Nick Gordon opens up about Bobbi Kristina’s death

Nick Gordon is speaking out two years after ex-girlfriend Bobbi Kristina Brown tragically passed and is addressing rumors that he was responsible for her death.

It was Gordon, 28, who found the 22-year-old face down in the bathtub after a night of partying and arguing and attempted to revive her in scenes that bore a chilling resemblance to the circumstances of her own mother, Whitney Houston’s passing.  

Brown’s autopsy revealed she had marijuana, alcohol, a cocaine-related substance, anxiety medication, and morphine in her system, but her manner of death has been labeled ‘undetermined’ as they can’t tell if it was intentional or accidental.

Gordon was held legally accountable for Bobbi Kristina’s death in 2015 after he didn’t show up for a court hearing in the $36million civil suit brought against him by her family.

For Bobbi Kristina, Gordon tells DailyMailTV, it was the beginning of a descent into drug use that spiraled out of control and ended in her death. For him it was the end of a relationship that has long perplexed observers.

Nick Gordon, 28, told DailyMailTV a descent into drug use that spiraled out of control that ended in Bobbi Kristina’s death

Gordon was 17 and Bobbi Kristina 14 when Whitney Houston invited him to move into their home in Georgia and told him to call her, 'mom.' He described it as 'a really, really cool relationship so I'll miss it forever'

Gordon was 17 and Bobbi Kristina 14 when Whitney Houston invited him to move into their home in Georgia and told him to call her, ‘mom.’ He described it as ‘a really, really cool relationship so I’ll miss it forever’

Nick and Bobbi Kristina's relationship soon escalated thanks to Houston, who Gordon claims  Houston wanted them to marry, telling them they should elope

Gordon claims they told others they were married because: 'We meant it in our heads. We were living as though we were married'

Nick and Bobbi Kristina’s relationship soon escalated thanks to Houston, who Gordon claims  Houston wanted them to marry, telling them they should elope

Gordon was 17 and Bobbi Kristina 14 when Houston invited him to move into their home in Georgia.

His own mother, he said, ‘wasn’t very good’ at the time. She had left the state to be with another man. He didn’t want to go with her.

He had met Bobbi Kristina at school but both dropped out to be tutored at home after he moved in to the Houston household.

Recalling Houston he said: ‘It was like two or three months after I moved in she began to ask me, “Call me mom.” 

‘We immediately clicked. From day one it was a really, really cool relationship so I’ll miss it forever.

‘It was like a mother, son relationship. It really was.’

In a bizarre twist of fate Gordon was there at the Beverly Hills Hotel back in February 2012 when Houston drowned in her bathtub. She was later found to have cocaine in her system. 

As for Bobbi Kristina she was like his ‘little wing man’ at first. Gordon described them as ‘the three musketeers.’

And while Bobby Brown was ‘busy creating his other family, his new family with his new wife,’ Gordon claimed to have taken on the role of the man of the house – their ‘protector.’

It was a role for which, in truth, he was ill equipped.

Bobbi Kristina Brown was found face down in the bathtub in her Georgia home in January 2015. An autopsy could not reveal the underlying cause of death because she spent more than seven months in a coma before she died

Bobbi Kristina Brown was found face down in the bathtub in her Georgia home in January 2015. An autopsy could not reveal the underlying cause of death because she spent more than seven months in a coma before she died

Bobbi Kristina's death bore a chilling resemblance to the circumstances of her own mother, Whitney Houston's passing (Pictured in 1999)

Gordon says after Houston died, 'everything changed' for Bobbi (pictured in 2009)

Bobbi Kristina’s death bore a chilling resemblance to the circumstances of her own mother, Whitney Houston’s passing. Gordon says after Houston died, ‘everything changed’ for Bobbi

Emotionally and financially he said he was treated, ‘like a prince,’ though today he claims that he definitely gave more than he got – a statement on which he will not elaborate.

Family members have leveled the allegation that the shift of Gordon’s relationship with Bobbi Kristina from siblings to romantic partners was motivated by money.

