Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston, dies at 22
A
representative for the Houston family has said Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter
of the late entertainer Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, has
died, about six months after she was found face-down and unresponsive in a
bathtub. She was 22 years old.
Bobbi
Kristina died on Sunday at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Ga., after
she was found in the suburban Atlanta townhome she shared with Nick Gordon, the
man she called her husband, in late January. A police report described it as a
"drowning."
"Bobbi
Kristina Brown passed away July, 26 2015, surrounded by her family. She is
finally at peace in the arms of God. We want to again thank everyone for their
tremendous amount of love and support during these last few months,"
Kristen Foster, a representative for the Houston family said Sunday.
Bobbi
Kristina was born to the multiple Grammy-award winning singer in Livingston,
N.J., on March 4, 1993, eight months into her mother's rocky marriage to
the music industry bad boy.
Her
grandmother is the American soul and gospel singer Cissy Houston.
Despite
being born in the spotlight, Bobbi Kristina, who tweeted about
getting her career "off the ground" just weeks before she was hospitalized,
never attained a fraction of the stardom of her late mother.
Aside from
her family's short-lived reality TV show, The Houstons: On Our Own,
Bobbi Kristina mostly appeared in online "selfies" and paparazzi
images.
Despite the
differences in Bobbi Kristina's and Whitney's careers, there are
eerie similarities in the way the women lived and died.
While the
exact cause of Bobbi Kristina's death has yet to be
determined, Whitney was also found unresponsive in a bathtub of
water.
Both found in bathtubs
The
48-year-old I Will Always Love
You songstress was discovered in her room at the Beverly
Hilton Hotel, on Feb. 11, 2012, in the run-up to the Grammy Awards, and
later died.
Both
Whitney and her daughter lived in the constant glare of entertainment
industry attention, both struggled with drugs and both married men who
struggled with a multitude of addictions.
Despite
growing up with the pressures and problems that come with international
notoriety, Bobbi Kristina shared a special relationship with her famous mother.
"She's
always with me," said Bobbi Kristina in an interview
with Oprah shortly
after her mother's death. "Her spirit is strong, it's a strong spirit. I
feel her pass through me all the time."
Heir not apparent
As for the
future of Whitney Houston's vast recording fortunes, of which Bobby Kristina
was the sole heir, there are bound to be legal battles ahead.
Bobby Brown,
the Grammy Award winning former frontman for the R&B group New Edition, has
publicly stated that Bobbi Kristina was never legally married to
Nick Gordon.
Gordon, who
was orphaned and raised by Whitney since he was a teenager, though
not formally adopted, was at home with a friend at the house he shared
with Bobby Kristina the night she was found unresponsive.
The
25-year-old appeared on the Dr. Phil
Show in
March, where he and his mother described his struggles with alcohol and drugs.
"My
pain is horrible," Gordon told the talk show host, sobbing. "My heart
hurts. I have panic attacks."
Gordon and
his mother indicated that he was too distraught to go into detail of
the night Bobbi Kristina was found.
A police
spokesperson said that officers had been called to the home on Jan. 23 for
a report of a fight, but when officers arrived, they found no one there.
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