Bobby opens his heart on cocaine addiction
View(s):Bobby Brown is getting candid about addiction during his marriage to Whitney Houston. In the second half of popular TV programme ‘A&E’s Biography: Bobby Brown’, which aired Tuesday night, the singer talked about being addicted to crack, heroin, cocaine and alcohol before finally getting sober. He also shared the “big misconception” about his marriage to Houston.
Brown, 53, was depicted in the press as the “bad boy” during his relationship with Houston and blamed for her drug spiral. However, he said the “Greatest Love of All” singer with the angelic voice was the more experienced drug user when they got together, which he came to find out on their 1992 wedding day.
On the day of their wedding, the New Edition alum was “scared to death” and locked him in a bathroom, where he was “drinking, smoking, sniffing” cocaine, he recalled candidly. It was his now-wife and then-friend, Alicia Etheredge, who actually helped him overcome his jitters — talking him out of the bathroom.
When he did come out and felt ready to wed, he saw his bride-to-be for the first time and she was “doing a line of coke.” While he called it a “shocker” to see her “sniff for the first time,” amid his wedding day nerves — and worrying about whether he was doing the right thing — it made him feel like he “had more in common” with Houston than he thought.
However, “I was new to [using cocaine] and she, I guess, had been doing it for a while,” he said.
Brown said when he and Houston weren’t getting high, things were great. Brown admitted that in addition to cocaine, he was smoking heroin and crack, the latter of which he would mix with marijuana.
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