A new Tell all book is claiming Bobbi Kristina 'was addicted to drugs at 14?
Bobbi Kristina, the ill-fated daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was a drug addict by the time she was 14 years old according to an explosive new book which reveals shocking new details about the short lives of the singing superstar and her only child.
Whitney & Bobbi Kristina: The Deadly Price of Fame, written by Ian Halperin, portrays Bobbi Kristina as a wild child who never stood a chance growing up in an environment where her own mother was too consumed by her own drug demons and sexuality issues to be a functioning parent.
The book emerges just six months after a drug overdose left Bobbi Kristina, 22, in a coma from which doctors have said she is unlikely to ever regain consciousness.
According to Halperin, Bobbi Kristina was just 12 years old when she first accompanied her mother to rehab in Antigua in 2005.
Not long afterwards the troubled teen started needing her own stints in recovery wards.
Even before she was 15, Bobbi Kristina had already been committed to a psychiatric hospital for observation after trying to stab her mother before slashing at her own wrists, a relative told the author.
In seeking to find an explanation for mom Whitney's addiction problems, Halperin revisits the often repeated speculation that the singer may have been a lesbian who chose to deny her true sexuality.
Before Whitney's marriage to Bobby Brown her closest confidante was Robyn Crawford, who she had met as a teenager in East Orange, N.J.
The pair lived together during the early years of Whitney's career and continued to share a hotel room when the superstar toured.
Houston always adamantly denied she was a lesbian, but husband Bobby even expressed his own doubts in his memoir.
'The media was accusing her of having a bisexual relationship with her assistant,' he wrote. 'In Whitney's situation, the only solution was to get married and have kids.'
Crawford, who is openly gay, resigned from the superstar's production company in 2000.
Whitney and Bobby eventually split after 15 years of marriage in April 2007 and as the singer attempted to relaunch her musical career, her daughter continued to spiral out of control.
'A 17-year-old Bobbi Kristina was left to her own devices in Atlanta, where she had taken up with a hard-partying crowd, including the boy who had moved into her house three years earlier, Nick Gordon,' writes Halperin.
Not long after photos were made public of Bobbi Kristina snorting coke at two separate parties - her mother's response was to cancel her daughter's 18th birthday extravaganza and packed her off again to rehab.
After Whitney’s death, Bobbi Kristina became more and more dependant on Gordon and the pair allegedly immersed themselves in the drug scene in Atlanta where they lived.
'The crowd she hung out with was out of control,' a friend of Bobbi Kristina's told Halperin. 'The past couple of years she hung with a bunch of crazies, they were wild and reckless.'
Halperin, whose previous works include Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson and Who Killed Kurt Cobain? also speculates in his book about the final hours leading up to Bobbi's overdose earlier this year.
On January 31, Bobbi Kristina - only 22 - was discovered facedown in a tub of cold water just days before the third anniversary of her mother's very similar death. Gordon claims that he administered CPR.
There has been much specualtion that Bobbi Kristina had attempted suicide, but Halperin believes that she could have been subjected to what drug users call 'the plunge.'
The practice involves plunging an overdose victim into cold water while administering slaps to try and revive them.
'She probably took the plunge,' one local drug addict told him.
This could explain the 'facial bruises that paramedics reportedly found,' wrote Halperin.
Although Bobbi Kristina has been taken out of a medically induced coma she remains unresponsive, and family sources have indicted she has irreversible brain damage.
'Only the toxicology report — or in the worst-case scenario, an autopsy — can definitively answer the question about which, if any, drugs Bobbi Kristina had in her body at the time she was found,' Halperin writes.
'It's possible that authorities will unveil new evidence that discredits the cold-water bath theory completely. It's also possible that we may never know what happened.'
Whitney & Bobbi Kristina: The Deadly Price of Fame will be published June 9 by Gallery Books.
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