‘Out-of-Control’ boyfriend Nick Gordon is put ‘on suicide watch’
BOBBI KRISTINA Brown died on Sunday - six months after she was found unconscious in a bathtub.
The 22-year-old aspiring singer was rushed to hospital and placed in a medically-induced coma on January 31 after she was discovered face-down in the tub at her townhouse in Roswell, Georgia.
She was later transferred to Peachtree Christian Hospice, where her distraught family and loved ones maintained a bedside vigil and eventually said their goodbyes as her condition deteriorated.
She passed away, surrounded by her family, at the hospice on Sunday - just three years after her famous mother, singer Whitney Houston, died aged 48 in a bathtub at a hotel in Beverly Hills. According to TMZ, officials are planning to treat the death of Bobbi Kristina - who was found in the tub with bruises on her face and body, swollen lips and a missing tooth - as a murder investigation.
The first person of interest in the case will reportedly be her boyfriend, Nick Gordon.
On Sunday night, Gordon - who was banned from visiting his girlfriend by the Brown and Houston families - was said to be ‘out of control with regret and sadness’ after learning of her death.
‘Nick is on suicide watch. He keeps saying that if only [Bobbi Kristina] had heard his voice, things would have been different. She may have lived,’ an anonymous source told HollywoodLife.com.
The Houston family said in a statement that Bobbi Kristina - who was the sole heir to her late mother’s fortune, estimated to be a huge $20million - ‘is now finally at peace in the arms of God.’
In a statement via a representative, they said: ‘Bobbi Kristina Brown passed away July, 26 2015, surrounded by her family. She is finally at peace in the arms of God. We want to again thank everyone for their tremendous amount of love and support during these last few months.’
Meanwhile, Bobbi Kristina’s father, Bobby Brown, was said by a relative on his side of the family to be ‘very emotional’ about his daughter’s death - but to know ‘that [she] is in a better place now’.
Oprah Winfrey tweeted: ‘Peace at Last! #BobbiKristina’ while singer Missy Elliott wrote: ‘My heart is truly heavy. May u rest in peace with your mommy... sending prayers 2 the Brown’Houston family.’
A statement on Whitney Houston’s official Facebook page on Sunday night read: ‘It is hard to say goodbye. On Sunday, July 26, Bobbi Kristina Brown made her transition peacefully.’
‘As Bobbi Kristina would say: “The wind is behind me and the sun is in my face”.’
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown both struggled with substance abuse and divorced when their daughter was 14. Houston described their 15-year marriage as drug- and alcohol-fueled. The couple’s tempestuous relationship was chronicled in the short-lived television series, ‘Being Bobby Brown’. Bobbi Kristina was hospitalized twice with anxiety after her mother’s death. In 2012 she starred on Lifetime’s reality TV show, ‘The Houstons: On Our Own’ in which Houston’s family struggled to recover from the famous singer’s death. The same year Bobbi Kristina Brown guest-starred on ‘For Better or Worse’, a television series about a married couple. Just a few weeks before his daughter’s death, Bobby Brown welcomed a new baby girl into his family. Brown and his wife Alicia Ethridge welcomed a newborn daughter on July 9.
