Bobby Brown has a new book and of course he is going to write/talk about Whitney Houston. I haven't read the book, but this one passage has been circulating through the internet. It is very enlightening and is going to get a bunch of notice. Bobby says the only reason Whitney married Bobby was to stop all of the lesbian and bisexual rumors. Bobby married Whitney for love.
"(The marriage) was doomed from the very beginning... I think we got married for all the wrong reasons. Now, I realize Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married...I believe her agenda was to clean up her image, while mine was to be loved and have children."
If you read the next passage carefully and you can see that Bobby hints that Whitney is bisexual. It is very carefully edited by the publishers. It is just a hint or a tease but doesn't come right out and say she is.
"The media was accusing her of having a bisexual relationship with her assistant, Robin Crawford. Since she was the American Sweetheart and all, that didn't go too well with her image...In Whitney's situation, the only solution was to get married and have kids. That would kill all speculation, whether it was true or not."
Whether it was true or not. When you just leave that hanging out there with no closure you know what the perception is going to be and now Whitney is going to be asked about it and Bobby is and don't be surprised if some other people come out of hiding for some paychecks from tabloids.
As Whitney Houston bares her past troubles to Oprah Winfrey, ex-husband Bobby Brown adds his side of their tragic story, saying both were to blame for their tumultuous relationship.
"I think we corrupted each other," Brown, 40, tells The Insider. "I don't think she hurt me or I hurt her. I just think we had a 14-year marriage that had its ups and downs and not many people understood it."
Brown says he used "an awful lot" of cocaine – "a powerful drug," he notes – starting after his marriage to Houston in 1992.
"I think I was bored," says Brown, who also opens up to VH1's Behind the Music on Sept. 24. "I had just gotten married and things weren't right. Unfortunately, I turned to alcohol and drugs."
Brown still feels the sting of their failed marriage, saying the first time her met her at the Soul Train Music Awards is "one of the things I try to forget."
Jealousy and emotional abuse derailed Whitney Houston's once-happy marriage to Bobby Brown, the R&B diva revealed during an emotional interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Telling the talk show host about her post-Bodyguard career highs, Houston says her then-husband couldn't handle her success. "I think somewhere inside, something happens to a man when a woman has that much control or has that much fame," the singer said during her much-hyped appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show that aired Monday. (Part two of the interview will air on Tuesday).
Asked if Brown was jealous of her, Houston, 46, told Winfrey, "he's not going to like this, but yes."
Tried to Make Him Happy
But Houston said she tried to play down her fame, referring to herself as "Mrs. Brown" and even agreeing to appear in the now-parodied Being Bobby Brown reality show to make him happy. "I did it for him," Houston said. "How could you do a reality show – and I'm your wife – and not have [me] in it?"
Another reason for appearing on the show: Houston wanted to prove a skeptical public wrong – to show that their union was strong.
"I wasn't happy with the marriage. I was losing it," she said. "[But] I was determined to prove [my critics] all wrong."
"After a while you start to lose the real concept of the love [we shared]," she continued. "I was trying to make a statement: 'You guys aren't going to win. We have a family and I'm just not going to let you do that to us.'"
Drugs & Abuse
More troubling, though, were Houston's revelations that Brown was abusive. "Emotionally he was abusive," she said. "Physically, no way. I was raised with two [brothers] and I would fight you back with anything I could find."
While the R&B superstar said her ex-husband "slapped [her] once," she retaliated and hit back. Houston also revealed that after The Bodyguard, she and Brown began to do more drugs – specifically cocaine and marijuana. "That's it," she said, adding, "He liked to drink."
And when Brown would drink, she revealed, things would get particularly nasty. One extremely low point occurred on a night she threw him a birthday party in Atlanta.
"When we got back to the house," Houston said, "he spit on me. He spit on me. He actually spit on me. And my daughter was coming down the stairs and she saw it. That was pretty intense. I didn't grow up with that and I didn't understand why that occurred – [why] he had such a hate for me because I loved him so much."
Downward Spiral
She continued to love him, she says, even as he was unfaithful. "Holy matrimony was a very serious thing for me. I was going to keep my vow. I never cheated," she says. "The only thing I did was the drugs. . . . He was too promiscuous, dragging dirt into my home. It disturbed me."
Her drugs of choice were marijuana and rock cocaine. "I was trying to hide the pain," she says.
Along the way, Houston says, she gave up on her career. "I had totally forgotten about that life," she says. "I had so much money by that point. I wasn't thinking about any of that."
A recently published autobiography by an ex-New York gang member has made public a 1993 incident in which Bobby Brown was allegedly kidnapped and held at gunpoint, until then-wife Whitney Houston came to the rescue with a duffel bag containing a $400,000 ransom. While the two are no longer married, one wonders how in the world the marriage lasted 14 years following such an incident.
The book, Preacher of the Streets by ex-Preacher Crew member David Collins, goes into great detail about the incident, in which Brown was lured into an abandoned Bronx apartment after failing to pay a $25,000 drug debt. Once there, Brown was “knocked out with one punch,” only to wake up “naked and hog-tied, his mouth stuffed with a rag.” Brown reportedly begged for his life and assured the kidnappers that Houston could pay the debt. A phone call made to her sealed the deal – she was to personally bring $400,000 to the abandoned apartment to keep her husband alive. Collins claims Houston showed up the next day, in a wig and sunglasses, and dropped off the money.
Neither Brown nor Houston was injured during the incident, and the kidnapping was never reported to the police. Spokespeople for both Houston and Brown refused to comment on the kidnapping allegations.
All of this took place while Houston was at her career peak, less than two years after the release of The Bodyguard film and soundtrack, for which she is still most acknowledged. Her remake of “I Will Always Love You” was the number one song in the country for 14 straight weeks, and remains the third-highest-selling song of all time.
Brown and Houston finally divorced in 2007, after a 15-year marriage that was turbulentl to say the least. While married, Houston found herself in rehab not once but three times, welfare workers threatened to take custody of their daughter Bobbi, and police were called to break up domestic incidents at their home on numerous occasions.
Whitney Houston is currently in the studio again with music impresario Clive Davis, her former mentor. Her comeback album has been on the books for some time now, and the public is hoping to hear it later this year.
Bobby Brown has a new book and of course he is going to write/talk about Whitney Houston. I haven't read the book, but this one passage has been circulating through the internet. It is very enlightening and is going to get a bunch of notice. Bobby says the only reason Whitney married Bobby was to stop all of the lesbian and bisexual rumors. Bobby married Whitney for love.
