As a newlywed few, Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston sang about having “Something in Common” on their to start with duet in 1992.
And before his wedding ceremony to the late pop superstar on July 18, 1992, the jittery groom — who had been “drinking and smoking, sniffing” in the lavatory — found out that the two shared even extra than their scorching music careers.
“I walked in and, um, observed her undertaking a line of coke. It was a shocker to me viewing her sniff for the initially time,” he discovered in the new A&E documentary “Biography: Bobby Brown,” which premieres on Monday and Tuesday evenings. “I consider that was when I recognized that we had much more in common than I assumed. I was new to it, and I guess she experienced been undertaking it for a when.”
In the 4-part doc, the “My Prerogative” singer opens up about every thing from his tumultuous marriage with Houston and affairs with other pop divas to his sex dependancy, material abuse and the tragic deaths of his small children Bobbi Kristina and Bobby Jr.
Brown, 53, told The Post that earning the documentary was a “healing” course of action for him. “Because of the losses I have gone by and me trying to get very well with myself, it was therapeutic,” he explained. “It was my time to clear out my closet.”
The documentary traces how Brown and 4 pals in the interior-city Boston neighborhood of Roxbury shaped New Edition when they had been kids and went on to have achievements with Jackson 5-esque hits this kind of as “Candy Girl” and “Mr. Telephone Guy.”
Brown was the group’s resident undesirable boy: He bought medications even right after their breakthrough and rebelled towards their bubblegum picture — which would finally get him voted out of New Version.
“I wanted revenge,” explained Brown, who went on to turn into a solo superstar with new jack swing classics such as “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Every Little Stage.”
And in individuals times, Brown did loads of humpin’ close to. “I feel I was a sexual intercourse addict,” he reported.
In truth, in advance of Houston arrived together, Brown experienced affairs with two of the era’s other reigning pop queens: Madonna and Janet Jackson. “Did I slumber with Madonna? We didn’t do any sleeping,” he mentioned.
Describing Jackson as “the crush of my life,” Brown said, “The reason me and Janet broke off was for the reason that she could not be with a guy like myself. I’m from the jobs. I’m hood.”
But it was “love at 1st sight” for Brown when he fulfilled Houston backstage at the Soul Train Music Awards in 1989. And the lovebirds were being in lust much too.
“Me and Whitney’s sex life was really intense,” stated Brown. “It didn’t subject where we had been.”
The few even overcame Brown’s infidelity proper before they acquired married, ensuing in his son Bobby Jr., who was born just three months right before their daughter Bobbi Kristina.
“We always felt that our really like was potent ample to prevail over any impediment that was put in entrance of us,” he reported. “We would nonetheless be collectively if it wasn’t for, you know, medication. Medication just obtained the greatest of us.”
There were also troubles with Houston’s longtime assistant — and former lover — Robyn Crawford. “I did not know that Whitney’s marriage was far more than just pals until finally later on in our marriage,” said Brown in the doc.
Now, Brown regrets that Crawford ended up leaving Houston’s workforce. “Robyn was a excellent pal to Whitney,” he claimed, “and I can say that I desire Robyn was still in her lifestyle, you know, at the conclude.”
By the time he went to jail for parole violations stemming from a DUI conviction in 2000, Brown experienced graduated from cocaine, crack and weed to heroin. But he kicked his drug pattern behind bars. “I get out of jail, and I stopped accomplishing drugs, but, um, I began overindulging myself in alcohol,” he said.
But, he provides, “Whitney was continue to utilizing tough medicine,” which contributed to the pair having divorced in 2007. And immediately after Houston’s loss of life in 2012, it was their daughter Bobbi Kristina who experienced the most. In 2015, she was located unconscious in her bathtub — eerily equivalent to her mom — and, after currently being put in a medically induced coma, she died months later at just 22.
Then, in 2020, Brown’s son Bobby Jr. died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, cocaine and liquor.
Now cleanse and sober, Brown is taking pleasure in a happy spouse and children lifetime with his wife of 10 a long time, Alicia Etheredge — who is also his manager— and their 3 younger kids. In point, their life will be adopted in the A&E fact present “Bobby Brown: Every single Minor Move,” which premieres soon after the documentary on Tuesday.
But never count on a repeat of the “train wreck” that was “Being Bobby Brown.”
“I’m in a different light now, I’m in a different earth now,” he instructed The Post. “My entire world is a large amount better.”
And fresh off a reunion tour with New Edition, Brown is hoping that the documentary and truth clearly show will assistance people see him in a new gentle.
“I want them to just take away my resilience,” he explained. “I’m a human remaining that goes by way of ups and downs. And I just attempt to remain powerful. I pray a whole lot, and I operate hard at staying much better for myself — and staying far better for my family members.”
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