Bobby Brown gave a lengthy and exclusive interview to Robin Roberts at 20/20, and online media has been saturated with details and quotes from the interview all week. This is being billed as Bobby’s first major interview since the death of his daughter, Bobbi Kristina, last year. Bobbi Kristina was his only child with the late Whitney Houston, although he has five other children. Honestly, I was ignoring all of the headlines and videos from the interview, mostly because Bobby has had so much pain and messiness in his life, and I’m not sure the best place for him is in front of a TV camera. So, I wasn’t paying attention until this headline stopped me in my tracks: “Bobby Brown Claims He Had Sex with a Ghost.” Seriously. Unfortunately, the interview isn’t all ghost-banging though. He also admits he once hit Whitney, and he says that Bobbi Kristina’s husband Nick Gordon had something to do with her death. Some assorted quotes:
That time he had sex with a ghost: “I bought this mansion in Georgia … this was a really, really spooky place. But yes, one time, I woke up, and yeah, a ghost. I was being mounted by a ghost…I wasn’t high. I was not trippin’.”
Bobbi Kristina’s drug abuse: “The same thing that happened to my daughter, it happened to Whitney. The hardest thing I had to do in my life was tell my daughter to let go.”
On Nick Gordon: “He knows what happened. I don’t know what happened that night. But he does.”
He wasn’t to blame for Whitney’s addiction: “It wasn’t me. I take my part and I take it hard for me even being a part of it, but we all have our own minds and some of us are stronger than others.” In his new memoir, Every Little Step, he describes seeing his ex-wife hunched over a bureau snorting a line of coke before their wedding, which she allegedly offered to him, but he says he did not accept. “It was the first time I actually had saw her do drugs. It only made me love her and want to protect her more.”
His violence towards Whitney: He told Roberts, “They said that I’ve harmed Whitney, that I was violent towards her. It was just lies. I’ve never been a violent man towards a woman ever.” But in his book, he does admit to striking the singer once. “I did. Me at the time, trying to maintain a sobriety and the person that’s in your relationship is not going aloing with it—it was rough.”
I actually think Bobby is probably telling the truth about not being the one who got Whitney on drugs. Meaning, I think Whitney was a mess (a quiet mess) before they even met, and I think she was attracted to Bobby because he would let her be who she really was. As in, they made each other worse. And doing a line of coke before your wedding? Classy. As for the ghost-sex… sure. Whatever, Bobby.
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The deaths of Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina are both so disturbingly sad I have avoided reading about them for a long time. If there is justice to be made, I hope it happens one day.
Ghost sex. Who knew? Whitney made her own choices, but I wonder if it was helpful that her taking drugs only made him love her and want to protect her more? I’m not blaming him, but I find that sort of an odd reaction.
I too felt that reaction was odd, especially on a wedding day. Wouldn’t you want to know that the person you’re marrying is entirely present for such an occasion? I mean, I would.
Yes, I would feel hurt, I think. And upset that this was the first time I’m hearing about this.
He said it was the first time he SAW her do drugs in person. Even if his story here is true, he choose certain words & knew she was doing drugs before then.
I find his story to be riddled with half truths, 10% truths & ‘romance’. At least his brand of romance (see feeling love when your bride does a line of coke before the vows). I think he is full of crap and will never speak the honest truth and doesn’t have to- the two women who could say the most are not here. It’s amazing to me that he was the one who survived their insane lifestyle. Bobby Brown saying he never hit her and then saying it was only once because he was sober but she was using…….get out of here & let me slam the door on your a$$ on the way out.
Well he clearly enabled her because he didn’t do anything to stop her drug habit. However ghost sex made me think of Denny Duquette (Older, better Grey’s!).
Sex with a Ghost; it’s called a wet dream Bobby.
Then again I don’t know. I watch shows like The Hunted, A Hunting and When Ghost Attack and these people will almost convince you that they are telling true accounts of being hunted by demons and ghost.
In demonology, there is a type demon called a “succubus”. They have sex with sleeping men.
I’ve heard that, scary.
As I recall it has been admitted that her brother was the first to expose her to drugs? Her relationship with Brown was certainly not healthy but yes I believe the dogs started before him.
Their poor daughter never had a chance.
Yes, that is my recollection too. His brother introduced her. He helped her along the dark tunnel of hell, but he didn’t introduce her.
I also believe Whitney was using before Bobby came into the scene, but I believe their relationship made a bad situation worse. I also believe that Kristina was going down the same road as her mother, even getting involved with an enabler, just like Whitney.
He also acknowledges in US Weekly that Whitney had been in a romantic relationship with Robyn Crawford for a long time, and that had Cissy Houston been more accepting of Whitney’s sexuality, Whitney would likely still be alive today. Having to stay in the closet and pretend she was something she wasn’t did her in. As it has with so many, many people, regardless of their celebrity.
–TheRealPinky
GMAB We don’t know if staying in the closet is what “did her in”.There are millions of addicts who are not in the closet.There are millions of addicts who are not dealing with issues surrounding their sexuality.BTW Robyn was not Whitney’s only same sex relationship so she may have not have been out to the public but she definitely didn’t suppress her sexuality.
False equivalency.
