Writing Upcoming Memoir Was ‘Therapeutic’ for Bobby Brown After Daughter’s Death

by Jon San

Not even three months after the death of his daughter Bobbi Kristina, singer Bobby Brown has announced he’ll be releasing a tell-all memoir.

Predictably, it’s titled My Prerogative, after his hit 1988 song and will dig into Brown’s tumultuous relationship with his ex-wife, the late Whitney Houston. He signed on to write the memoir around the time of Bobbi Kristina’s death and commented on the process in a statement, saying: “I was surprised by how therapeutic it was to work on this project, to look at the entire arc of my life and to realize that although there has been considerable pain, I have also been incredibly blessed.”

Bobby Brown's My Prerogative has been described by the publisher as "raw and unvarnished." (photo: KABC)

The publisher behind My Prerogative, Dey Street Books, described it as “raw and unvarnished” and Brown went so far as to call it a “trip into the crazy, exciting, fascinating world of Bobby Brown.”

While the singer has been a figure in music for over three decades, beginning with his boy band New Edition, recent tragedies have stolen the spotlight.

In 2012, on the night before the Grammys, his ex-wife Whitney Houston, was found dead in a bathtub in Beverly Hills. Three years later their daughter Bobbi Kristina was found unresponsive in an eerily similar situation, also in a bathtub.

In 2013, Whitney Houston’s mother Cissy released her own book called Remembering Whitney, which blamed Bobby Brown for her daughter’s drug abuse. Dey Street Books did not disclose how much Bobby Brown was paid for My Prerogative, but it is scheduled for release next June.

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