Bobbi Kristina Brown regularly smoked crack and marijuana and did heroin in the month before she was found last January, facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub, a friend recently testified in a court case.
The daughter of pop icon Whitney Houston died nearly six months later at age 22, never regaining consciousness from a medically induced coma. Bobbi Kristina’s death was eerily similar to the 2012 death of her mother, who famously battled drug addiction and had cocaine in her system when she was found passed out in a Beverly Hills bathroom the day before the Grammy Awards.
New details emerged Monday about how Houston’s daughter with singer Bobby Brown used and abused drugs in the weeks before she was found in the bathtub of her suburban Atlanta home, according to the Washington Post. The details come in a Sept. 24 deposition, given to a Georgia court by a friend, Danyela D. Bradley, who lived with Brown. The deposition was first obtained by radar Online.
“I had believed she had done — she smoked marijuana, she probably smoked crack often, and also did heroin,” Bradley said. She also said Bobbi Kristina smoked crack “like once or twice every two weeks,” and smoked crack or did heroin “very, very few times” in her presence.
Asked specifically about heroin, Bradley said it would make Bobbi Kristina “very sleepy, nod off, and very less talkative, kind of keep to herself.” When she would smoke crack, she wouldn’t even talk, Bradley said: “She’d just be like keeping to herself as well.”
Bradley’s testimony came in a deposition for a case filed by a man Bobbi Kristina allegedly injured in a car accident five days before she was found nonresponsive.
But Bradley’s testimony could also have a significant impact on the wrongful death suit filed by Bobbi Kristina’s conservator against her boyfriend, Nick Gordon. The conservator, Bedelia Hargrove, accuses Gordon of giving Bobbi Kristina “a toxic cocktail” the day she lost consciousness.
Hargrove has also accused Gordon of verbally and physically abusing Bobbi Kristina, as well as withdrawing funds from her accounts after her hospitalization, Us magazine reported.
Gordon, who considered himself Bobbi Kristina’s “husband,” though the two were legally married, was much more of a hard core drug user, Bradley said. Even so, she thought that Gordon and Brown had “had a very happy, loving relationship.”
Bradley, who described Bobbi Kristina as a “sister,” lived with Bobbi Kristina in her home in January. Also living there was Gordon and Bobbi Kristina’s friend Max Lomas. As the weeks went by, Bobbi Kristina became more open about her substance use.
“I guess after a few weeks she just didn’t really hide it,” Bradley said.
Martha Ross provides celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Follow her at twitter.com/marthajross.