Throughout Houston’s life both he and Bobbi Kristina received a monthly allowance, which, after her mother’s death, Bobbi Kristina continued to pay to her then boyfriend.

But Gordon has always vehemently denied that that had anything to do with their romance.

He claimed that Houston wanted them to marry, telling them they should elope and that it was she who planted the seed of a relationship between them.

He said: ‘Screw the money. I lost two people I loved. They could have the money; it’s not even about that. Don’t get me wrong, money’s nice but it definitely doesn’t buy you happiness. Maybe temporary happiness.’

For Bobbi Kristina there was, it seems, no true happiness after her mother’s death.

Gordon said: ‘Everything changed. She would cry and you know throughout all those nights I felt I couldn’t do the same thing.

‘So it was just all this built up emotion that I didn’t get out as I’m sitting here trying to be strong for this person.’

After Houston’s death Bobbi Kristina and Gordon told the family that they were married – though they were not.

Family members have leveled the allegation that the shift of Gordon's relationship with Bobbi Kristina from siblings to romantic partners was motivated by money, but he has vehemently denied those claims

Family members have leveled the allegation that the shift of Gordon’s relationship with Bobbi Kristina from siblings to romantic partners was motivated by money, but he has vehemently denied those claims

Today Gordon claims they did so because: ‘We meant it in our heads. We were living as though we were married.’

Little did they know they were living on borrowed time. According to Gordon, Bobbi Kristina tried to commit suicide on two occasions – cutting deeply into her wrists.

She suffered two miscarriages and self-harmed and both became lost in a haze of drugs.

Asked if he regrets anything or if he believes now that the best thing for Bobbi Kristina might have been for him to leave he said: ‘If I had somebody tell me this would be a good thing for y’all to separate I would have tried that.

‘But I just know it was really just us two. Everybody knew [what was going on]. All these family members, all these family members that love and cared for her…everybody knew what was going on and they did nothing.

‘People saw her struggling and nobody did anything.’

And when it all went so catastrophically wrong, Gordon said, he knew he would be blamed ‘from the jump.’

Gordon began dating Laura Leal earlier this year 

Gordon began dating Laura Leal earlier this year 

He said: ‘I think in a case like ours you automatically look at the significant other. And that’s in every case. But then the fact that it’s Whitney Houston’s daughter amplifies it.

‘You know if there was something concrete I think I’d be in cuffs.’

Addressing the fact that Bobby Brown has come out and pointed the finger of blame squarely at him, naming Gordon as his daughter’s killer, Gordon said: ‘You know, I don’t care. He’s wrong and he knows he’s wrong. I met the guy. His daughter told him how much she loves me, how much I love her.

‘You know what I was? I was a prince and then I became a pawn, somebody just to point the finger at. Now I won’t stand for it as long as I can fight it.’

He continued: ‘I wasn’t in it for the money. I would have married her without thinking about it. There wasn’t going to be any pre-nup.’

In the months after Bobbi Kristina’s death Gordon said he had barely got by – lying on the sofa, depressed and grieving.

But he has tried to become immune from the anxiety of allegations of any guilt on his part. He said: ‘You know if I sat and worried about what this person thinks, or they’re suspicious about this I would drive myself crazy.’

He has stopped trying to think what, if anything, he might have done differently, he said.

He said: ‘The truth is, in my heart, I believe Krissy overdosed on drugs.’

And he wants both her and her mother’s spirits to be at peace and to remember the ‘beauty’ of Whitney and Bobbi Kristina who he describes as his ‘little Guardian angel.’

Today he is working as a landscaper, trying to plan for a future, he says, that contains marriage and children – maybe with Laura.

He wants his life to move on, he said, but he does not regret the day he accepted Whitney’s invitation to come live with her and her daughter.

He said: ‘I’m so happy I got to live with them and give them the little bit of happiness I could towards the end of their journey down here.

‘I’d do it all over again knowing the outcome.’ 

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