BOBBY Brown has revealed the heartbreaking last message he received from daughter Bobbi Kristina before she drowned in a drug-fueled bath accident.
The R&B singer recalled how the pair’s relationship became distant after her mother Whitney Houston’s death – and felt he was prevented from seeing his then-teenage daughter.
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Finally they got back in touch and began to mend their relationship – with Bobbi Kristina even planning to travel to California to see her dad and brother, Bobby says in a new A & E documentary Biography: Bobby Brown.
Tragically the trip never happened as one day before she was due to fly out to LA, she was found unresponsive in the bath at her home in Duluth, Georgia.
In one heartbreaking final video message played on the documentary, Bobbi Kristina giggles as she says: “I love you dad – so much – we’re gonna send these all the time – it’s gonna be fun.
“Oh my gosh. I can’t wait to see you dad, I’m so excited. Oh My God. Aaah! I love you.”
Sadly Bobbi Kristina never came out of a coma after being found on January 31, 2015 and died in hospice care months later on July 26.
Bobby told how he felt like he was “pulled apart” from his daughter in the years after Whitney’s death.
The New Edition singer said he didn’t even see Bobbi Kristina at the singer’s funeral – as he claims he was “disrespected” by the Houstons.
“Whitney’s funeral was so disappointing…one minute they told us to sit at a certain place and the next minute they told us that we could not be there,” he says in an emotional interview.
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“They said you and your ‘entourage’ have to move. They called my kids ‘entourage’ and to me that was extremely disrespectful.
“I didn’t get a chance to see my daughter or pay my respects to Whitney…I kissed the casket and I left.”
Bobby Brown
“I didn’t get a chance to see my daughter or pay my respects to Whitney.
“I didn’t get a chance to pay respects to her mother and brothers. I kissed the casket and I left.
“I left me and my kids. I was very uncomfortable. My kids were really hurt and disappointed that they treated not just them but their father like that. We were hurt.”
Bobbi Kristina did not attend her father’s wedding to his current wife Alicia Etheridge in 2012 and Bobby said he struggled to even get hold of her to check if she was ok.
BLAME GAME
He told documentary makers he blamed the Houston family for not looking after Bobbi Kristina and for getting in the way of his relationship with her
“The Houstons having her do television shows and having her on film when she shouldn’t have been on nobody’s television,” Bobby said.
“She was still grieving and she hadn’t gotten a chance to spend no time with me before the show.
“I hated Being The Houstons or whatever that show was. I really hated that show – it tore me and my daughter apart.”
They finally started to mend their relationship before her death.
BACK IN TOUCH
Bobby said: “After me calling all around for her, eventually Bobbi Kristina and myself got in touch with each other and started getting close again, through talking on phone and sending each other messages…
“She was really excited about [coming to California] and looking forward to coming out and living with us for a while.
“She was supposed to get on the flight the next day.”
Later that day, Bobby was “napping” at home when a family member called his wife Alicia and she broke the news that Bobbi Kristina had been in an accident.
“She just had someone ugly in her life that didn’t deserve to be in her life.”
Bobby Brown
Crying Bobby said: “‘My daughter was found in the bath tub… the same scenario as her mother.
“And it is kind of weird because you know I could point fingers at so many different people that were there. That were supposedly looking out for her and taking care of her.”
He added, “She just had someone ugly in her life that didn’t deserve to be in her life,” seemingly referring to her boyfriend Nick Gordon.
HEARTBREAKING DECISION
After being in a coma for months, Bobby said he decided to pull the plug on his daughter’s Bobbi Kristina’s life support machine – after Whitney came to him in a dream and told him to “let my baby go”.
Bobby said: “She fought hard. They told me she would not live a normal life.
“I was prepared to care for her for the rest of my life, being a vegetable.
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“But my daughter would not like to live like that. She would not want to be like that.
“Also Whitney came to me in dreams and was like ‘let my baby go!’. And that is what I had to do.”
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