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Bobby Brown says he didn’t get Houston into drugs
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 1 May 2012
Bobby Brown has hit back at allegations that he was responsible for hooking his ex-wife Whitney Houston onto drugs. Said allegation surfaced several times after Houston’s premature death in February, as various pundits noted that the last decade of the singer and actress’s life was frequently dogged by drug addiction.
In an interview with NBC’s ‘Today’ show, Brown discusses both his and Hoston’s drug problems, insisting he has been off the drugs for seven years now, and that he believed his ex-wife had likewise ceased to be dependent on narcotics. But, as previously reported, a coroner concluded that the late singer died of accidental drowning due to the effects of cocaine and heart disease.
Brown says: “I was hurt … because, you know, me being off of narcotics for the last seven years – I felt that she was [too], I didn’t know she was struggling with it still. But at the same time, you know – listen, it’s a hard fight”.
Asked about the allegations it was he who introduced the singer to drugs after they first met in 1991, Brown denied that was the case. Asked if he was saying Houston had been taking drugs before they first met, he said: “Way, way before. Yeah … It’s just unexplainable how one could [say that I] got her addicted to drugs. I’m not the reason she’s gone”.
