Whitney Houston Had Been On Drugs Before We Met - Bobby Brown

                        

Former Husband of the late music icon Whitney Houston has spoken out at last about speculations that he introduced his late ex wife to hard drugs, which eventually led to her death. Speaking in an interview with Matt Lauer, the visibly sad Bobby Brown lamented how bad he feels each time he hears people saying things he did'nt do.

'I didn't get high [on narcotics] before I met Whitney,' Brown tells The Today Show's Matt Lauer. 'I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn't the one that got Whitney on drugs at all.'
He says drugs were a part of the singer's life 'way way before' they got together. They married in 1993 and had daughter Bobbi Kristina, now 19-years-old, before divorcing in 2007.
Brown adds: 'It's just unexplainable how one could, [say that I] got her addicted to drugs. I'm not the
reason she's gone.'

In the candid sit-down interview which will air in the U.S. this Wednesday, Brown, who says he is 'very much clean and sober' from narcotics,' tells host Matt Lauer that he was 'hurt' when he heard the news of Whitney's death at just 48-years-old.
'I was hurt because me being off of narcotics for the last seven years, I felt that she was... I didn’t know she was struggling with it still,' says Brown, who looks studious in a pink sweater over a checked shirt.
'But at the same time, listen, it's a hard fight. It's a hard fight to maintain sobriety that way.'

Lauer then presses home the media speculation to the 43-year-old R&B star, saying: 'If I heard it once, I heard it a hundred times, and I know you heard it too. Fans, people who say they were close to Whitney, say her life went downhill when she met Bobby Brown. How does it make you feel when you hear it?'

'It makes me feel terrible,' Brown responds. 'But I know differently. I think if anyone ever knew us, if anybody ever spent time around us instead of time looking through the bubble, they would know how we felt about each other. They would know how happy we were together.'
Brown also recalls the last time he saw Houston - about a week before she died.
'She had this glow about her that was just incredible,' he says. 'I'm saying to myself, "She must be doing really well," because she looked really well. She looked like she was in a good place.'