Posted on 02/18/2012 4:25:28 PM PST by tobyhill
Singer Bobby Brown made a brief and dramatic appearance at ex-wife Whitney Houston's memorial service on Saturday, leaving abruptly after being told that his entourage couldn't sit together, police sources told CNN.
He arrived with several people and was apparently emotionally distraught, with red eyes and head hanging as he walked up the aisle of the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. He approached Houston's casket, passed it and went back down the aisle.
On CNN's live video feed, Brown was shown standing out front of the church soon after the service began. He was not seated with family, friends or other celebrities at the front of the church.
"My children and I were invited to the funeral of my ex-wife Whitney Houston," Brown later said in a statement. "We were seated by security and then subsequently asked to move on three separate occasions. I fail to understand why security treated my family this way and continued to ask us and no one else to move. Security then prevented me from attempting to see my daughter Bobbi Kristina.
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That would be Bobby McFerrin.
25 years on people will remember where they were when they learned of Whitney’s passing, just like our grandparents remembered where they were when they learned of JFK’s death.
Oh no you din’t.
Yeah, but he did sing “Cool it Now”.
(Man it sucks I know that)
In defense of Bobby Brown
By: Me
Having been no real fan of either Bobby Brown or Whitney Houston (they both made decent music, but that’s it), I have been experiencing my normal state of frustration at America’s faux indignation at the latest so called ‘tragedy’.
What should be a time for self reflection has once again transformed into a mass-media spectacle. In the US of A, we have no official royalty, so royalty is created for us by a fawning media and people seeking to immunize themselves to the reality and consequence of real life.
In several interviews and media reports of the time Houston was said (and admitted) to having her own ‘issues’ prior to the ‘onset’ of Bobby Brown - a then 18 man who she herself pursued.
A quick search will reveal that Brown was notorious for his on and off-stage antics and so it should come as no shock that as ‘American Royalty’ he played and lived fully up to his image.
When Brown AND Houston paraded around the world with their respective ‘posses’ at their height, they were feted and celebrated FOR those ‘posses’. It was a status symbol of their great and mighty ‘celebrity’. Why is it that now, when the media is looking to create a villian to blame for the fairy tale downfall of their created Cinderella, that the ‘posee’ is now suddenly a bad thing? Why is it that Brown has gone from Prince Valiant to ‘Prince Valium’?
He is what he always was. And so was Houston. Too bad it happened, but our disgust should be aimed at the media that promoted the whole scenario to begin with. Nor Brown, or even Houston.
Because in a couple months, the whole process will just repeat...and millions among us will once again play Charlie Brown to Lucy’s football. We just don’t profit from it.
huummmmm....... I hope you are making a joke because I have already forgotten where I was when I heard the news about Whitney’s death.
Great post.
It’s been less than a week and I can’t remember where I was when I heard the news.
I’m sure most people there were parasites who stood by and essentially watched her kill herself. They all should’ve been moved outside the church.
Yes, that is a good post. I felt bad for Bobby, believe it or not. Don’t understand why he wasn’t going to be able to sit with his own daughter.
Talk about a shunning.
I don't even remember what day of the week it was when she died...can't say I have ever heard her sing, either...
he was told he could bring two people and showed up woth his possee, a dirtbag makes thid kind of move.
You realize that even on FreeRepublic a bunch of posters took this crap seriously?
What I know about Whitney H and Bobby B could be written on a sunflower seed.
I don’t know if he even had a “relationship” with his daughter.
If he did, then he was shunned. If he didn’t, then it was the breaks of the game. But I can’t help but wonder...if the daughter truly wanted him there...he would have been.
You were actually watching that ?
Why?
Wow. How embarrassing for you.
Revolting cat always posts satirical comments. It was funny.
Pardon me for not agreeing.
Yah. I can understand the dif between the devil you know...
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