Live on October 11, , in Los Angeles, California. An aspiring singer, Bobbi Kristina had begun working on songs in the studio with her mother by late Unfortunately, their time together was cut short when Houston was found unresponsive in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel on February 11, , and pronounced dead on the scene. She was She humbles me. I remember what she told me, I remember what she taught me. Causing further controversy within the extended family, Bobbi Kristina had begun seeing Gordon romantically, announcing their engagement in October Though allegations of physical and mental abuse would later surface, Bobbi Kristina announced she and Gordon had wed in early Alive but unresponsive, doctors placed her in an induced coma.
She died in hospice care on July 26 at age The singers' year marriage withstood hard-partying, allegations of physical abuse and infidelity.
Image source, AP. Bobbi Kristina duetted with her late mother, alongside whom she is buried. Related Topics. Whitney Houston Music. Published 3 August Published 1 August Published 27 July Published 25 June The platinum-selling singer and actress had been in possession of one of the all-time great voices, but her career wasn't close to what it was at her peak and years of substance abuse had tarnished those once-gleaming pipes.
She had survived a lot, including a tumultuous marriage and a highly public divorce, but still, her family worried about her. And yet she was still Whitney freakin' Houston , a beloved entertainer who was due that night to attend Clive Davis ' annual pre-Grammys bash at the Beverly Hilton.
Instead, she died in a room upstairs, accidentally drowning in the bathtub. Losing an artist like that, an icon who breathed so much life into every note, who gave so much of herself with every performance, was an unequivocal tragedy. She was When her only daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown , died three years later at the age of 22, there couldn't have been a more heartbreaking coda to Houston's story.
And while the similarities in the circumstances of their deaths instantly registered as eerie, Bobbi Kristina never regaining consciousness after she too was discovered submerged in a bathtub full of water, the sad parallels between their experiences only became more potently felt as more information was revealed about their lives—and their deaths.
Over the course of her year marriage to Bobby Brown , the last two of which occurred in the perception-skewing shadow of their at-times surreal reality show Being Bobby Brown , it became harder to discern who led whom down what road. The world had pretty much assumed that Houston's decline was her husband's fault, but she actually used drugs before she was with Bobby, even at the height of her success.
It turned out that they had walked down that road together , hand in hand. But regardless of where they ended up, Brown and Houston were longtime sweethearts, first meeting in and marrying in Houston, however, would later describe herself as "what you call a functioning junkie. Still, though cocaine was cited as a contributing factor to her death by drowning, Brown rejected the notion that drugs killed her.
Asked what he thought did hasten her death, the New Edition singer replied, "Just being brokenhearted. Scheduled to attend longtime friend Davis' party on Feb. The L. County coroner's office later noted in its postmortem findings that a "white crystal like substance" was found in the room, along with an open bottle of champagne, food and other personal items. An autopsy determined the official cause of death to be accidental drowning, with atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use "just probably immediately prior" to drowning listed as contributing factors.
Toxicology screens turned up traces of Benadryl, Xanax, traces of marijuana and Flexeril, a muscle relaxant, in her system.
Bobbi Kristina was 18 when Houston died, and was briefly hospitalized late that night after mixing wine and Xanax in a fit of despair. She, too, was an aspiring singer, born to a showbiz family as Houston was and trying to make it in the shadow of her mother's enormous talent. Instead, she ended up robbed of the seven-time Grammy winner's support and guidance.
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