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Bobby Blames Whitney for His Drug Abuse

Posted Apr 3, 08 8:30 PM CDT in Gossip    Most Covered

(Newser) – Bobby Brown has put his latest salvo at ex-wife Whitney Houston in writing, E! reports, claiming in an upcoming book that she turned him on to cocaine and that their "doomed-from-the-very-beginning" marriage was mainly aimed to quell rumors about her sexuality. Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But... hits shelves June 1.

Houston, 44, is "sad that Bobby feels the need to say such things," a rep said today, "and will not speak badly about the father of her child even if it's to set the record straight." The oft-incarcerated Brown, 39, writes he "never used cocaine until after I met Whitney." The pair, Grammy winners both, married in 1992 and divorced last year.

Sources E! Online, TMZ

Bobby Brown, center, shares a chuckle with other former members of the group New Edition, Johnny Gill, left, and Ricky Bell in a 2007 photo   (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)
Singer Bobby Brown says ex-wife Whitney Houston fueled his appetite for cocaine and married him only to quell lesbian rumors in a book due in June.   (AP Photo/Robert E. Klein, File)
Singers Bobby Brown, left, and Whitney Houston divorced in 2007 after 15 years of often-rocky marriage.   (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
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