The 82-year-old gospel singer is disappointed Bobby chose to focus more on her late daughter and grand-daughter Bobbi Kristina, as she feels he could have shied away from making unwarranted allegations.
During the interview, Brown had taken responsibility for not being a proper parent to Bobbi, admitted to hitting Whitney and also alleged he saw her do drugs for the first time on their wedding day.
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‘Last night I saw Bobby Brown’s interview with Robin Roberts. It was disturbing. Although the interview was supposed to promote HIS autobiography, he never spoke about his parents and siblings and any issues they might have or have had that impacted and may continue to impact on ‘Every Little Step’ he takes. Instead he chose to concentrate his comments primarily on Whitney. I can’t help but wonder why,’ Cissy Houston said to PEOPLE.
‘Whether I would have chosen Bobby for my daughter’s husband is not important because the choice was not mine to make. She loved him and I believe him when he says he loved her. I only wish he had loved and respected her enough to make some of the negative statements about her and Krissi while Whitney was alive and able to respond from her perspective,’ she continued to say.
‘On the OPRAH show when Whitney said Bobby had spit in her face and Krissi had seen it, Krissi was in the audience and available to challenge anything her mother said. Bobby was alive and free to dispute what she said. He chose not to; instead he waited to speak about her when she could no longer speak for herself.
‘There is no value in my challenging all of his statements – point for point – such as his assertion that he ‘had money’ when he married Whitney or that anyone in my family said he started Nippy on drugs. No one blames Bobby for that. However, I must say that his story of seeing her do drugs for the first time on their wedding day is untrue (Donna Houston, Robyn Crawford and I were with Nippy the whole time before the ceremony), and more importantly, it forever casts a shadow over one of the most important days of her life,’ Cissy added.
‘I am deeply disappointed that this interview to promote the story of Bobby’s life seemed to be more of an exposé on Whitney’s life. My problem with Bobby has always been that he became her husband but not her helpmate or protector.
‘My prayer for Nippy and Krissi is that they will soon rest in peace. My prayer for me is that someday, somewhere beyond the horizon where we cannot see, I will be with them again . . . And Joy will come in the morning,’ she said to the publication.
Whitney died tragically in 2012 at the Beverly Hilton hotel ahead of the Grammy Awards after she was found face-down in a bathtub with about a foot of water. Bobbi Kristina, Bobby’s only child with late singer Houston, died in 2015 while in a hospice after also being found unconscious in her bathtub.
