Bobby Brown Says He Thinks Nick Gordon Was Responsible for Bobby Kristina's and Whitney Houston's Deaths
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Looking back on Bobby Brown in his late ’80s commercial heyday—the Gumby ‘do, energy zapping out of his pores, the snarled bravado—it’s hard to fathom the turns his life has taken to make him such a tragic figure. But grieving has defined the most recent chapter of Brown’s public life—his ex-wife Whitney Houston died in 2012; his daughter Bobby-Kristina Brown in 2015; and most recently, in 2020, his son Bobby Brown Jr. died after overdosing on fentanyl, cocaine, and alcohol.
And so, the women of Red Table Talk had a lot to work with when Brown joined their chorus of affirmation for an episode that premiered Wednesday. Brown told Jada Pinkett Smith, her daughter, Willow, and her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, that his son’s death “hit me very hard” and that “I admired him as a young man.” He sought to clarify misconceptions the public may have after Bobby Brown Jr.’s overdose.
“Let me make it clear, he wasn’t a user,” said Brown. “He would experiment with different things. It wasn’t like he was dependent on drugs like when I was in my situation. I depended. I needed it. He was a young man that tried the wrong stuff, and it took him out of here.” Brown blamed himself in part: “I’ve been through my time and I know that my time played a part in my son feeling he could test something… And I feel guilty about that.”