In an interview with Robin Roberts on ABC’s “20/20” about his new memoir, singer Bobby Brown was especially candid about the relationship and information regarding the tragic deaths of his former wife, Whitney Houston, and his daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown.
Along with the volatile romance, which ended in 2006 when Houston filed for divorce, Brown said that he and the pop star had devolved into a pattern of drug abuse.
Brown and Houston would lock themselves in one wing of their mansion, getting high while nannies cared for their daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown just rooms over.
“I always made it a point to not let her see me or my wife in that type of situation,” he insisted, though. “It’s hard when you’re doing it every day, it’s really hard.”
In his book (entitled Every Little Step), according to 20/20, Brown cites cocaine, alcohol and crack-laced joints as his substances of choice.
“The last few years of our marriage it was terrible,” he explained. “Both of us trying to be clean, or one of us trying to be clean… it was terrible.”
Of involving Bobbi Kristina, Brown admitted, “We could have been better. We should have been better.”
Brown also opens up about his daughter Bobbi Kristina’s drug abuse–which led to her death on July 26, 2015, nearly six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her Roswell, Georgia home.
“The same thing that happened to my daughter, it happened to Whitney,” he tells Roberts. “The hardest thing I had to do in my life was tell my daughter to let go.”
Sadly, Brown says that Bobbi Kristina had agreed to move to Los Angeles.
Brown also revealed that his daughter was set to relocate to Los Angeles to live closer to him just two days before the incident.
“The two days before what happened to my daughter, she was to come out here to Los Angeles to me,” Brown said, fighting back tears. “If I could get those two days back… my daughter would be here. All I want is those two days back.”
Sources: ABC.com, People.com, Star Magazine.
