- Bobbi Kristina Brown is Whitney Houston’s lone child
- Her begetter is Whitney’s ex-husband Bobby Brown
- Bobbi adored her parent and called her a ‘best friend’
- She claimed to person gotten joined to Nick Gordon successful 2014
- Bobbi tragically died successful 2015, akin to the mode her parent passed
Pop icon Whitney Houston is remembered arsenic one of the astir influential musicians successful history. She is the lone creator ever to illustration 7 No. 1 singles connected the Billboard Hot 100 consecutively and was the archetypal pistillate creator successful past to debut astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 chart. Plus, she’s a six-time Grammy winner and 25-time nominee. Furthermore, the Guinness World Records named the powerhouse vocalist arsenic the “most awarded pistillate creator of each time,” according to her website.
Perhaps her favourite accomplishment of them all, however, is becoming a mother. Whitney gave commencement to her archetypal and lone child, Bobbi Kristina Brown, with her then-husband Bobby Brown connected March 4, 1993. “She brings maine a batch of joy,” Whitney gushed to Entertainment Tonight soon aft welcoming her daughter. “It’s a antithetic happening erstwhile you go a mother. It changes your full position connected life. You truly don’t unrecorded for you anymore. You’re surviving for your children.”
Unfortunately, Bobbi died conscionable 3 years aft her parent successful 2015. She was 22 years old. Read connected to larn astir Bobbi and her tragic death.
Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Childhood
Bobbi Kristina Brown grew up successful the spotlight and often accompanied her parents to reddish carpet events, specified arsenic the 1994 American Music Awards erstwhile she was conscionable 11 months old. She was seemingly calved to beryllium a star, arsenic she appeared connected respective of Whitney’s songs arsenic a child, including the 1998 azygous “My Love Is Your Love”. As the opus begins, small Bobbi says, “Sing, Mommy”, and yells “Clap your hands!” arsenic the opus concludes. She was besides featured connected Whitney’s 2003 Christmas album, One Wish: The Holiday Album.
Bobbi didn’t conscionable turn up successful beforehand of photographers and microphones; she was recorded from a young age. She appeared successful Bobby Brown’s world bid Being Bobby Brown and starred successful The Houstons: On Our Own, which debuted successful 2012 aft Whitney’s tragic death. “I’m astir excited for radical to spot our household unneurotic arsenic a portion conscionable moving unneurotic being an existent family,” Bobbi told Entertainment Tonight up of the show’s premiere. “It’s not thing that’s fake — thing similar that. It’s america being a household and america getting done it together, and that’s however it is.”
Bobbi And Whitney Were Super Close
After Whitney’s abrupt death, Bobbi said her parent was her “best friend” successful an interrogation with Oprah Winfrey and recalled nights that Whitney would crawl successful furniture with her and clasp her each night. “That precise past day, it was so, truthful aboriginal successful the greeting … I went to spell get her and I said, ‘You cognize Mom, volition you conscionable travel laic with me?'” she recalled. “She stayed with maine each nighttime and each time … she was rubbing my head, conscionable holding me.”
Bobbi’s Last Year Of Life
The past twelvemonth of Bobbi’s beingness was plastered successful the tabloids. In July 2014, she had to support herself against a photograph that circulated that showed her allegedly smoking weed retired of a bong. She denied she was successful the representation with a Twitter statement. “I’ve ne'er posted immoderate photograph of maine doing thing ! This is idiosyncratic trying to tarnish and marque a horrible sanction for MYSELf,” she wrote. “People are insane.”
Being successful emotion is thee BEST feeling successful the satellite erstwhile it's with Y O U . . . 😊❤️💋❤️😍 iLoveYouBaby 😍💋 @nickdgordon ! pic.twitter.com/CNkK7EBQYQ
— Bobbi Kristina H.G. (@REALbkBrown) October 15, 2014
Bobbi’s matrimony was besides a blistery topic, arsenic she was conscionable 20 years aged erstwhile she announced that she and household person Nick Gordon tied the knot. She took to Twitter to denote the quality alongside a photograph of what appeared to beryllium their hands intertwined portion wearing wedding bands. “#HappilyMarried So #Inlove if you didn’t get it the archetypal clip that is,” she tweeted connected Jan. 9, 2014. After Bobbi’s death, it was revealed that she and Nick were not legally married.
The national confused immoderate fans due to the fact that Nick was taken successful by Whitney erstwhile helium was 12 and raised by her. However, Nick said his matrimony to Bobbi is what Whitney “wanted” successful a video obtained by TMZ. “This is precisely what she wanted … america together,” a smiling Bobbi confirmed.
Sadly, aft Bobbi’s passing, much airy was shed connected their matrimony successful a $40 cardinal suit filed against Nick by Bobbi’s conservators. Legal documents obtained by PEOPLE successful July 2015 claimed Nick “often answered Brown’s idiosyncratic compartment phone, would not let her to marque appointments without his approval, and manipulated her slope narration truthful that helium could entree her money.”
One of Bobbi’s closest friends, Alex Reid, aboriginal came guardant and corroborated the communicative that Nick was abusive. “Krissi was physically abused by Nick connected a fig of occasions and she told maine astir immoderate of them,” Alex claimed to E! News. “I ne'er witnessed thing … she would FaceTime maine each clip she was distraught, erstwhile thing has conscionable happened oregon amusement maine a bruise.” Nick died successful 2020 of a heroin overdose.
How Bobbi Kristina Died
Bobbi was recovered “face-down successful the bathtub” of her Roswell, Ga. location by Nick successful Jan. 2015, per PEOPLE. Sadly, the incidental occurred conscionable days earlier the 3rd day of her mom’s death, who was pronounced dormant aft being recovered unconscious successful a bathtub. Bobbi was past rushed to the infirmary and enactment into a medically induced coma.
In April of that year, her grandmother, Cissy Houston, shared an update connected her state. “I person conscionable returned from visiting my granddaughter Bobbi Bobbi successful the infirmary and portion she is nary longer successful a medically induced coma she has a tracheotomy and according to the doctors she has planetary and irreversible encephalon harm and remains unresponsive,” she told Us Weekly. “Meeting with the doctors and knowing that she tin unrecorded successful this information for a beingness genuinely saddens me. We tin lone spot successful God for a occurrence astatine this time. Keep america successful your prayers.”
Sadly, Bobbi Kristina died successful hospice attraction connected July 26, 2015. According to the medical examiner’s report, she died of pneumonia that was brought connected by a premix of drugs, including marijuana, “a cocaine-related substance” called benzoylecgonine, morphine that resulted from the usage of heroin, and alcohol, per CBS News. Bobbi is buried next to her parent astatine the Fairview Cemetery successful New Jersey.
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