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I could have saved her: Bobby Brown’s tearful first interview

Bobby Brown believes things would have turned out differently for his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown if he had been with her days before she was found unresponsive in her home in Atlanta. Speaking publicly for the first time since Bobbi Kristina’s death in July, the singer says: “If I could have been there two days before, it wouldn’t have went down like that." In the TV appearance on Fox’s talk show The Real, which airs today, Brown becomes emotional several times while sitting next to his wife, Alicia Etheredge. Bobbi Kristina, the only daughter between Brown and the late Whitney Houston, died in a hospice in July.

We prayed and hoped for six months, you know, for something better to happen. But when God calls you, he calls you.

Bobby Brown

Bobbi Kristina was the only daughter between Brown and the late Whitney Houston. Brown says he thinks Houston was ready for their daughter to be with the singer "in heaven”. Brown adds: “I’m pretty sure her mother was… had a part with like, ‘Come on, let’s get her up here’. She was not comfortable by herself, I guess. She just called my daughter with her." The 22-year-old suffered irreversible brain damage after being found face-down in a bathtub in her Georgia home in January. Authorities found prescription drugs in the suite and evidence of heart disease and cocaine in her body but determined her death was an accidental drowning.