At the same time, I also don't believe he did much to help her. Whitney Houston’s mom, Cissy, wrote in her 2013 book, Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped, that she did not "blame Bobby for introducing Nippy,” Houston’s nickname, “to drugs or for the things that ended up happening to her. While they tried not to do hard drugs in front of her, he acknowledged, "It’s hard when, you know, you’re doing it every day." (Bobbi Kristina died in 2015 in a manner eerily similar to her mother’s death.) "She just wasn't ready to go that direction," Brown said, referring to the reason behind Houston ultimately filing for divorce in 2006.īrown also acknowledged in the book that they did drugs at home while their daughter, Bobbi Kristina, was present. When one of them would get clean, the other wouldn’t want to, leading to a “big struggle” and eventually their divorce. He admitted they both had “terrible” addictions, especially "the last few years of our marriage." And they couldn’t break the cycle. "It wasn't me that started her ,” he said in an interview promoting the book.
He said Houston was actually the first to offer him cocaine - on their wedding day in 1992. In Brown’s 2016 memoir, Every Little Step, he disputed reports that he was responsible for Houston’s drug and alcohol problems. “That’s true,” Crawford replied before elaborating, “She wasn't doing regularly, but she would do it sometimes - and sometimes might overdo it.”Ĭrawford – who famously had a strained relationship with Brown – made it clear that Brown “didn’t introduce to cocaine. He said Crawford’s book states that Houston had been doing a fair amount of drugs before Brown came along. Melvin pointed out how Crawford writes in her book that Brown wasn’t the one to introduce Houston to drugs and didn’t “bring her down,” something he’s long been blamed for publicly. (In the ‘80s, Houston and Crawford denied they had a sexual relationship and Houston denied it many more times through the years.)
with Crawford becoming her personal assistant, roommate and - when Houston married New Edition heartthrob Brown in 1992 - maid of honor. They remained the best of friends, however.
However, Houston called it off in 1983 when she signed a deal with Arista, allegedly telling Crawford having a same-sex romance would hurt her career.
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Update your settings here to see it.Ĭrawford’s book notes that Houston told her she first used cocaine at age 14.Ĭrawford met Houston as teens at a summer camp in 1980 and Crawford wrote in her book that they became sexually intimate. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
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