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 The attorney was clarifying remarks by Brown's father, singer
Bobby Brown, made at a weekend concert, that his 22-year-old
daughter was now awake.
"I can say today, Bobbi is awake. She's watching me," Brown told
concert-goers at the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie, Texas,
according to a video posted on the website TMZ.
In a statement issued on Monday, attorney Christopher Brown
said: "Doctors have indicated that she will have a long life.
However, Bobbi Kristina is presently embarking on a
rehabilitation process and the quality of her life will not be
known for years to come."
Bobby Brown's wife, Alicia Etheredge-Brown, noted in the
statement that her husband had been "in an emotional state" when
he spoke at the concert on Saturday.
"He is encouraged by the steps that Bobbi Kristina has made
since her hospitalization," she said. "She has made it out of
ICU, opened her eyes, and started a rehabilitation that will be
long and hard."
Bobby Brown added: “We thank everyone that supports Bobbi
Kristina and God is hearing our prayers.”
However, NBC News reported on Tuesday that her grandmother,
Cissy Houston, painted a grimmer picture after visiting Bobbi
Kristina Brown in the hospital.
"While she is no longer in a medically induced coma she has a
tracheotomy and according to the doctors she has global and
irreversible brain damage and remains unresponsive," she said in
a statement to NBC.
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"Meeting with the doctors and understanding that she can live in
this condition for a lifetime truly saddens me. We can only trust in
God for a miracle at this time," the statement added, according to
NBC.
Bobbi Kristina Brown was discovered on Jan. 31 face down and
unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta home. Few details
about her condition have been released since.
In March, she was transferred from Emory University Hospital in
Atlanta to a rehabilitation center, according to her family.
Her mother Whitney Houston, a six-time Grammy Award winner and
actress, drowned in a hotel bathtub in Beverly Hills, California, in
February 2012 at the age of 48. Cocaine and heart disease
contributed to her death, the authorities said.
(This is the edited version of the story with additional quotes from
Bobbi Kristina's grandmother)
(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins in Winston-Salem and Letitia Stein in
Tampa; Writing by Curtis Skinner; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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