Houston’s stormy marriage began downfall

Whitney Houston was known as much forಞ her heavenly 🔥voice as for her hellish relationship with ex-husband Bobby Brown.

She was pop music’s pure p⛦rincess, he was a singer with a bad-boy image who had spent time behind bars.

Together,﷽💮 they shocked fans with one of the stormiest marriages in modern music.

At the time of their 1992 wedding, critics worried that Brown, with his history of DUIs and arrests for failing to pay support for children from previous relationships, w🥀ould drag her down, and years later Houston would blame Brown for all her problems, including drug abuse and her unexpected public outbursts.

The couple had a daughter togetꦡher, Bobbi Kristina, in 1993.

But des♚pite their obvio😼us differences, Houston said their true personalities were not as far apart as people may have believed.

“When you love, you love. I mean, do you stop loving somebody because you have different images? You know, Bobby and I basically cꦚome from the same place,” she told Rolling Stone in 1993.

“I a꧙m not always in a sequined gown. I am nobody’s angel. I can get down and dirty. I 💖can get raunchy.”

“What’s important is that we love each other,” Brown said years later of their rocky marriage. “It doesn’t matter what people say. ꧟We’re here, and we’re gonna be together for a long time.”

It would take more than a decade, however, for the public to see Houston’s dark side —ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ especially her drug abuse.

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2010, she said by the time the film “The Preacher’s Wife” was released, “[doing drugs] was an eve🃏ryday thing . . . I would do my work, but after I did my work, for a wholಌe year or two, it was every day,” she said.

In the Winfrey interview, Houston blamed the drug abuse on her rocky marriage to Brown, which inc🌳luded a charge of domestic abuse against Brown in 1993.✱ They divorced in 2007.

Houston went to rehab twice before she would d🐼eclare herself♉ drug-free to Winfrey.

Brown, who is on tour with his group New Edition, went ahead with his performance last💙 night in Mississippi.

“I love you Whitney. The harde༒st thing for me to do is to come on this stage,” he told the crowd.