Bobbi Kristina Brown’s death in July struck a painful blow to
the 22-year-old’s family, who is still coping with their loss.
Now,
for the first time, Brown’s aunt, Pat Houston, sat down with Kevin
Frazier on Monday's Entertainment Tonight to discuss the events
that led to Brown’s hospitalization and how the family is recovering after her
death.
As
Whitney Houston’s manager, confidante and sister-in-law, Pat was like a second
mother to Bobbi Kristina, and she says she was planning an intervention before
Bobbi Kristina was found unconscious in the bathtub at her home in Atlanta,
Georgia.
“When we really found out that
Krissy was in trouble, we were really making plans to do something about it,”
revealed Pat, who says she also wanted to send Bobbi Kristina to a rehab
facility in California, “but it came too late.”
In
a lawsuit obtained by ET, Brown’s conservator, Bedelia C. Hargrove,
alleges that Nick Gordon injected Bobbi Kristina with a “toxic
mixture”before she was found face down in the bathtub.
In
a statement to ET, Nick Gordon’s lawyers slammed the lawsuit filed against
their client, claiming it is both “slanderous and meritless.”
“Nick
has been heartbroken and destroyed over the loss of his love and it’s shameful
that such baseless allegations have been presented publicly,” the statement
reads. “Nick has engaged civil counsel and intends to defend the lawsuit
vigorously and expose it for what it is: a fictitious assault against the
person who loved Krissy most.”
Pat
always had her doubts and even filed a restraining order against Nick last
year.
However,
she admits that the restraining order didn’t have the intended effect, because
Bobbi Kristina “didn’t understand it.”
“Where the world saw that she
was angry and mad at me, she was texting me all along,” Pat said. “I really
tried to show her [that] I’m going to do this to let you know that you don’t
have to be afraid of anything. I got you.’”
“External
attraction can really cause problems,” she added, referring to the romantic
relationship between Bobbi Kristina and Nick.
Dealing
with the loss of Bobbi Kristina has been especially hard because the family
still hasn’t come to grips with her mother Whitney’s death in 2012. In 2013,
Pat and the family revisited the hotel room where Whitney died, and Pat
recalled the experience.
“When
we went into the room it was just so peaceful and calm and the room was lit –
it was like it was candle lit. It was just very, very calming,” Pat recounted.
“I went into the bathroom and I placed the flowers at the tub and I just sat
there and just was thinking, ‘What happened? How did we get Three months after
Bobbi Kristina’s death, there is still a lot Pat wishes she could tell her
niece. She opened up to Kevin about what she would have told Bobbi Kristina if
she had the opportunity to speak with her again.
“You
have to love yourself,” Pat said. “You have to call on people and not allow
someone to divide you and then conquer you.”
Pat
also responded to speculation that Bobbi Kristina’s father, singer Bobby Brown, is going to write a
memoir that would likely include stories about his ex-wife and his daughter.
“I
don’t really judge when it comes to that, you know? It could be something that
could be very healing for him,” Pat said. “You really never know what a person
is going through so if he feels that he wants to write, he’ll do it. But the
only thing is you have to be very truthful. If it’s good or bad, you have to
own it.”
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