Besides, this was Bobby’s interpretation of how it impacted her life. And, yes, there are plenty of people, particularly in the ’80s and ’90s, and even now, who’ve been pressured to stay in the closet and it’s been detrimental to their lives, if not lethal. Coletta.
–TheRealPinky
While I haven’t seen a picture of Cissy Houston lately, the last time I did she looked like a shadow of herself. I’m sure she thinks about this every day and it shows. I want to be mad but I can’t. I feel very very sorry for her. To have to bury your daughter and your granddaughter, and knowing a change in your attitude might have made the outcome different is a hell I would not wish on anyone.
Yeah- Bobby Brown wished it upon her. He is saying that if Cissy was different, Whitney would be alive and it’s now on a bunch of websites & tabloids.
Maybe it’s true and hopefully it makes other parents pause before they react to their child coming out but…..I take everything this creep says with a boulder of salt.
Forget about all the horrid drug use & physical, emotional & verbal abuse he did to Whitney over decades….naw- it was Cissy that killed her daughter.
This guy is a total POS & was the first Chris Brown. Why are we listening to him?! People feel sorry for him now that his ex-wife & daughter are dead. I feel empathy, as I do for anyone who is grieving a loss, but I don’t buy anything he has to say & he gives no accountability. He was (is) an abusive piece of crap that has valued his drug use over all the people in his life, does what ever he wants (see his songs) and couldn’t give a crap about anything but himself. He should have paid more attention to his daughter while she was alive and gotten help after he hit Whitney the 1st time- oh and maybe he should have reached out to his daughter who was being abused just like he did to Whitney. After all, he knows the drill.
Mess of a man. Mess of a woman. Mess of a family.
Rip to Whitney and Bobbi Kristina.
If there was ever any example about how devastating and ruthless drugs are this is the picture perfect one. When you have to have a Sweet 16 funeral for a child something has gone horribly wrong her entire life.
Ironically he’s the one who lives to tell the tale.
Well, Whitney’s brother already admitted that he was the one that offered Whitney crack for the first time. So, there’s really nothing to doubt there. I just feel bad because her family let Bobby take the fall this WHOLE time. Although, I’m sure he probably went along with it since she was the top earner. As far as the ghost story… he should have kept that to himself. Also, why would anyone buy a spooky mansion?! I guess some of those scary movies aren’t lying. People may just be that dumb.
I do actually feel bad for Bobby b/c as you say, her family let him take the fall for her drug use and actually out-right publicly blamed him. He was respectful and stayed pretty quiet on the subject for years.
Maybe he knowingly bought a spooky mansion with succubines b/c he was horny…horny but too lazy to go get some on his own. So he just laid there and let a ghost ho do her thing. I like to picture him playing the old, “No, stop. This isn’t right.” while he actually did nothing to stop it. LOL
“doing a line of coke before your wedding? Classy”
Well, yeah if your addicted to drugs then anytime is convenient.
What a tradgey.
Rest in peace Whitney and Bobbi Kristina.
I could be wrong but Whitney was pregnant with Bobbi Kristina when she married Bobby Brown. That makes the snorting cocaine before the wedding story more disturbing.
My problem with Bobby is his story keeps changing .Last year he claimed he first saw her use drugs on their honeymoon now he is claiming it was on their wedding day.He also told Behind the Music he remembers nothing from the time he recorded the Bobby album to the Forever Album(Summer 1992-Fall 1997).Yet the book talks a lot about that time period.Add to that his belief that a ghost “rode him” but he wasn’t high.SMH
I gotta get off this thread. I am getting so mad! How we have short term memories sometimes……(see Bobby Brown & Depp). Brown is getting all these headline like what he says is truth.
This guy is a narcissistic, drug filled, abusive pos. He will never tell the truth unless he gets serious help. He will always twist stories, the past & present to fit what he wants to project to people. Even if it means trashing his dead ex-wife & daughter. When men get old & crusty & sad, they can still be those same violent creeps they were in the past- just with less energy & more ability to hide it.
I hate seeing his face, his sideways smirk & I blame him for being a negative, abusive energy in people’s life. He is just an older, washed up version of Chris Brown…..
What level of astral projection is that?
I’m hoping the ghost was not trying to mount him but trying to strangle him to death……he has a habit of confusing violence & love so maybe he didn’t know the difference?!
While I believe Bobby on the Whitney doing drugs before him I full 100% blame him and Whitney and the complacency and fame hunger of their relatives in the fall of Bobbi Kris, we all were here when Being Bobby Brown aired, they legit had that child in that mess of a situation and everyone keeKee’d about it because this is when we saw it for messe tv ( see: Smith, Anna Nicole)
I agree with you. They both sent that poor kid on a path of self-destruction. She didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell.
Roughly 15 years ago I had a similar experience. As I recall, I woke to the distinct feeling of weight on top of me and penetration… I thought I was dreaming at first. It actually wasn’t scary at the time, it was similar to having a sex dream but I was definitely awake. I’ve thought about it a couple of times over the years but never told anyone. Its not exactly something that comes up in conversation… apparently unless you’re Bobby Brown.
The interview was interesting, but I don’t believe much of it since Whitney and Bobbi are not here to defend themselves.