news | March 30, 2026

Inside Whitney Houston's Relationship With Bobby Brown

The two obviously moved past their awkward meet-cute and married in July of 1992. But the ceremony wasn't reported to be a fairytale affair. In Brown's memoir, he claims he was shocked to find Houston doing drugs on their wedding day (via People). Drugs became synonymous with the couple in the tabloids but Brown denied, that he was the one to introduce them to Houston. He admits, "I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn't the one that got Whitney on drugs at all. It's just unexplainable how one could, you know, [claim that I] got her addicted to drugs." Adding, "I think we got married for all the wrong reasons. Now I realize Whitney had a different agenda than I did" (per Mirror).

The pair became a party of three when their daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was born a year after their wedding. Unfortunately, it has been reported that she was a witness of her parents' troubled union. In a later interview with Oprah Winfrey, Houston admitted, "He spit on me. He actually spit on me. And my daughter was coming down the stairs and she saw that" (via Express).