Singer and reality star Bobby Brown blames his "uncontrollable" drug use on his turbulent marriage to superstar Whitney Houston, and says she married him to quash rumors that she had a lesbian lover.
"I think we got married for all the wrong reasons," Brown writes in his new biography "Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But," according to the New York Post. "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."
Houston took a diplomatic stance in her response, issued to PEOPLE by her publicist: "Miss Houston is sad that Bobby feels he need to say such things but she choses to take the high road and will not speak badly about the father of her child even if it's to set the record straight."
Brown claims that his ex-wife was under pressure to disprove rumors she was having a sexual relationship with her female assistant, Robyn Crawford. "In Whitney's situation, the only solution was to get married and have kids," he said.
Houston has always denied rumors of a romantic relationship with Crawford, once telling Rolling Stone, "People want to know if there's a relationship. Our relationship is that we're friends. We've been friends since we were kids."
The couple's 15-year-marriage included lots of drug use according to Brown. He said that he had dabbled in drugs before meeting Houston, but that he stuck mostly to marijuana.
"I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney," he said. "At one point in my life, I used drugs uncontrollably. I was using everything I could get my hands on, from cocaine to heroin, weed and cooked cocaine."
Houston and Brown married in 1992 and their divorced was finalized in 2007. Houston has full custody of their daughter.
Are you fucking kidding me??? Bobby, you need to stop with the bullshit. you were getting into trouble and hooked on drugs long before Whitney came into the picture. your image was to be the bad boy of r&b (not the king, like your cracked out ex stated at an awards show a few years back). learn to take responsibility for your actions, and stop blaming others for what you have done. If anything, Whitney was with you to give herself some street cred. we all know she was a ghetto chick from jersey, who's wholesome image came from ringmaster Miss Clive Davis. So whatever image she was trying to clean up is neither here nor there. As for the lesbian rumors, those are LEGENDARY! My high school teacher who is an actress in her spare time, was also a paparazzo (long before it was the circus it is today) and she used to snap some very interesting photos of Whitney and her "good friend" Robin. not sure if Whitney still chills with her, but whatever. the lesbian rumors I'm not surprised with at all.
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