Bobby Brown Speaks

Now that Whitney Houston’s mother, daughter, brother, sister and law, other family members and close friends have all broken their media silence, it is now time for Bobby Brown and his family tell their story.

Bobby Brown’s highly anticipated interview with Matt Lauer will air Wednesday morning on CBS’ The Today Show, and Bobby will talk about his sobriety, the last time he saw Whitney, his relationship with daughter Bobbi Kristina and all the rumors about his personal life.

Three of Bobby’s children and his fiancée also appear in the interview

According to TODAY, Bobby spoke about the last time he saw his wife of 15 years, saying:

“She had this glow about her that was just, you know, incredible. I’m saying to myself, you know, ‘She must be … she must be doing really well,’ because she looked really well…[she] looked like she was in a good place.”

When asked about Whitney’s cocaine use being the cause of her death, the R&B singer answered: 

“I was hurt. I was hurt … because, you know, me being off of narcotics for the last seven years, I felt that she was, you know, I didn’t know she was struggling with it still. But at the same time, you know, listen, it’s a hard fight.  It’s a hard fight to, you know, maintain sobriety that way.”

Based on his own feelings and how she appeared when he last saw her, Brown theorizes that that one day of cocaine use — not the effects of longterm use — was enough to kill Houston. “It had to be that one, because that’s all it takes,” Brown said. “One hit, you know … it could definitely take your life away from you. And, unfortunately, that was it.”

Lauer then pressed the 43-year-old New Edition star to talk about the backlash their relationship underwent after Whitney’s death, to which he answered:

“If I heard it once, I heard it a hundred times, and I know you heard it too,” Lauer said. “Fans, people who say they were close to Whitney, say her life went downhill when she met Bobby Brown. How does it make you feel when you hear it?”

“It makes me feel terrible,” Brown said. “But you know, I know differently. I think if anyone ever knew us, if anybody ever spent time around us instead of time lookin’ through the bubble, they would know how we felt about each other. They would know how happy we were together.”

Bobbie also denies rumors of him being responsible for getting Houston hooked on drugs.

“I didn’t get high [on narcotics] before I met Whitney,” Brown said. “I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn’t the one that got Whitney on drugs at all.” He says drugs were a part of the singer’s life “way before” they got together.

“It’s just … it’s just unexplainable how one could, you know, [say that I] got her addicted to drugs. I’m not the reason she’s gone,” Brown said.

The interview will air in two parts this Wednesday and Thursday. 

SOURCE: Today Entertainment