An emotional Bobby Brown sat down with Robin Roberts for a revealing interview about his marriage to Whitney Houston and the untimely deaths of Houston and the pair’s only child, Bobbi Kristina.
“When you find love, you find it,” Bobby Brown told Roberts, describing his relationship with ex-wife Whitney Houston. “Or it finds you, I should say. It was so instant. We were so much like each other that it made sense.”
The 20/20 interview aired on Tuesday, June 7, ahead of the June 13 release of his memoir “Every Little Step: My Story.”
Brown and Whitney met at the 1989 Soul Train Awards and were married three years later. It was the day of the couple’s nuptials when Brown first witnessed Houston “hunched over a bureau, snorting a line of coke.” It has been widely believed that Brown introduced Houston to drugs.
“It wasn’t me who started her,” he insisted. “I take my part and I take it hard for me even being a part of it, but we all have our own minds and some of us are stronger than others.”
He added: “She wasn’t that. The drugs wasn’t her. She did drugs but drugs didn’t do her. She knew how to handle herself. It only made me love and want to protect her more.”
The couple struggled with addiction, with Brown admitting to being once hooked on heroin and cocaine. Despite the birth of their daughter, Bobbi Kristina, the couple still abused drugs. They would go on cocaine binges on one end of their mansion while Bobbi Kristina was tended to by nannies in another part of the home.
