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Cissy Houston has a few words, and a few more, for Bobby Brown. In Remembering Whitney, out today, the mother of the late Whitney Houston writes that from the start she had doubted whether Brown was right for her daughter. And she thinks that Whitney might not have ended up so "deep" into drugs had they not stayed together. "I do believe her life would have turned out differently," Houston writes. "It would have been easier for her to get sober and stay sober. Instead she was with someone who, like her, wanted to party. To me, he never seemed to be a help to her in the way she needed." More:
- During a recent telephone interview, Houston said she has no contact with Brown and didn't see any reason to, not even concerning her granddaughter, Bobbi Kristina.
- Houston remembers a horrifying 2005 visit to the Atlanta home of Brown and Houston, where the walls and doors were spray-painted with "big glaring eyes and strange faces." Whitney's face had been cut out from a framed family picture, an image she found "beyond disturbing."
- Houston said she wanted the book published so the world would not believe the worst about her daughter, but she acknowledges in the book that her daughter could be "mean" and "difficult" and questions at times how well she knew her.
- Brown is portrayed as childish and impulsive, hot tempered, and jealous of his wife's success.
