this interview this morning?
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YES and it’s bullshit stuff. channel 4 just tryna rack up some ratings by dragging whitney houston into whateva it is bobby is tryin NOT to say.
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Did anyone see this interview this morning? —> yeah i tuned in to watch bobby stumble and studder over his words. we know whitney wasn’t no angel so he don’t owe the public shit
morning daisy, lexy, corp, acquitta and all the rest of y’all. 🙂
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hello everybody,
no didn’t see bobby’s interview and from what i’m reading i didn’t miss much.
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good morning all.
ebony, daisy, corp and the rest.
no didn’t watch the interview, at this point what bobby gon say. c’mon i mean really.
r.i.p. nippy
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morning…..we need a new post or something else to talk about.
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didn’t waste my time with that interview.
hey everybody….there’s a new post up.
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Did anyone see this interview this morning?
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I saw it…Bobby just wanted to clear his name. but he said, he generally loved whitney and still does.
@Acquitta, I wouldn’t marry him either knowing he still loved his exwife, hell NO
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