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Bobby Brown’s ‘body started shutting down’ when alcohol battle was at its worst
Bobby Brown has opened up about his tough battle with alcohol which became so bad he began to become dependent on it to get through day to day life.
The singer spoke to Red Table Talk, in an exclusive look at the episode in PEOPLE, about the effects of alcoholism on his health, recalling how his body ‘started shutting down because I was drinking that much’.
He told host Jada Pinkett Smith: ‘My body just was giving out on me. Even with alcohol I got to the point where I needed it.
‘I wasn’t getting drunk anymore. I wasn’t getting a little tipsy anymore. I needed it to wake up. I needed it to stop the shakes, to function on a day-to-day basis. For me, it wasn’t recreational.’
The 52-year-old’s ex-wife Whitney Houston also struggled with addiction. She died aged 48 in 2012 with a coroner at the time finding drug use had contributed to her death.
Their daughter Bobbi Kristina died in 2015 aged just 22 after suffering brain damage.
The Every Little Step star paid an emotional tribute to his daughter on the fifth anniversary of her death.
Sharing a sweet childhood photo of the aspiring actress, Bobby wrote: ‘There’s no way to explain how I feel I miss you so much little girl you stay in my heart on my mind every day daddy loves you.’
He was again left grief-stricken more recently following the death of his son Bobby Jr at the age of 28 last year.
The singer was married to Whitney, one of the best-selling artists of all time, from 1992 to 2007.
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