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Bobby Brown is aware of there are a ton of memes that poke enjoyable at his relationship together with his former spouse Whitney Houston, however he’s not taken with seeing them.
“I actually don’t take a look at all the memes,” he informed CNN. “I attempt to steer clear of issues which may trouble me.”
As a substitute, Brown is specializing in therapeutic.
The previous “unhealthy boy of R&B” is sober, in remedy and excited to share his life story.
The A&E documentary “Biography: Bobby Brown” is about to air over two days, beginning on Memorial Day together with his docuseries “Bobby Brown: Each Little Step” debuting the following day.
The collection will concentrate on his household life with spouse Alicia Etheredge-Brown and their kids, Cassius, 12, Bodhi, 6, and Hendrix, 5.
Brown stated he has no trepidation about opening up his residence and life to the cameras.
“How we’re doing as a household is nice and I need folks to see that,” he stated. “Households nonetheless do undergo ups and downs, however they’re at all times completely satisfied instances that try to be happy with.”
The singer has had his share of sad instances.
He has shared he was molested as a toddler by a priest earlier than he grew to become a younger star as a member of the boy band New Version.
His later life included a high-profile battle with substance abuse and a string of arrests.
There was additionally the tumultuous marriage to Houston, which led to 2007 after extra that 14 years.
Her dying in 2012 was adopted by the dying of their solely little one, Bobbi Kristina, in 2015 and Brown’s son Bobby Brown Jr. in 2020.
The elder Brown says he has coped by unpacking all of it in remedy.
“Remedy is having the ability to discuss issues that I won’t usually discuss and simply to get all the cob webs out and provides the folks what I feel I want to provide them which is all of Bobby,” he stated.
He’s not even bothered, he stated, by the truth that so many have targeted extra on his tragedies than his triumphs as a result of “There’s been so many tragedies that it’s exhausting to concentrate on what I did appropriate.”
He does need the world to know that he and Houston cherished one another tremendously, that he’s happy with all his kids, and that he believes he’s now a greater husband and father due to all he’s been by.
Brown stated he’s additionally making new music, each as a solo artist and a member of New Version, the group he broke with a number of instances throughout his darkish days however has since reunited with for a latest profitable tour.
His message for individuals who might have counted him out?
“Don’t look away,” he stated. “I nonetheless bought extra to do.”