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But despite her parents' fame and fortune, Bobbi Kristina’s home life was challenging; both of her parents struggled with drug addiction, went through a difficult divorce in 2007, and Whitney died suddenly in 2012.
On Jan. 31, 2015, Bobbi Kristina wasfound unresponsivein a bathtub in the Georgia home she shared with exNick Gordon– an eerie parallel tothe way her mother had died several years earlier. Shepassed awayin hospice on July 26, 2015.
Here’s everything to know about Bobbi Kristina Brown.
She has six half-siblings through her father and several famous relatives through her mother
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In addition to her parents, Bobbi Kristina had several other notable relatives. Her maternal grandmother was two-time Grammy Award winnerCissy Houstonof The Drinkard Singers — while her mother’s cousins were music greatsDee Dee Warwick,Dionne Warwickand Leontyne Price. Her mom’s half-brother was former NBA player Garly Garland, Bobbi Kristina’s uncle.
Gospel singer CeCe Winans was Bobbi Kristina’s godmother, and her godfather was music executiveClive Davis— the music executive who discovered Whitney and fostered her career.
She’s featured on a couple of Whitney’s recorded songs
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Bobbi Kristina can be heard in the beginning of the 1998 single"My Love Is Your Love"off Whitney’s album of the same name. During the first verse, she tells her mother, “Sing, mommy,” and at the end of the track, she says, “Clap your hands!”
A few years later, Bobbi Kristina was featured on her mom’s 2003 seasonal record,One Wish: The Holiday Album. The then-10-year-old can be heard on the track “Little Drummer Boy.”
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She was one of Whitney’s ‘greatest inspirations’
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Whitney took parenting very seriously. “Being a mother…you kind of stop living for yourself and you start living for your children,” the singer said in a 1995 interview. “Everything that I do, everything that I think, everything that I say, Bobbi Kristina is on my mind.”
She often shared advice with Bobbi Kristina — and above all, wanted to instill truth in her daughter. “Be true to yourself,” she said was the advice she gave. “You can fool people, you can fool anybody any time of the day, but you can’t fool yourself.”
And the two admired each other equally. “My daughter is my greatest inspiration,” Whitney said in one of her final interviews. “My greatest, my greatest.”
She announced she had married Nick Gordon
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With grandmother Cissy’s blessing, Bobbi Kristinareportedly wedlongtime friendNick Gordonin secret in January 2014. The coupling raised eyebrows among friends and family; Whitney had raised Gordon like a son, although she never officially adopted him.
Their relationship sparked further controversy when a laywer for Bobbi Kristina’s father saidthe union had never happened, despite Bobbi Kristina having referred to Nick as an “incredible husband” after announcing their union. Brown’s lawyer refuted the marriage took place, three days after Gordon and a friend found Bobbi Kristina unconscious in a bathtub at her Roswell, Georgia, home.
Furthermore, Gordon wasfound liablein her wrongful death case andordered to pay $36 million to Bobbi Kristina’s estatein September 2017. Three years later,he diedof anaccidental heroin overdose.
She died of drowning and drug intoxication
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The Fulton County Medical Examiner revealed that Bobbi Kristina died from a combination ofdrowning and drug intoxicationon July 26, 2015 at age 22 years old. A toxicology report found marijuana, alcohol, “a cocaine-related substance,” sedative and anti-anxiety medications and morphine in her system.
Bobbi Kristina’s death came after she wasfound unresponsivein her bathtub on Jan. 21, 2015. In the months that followed, she spent time in a rehabilitation center and hospice care until she passed away that July.
“The underlying cause of death is the condition which starts the downhill course of events leading to death and in this case is the immersion associated with drug intoxication,” the medical examiner’s office said in the statement at the time. “The pneumonia and encephalopathy are more immediate causes which resulted from the immersion and drug intoxication.”
She was the subject of a film after her death
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source: people.com
