More Crazy Excerpts From Bobby Brown’s New Memoir

Cornelia Rowe

ABC News aired a candid 20/20 interview with Bobby Brown last night. In it, the singer spoke about the death of his daughter Bobbi Kristina and admitted that he and his late ex-wife Whitney Houston “could have been better” parents.

Now as he prepares to release his memoir Every Little Step on June 13, he’s taken his story to US Weekly and is opening up even more about the tragic family and his tumultuous, drug-addled marriage to Houston.

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For example, after he first met the superstar at the 1989 Soul Train Awards, he asked pal Eddie Murphy – who had briefly dated Houston – about her. “She’s cool,” Murphy said. “She just smokes too much weed for me.”

Brown was stunned. “Whitney Houston was too wild for Eddie Murphy – that sure opened my eyes,” he writes in the book.

US Weekly has released several other excerpts and revelations in its new issue. Among them?

  • Brown claims that Houston had affairs with producers she worked with and other artists (such as rapper Tupac Shakur) and confirms rumors of a romantic relationship with her longtime assistant and friend, Robyn Crawford.

  • Before dating Houston, Brown says he had his own liaisons with Madonna and Janet Jackson.

  • At the age of 10, he accidentally fried chicken with cocaine (thinking the latter was flour).

    Ultimately, Brown says it was daughter Bobbi Kristina who suffered the most from her parents’ addiction and behavior. “She often saw her mother and father high, and was around the two of us when we were f—ed up,” he writes.

    That - combined with her relationship with Houston, which he says was “more like BFF’s than mother and daughter” - eventually pushed his daughter over the edge; especially after Houston fatally overdosed in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton on February 11, 2012. Her daughter tragically died in an eerily similar way on July 26th, 2015.

    Bobby Brown has currently joined other family members in filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Bobbi Kristina’s former partner Nick Gordon.

    There’s more from Every Little Step in the new US Weekly cover story, which is out today.