Bobbi Kristina
Brown, Whitney Houston's only child, spent her mother's last day in her arms,
the 19-year-old in her first interview since Houston was found dead in her
hotel room on Feb. 11.
The night before
Houston died, her daughter with ex-husband, singer Bobby Brown asked her mother
to sleep with her as she often did.
"Sometimes
she'd come in my room, she'd lay down with me," Bobbi Kristina told
Winfrey. "On the last day, it was so early. I went to go get her. I said,
'Mom, will you just come lay down with me?' She stayed with me all day. I slept
in her arms all day. All night long."
Bobbi Kristina
appeared stronger, more confident and mature than one would expect of a
teenager and only child who just lost her mother. Bobbi Kristina spoke to
Winfrey at the Atlanta home of her uncle and aunt, Houston's older brother,
Gary, and wife, Patricia, who was Houston's manager and confidant.
Bobbi Kristina
said support from her family and God is helping her cope with the loss. She is
also comforted by her mother, who, she said, still speaks to her.
Bobbi Kristina
said after her mother died, she initially could not stay at their family home.
"First night, I couldn't stay there. Next morning, I woke up and heard her
say, 'OK. Come home now.' I felt humbled. I felt OK ever since then I've been
fine to be in that house."
Bobbi Kristina
has had a difficult time, though, dealing with various allegations that have
been made about Houston, who had admitted to abusing drugs. Bobbi Kristina was
down the hall from her mother's Beverly Hilton Hotel room when she died.
"Everyone
wants to say she was something she wasn't," she said. "I saw her
hurt. I saw her cry. I held her through that. We held each other. Everything
people are saying about her … all that negativity is garbage," she said.
"That is not my mother. That's not who she is. In reality, I know who she
was."
Bobbi Kristina,
who has been rumored to have had her own troubles with drugs, admitted that she
was sometimes disobedient.. "I was a little rebellious," she said.
"But when it came down to it, I was always, 'Mommy, mommy, mommy.'"
Bobbi Kristina
desires to follow in her mother's footsteps. "I got to keep moving,"
she said. "I got to carry on her legacy. I still have a voice. We're going
to do the singing thing. We're going to do some acting, some dancing. It's a
lot of pressure, but she prepared me for it."
Bobbi Kristina
said she only realized the magnitude of her mother's influence when she joined
her on tours, or most poignantly, saw how the public responded to her funeral that was
streamed online.
"I just saw
her as Mom for my entire life," she said. "When we did go on tour and
the funeral and everything, I was like, 'Wow. This woman made an impact not
only on a few people, but the world.'"
Patricia
discussed her late sister-in-law's last days, including the reported heated
exchanges Houston had with "X Factor" contestant Stacy Francis at a
pre-Grammy party two nights prior to her death, and arriving to Houston's hotel
room after she died.
Houston's
brother Gary said his mother always described his sister as an angel and shared
a revelation that her daughter would not live a long life.
Bobbi Kristina,
who said it is still too hard for her to listen to her mother's music, said she
would be OK. "I can hear her voice. She's always with me," she said.
"'I've got ya.' That's all I heard."
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