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In an emotional interview set to air on Monday, Brown teared
up talking about his 22-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown,
whose July death came six months after she was found face down
and unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta home.
"If I could have been here two days before, it wouldn't have
went down like that," her father said in clips released ahead of
the broadcast. The interview is scheduled to run on the talk
show "The Real" on FOX stations, as well as on the BET cable
network.
Brown's death was eerily similar to that of her Grammy-winning
mother, who drowned in a bathtub at a Beverly Hills hotel in
2012 at age 48.
Authorities have said cocaine abuse and heart disease
contributed to the death of Houston, who had battled substance
abuse. Bobbi Kristina was her only child.
In the interview, Brown said he had prayed for six months for a
better outcome but that "when God calls you, he calls you."
"I'm pretty sure her mother had a part in this, like, come on,
let's get her up here," he said, suggesting that the pair would
be together in heaven.
Conflicts among Bobbi Kristina Brown's family and her close
friends played out publicly during the months in which she was
in a medically induced coma.
A court-appointed conservator for Brown, who inherited her
mother's fortune, has filed a civil lawsuit accusing her
boyfriend, Nick Gordon, of causing her death.
A representative for Gordon could not immediately be reached for
comment. No one has been criminally charged in the case.
(Reporting by Letitia Stein in Tampa, Fla.; Editing by Susan
Heavey)
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