Oprah Winfrey’s show “Next Chapter” aired the highly anticipated Bobbi Kristina and Houston Family interview on the OWN network Sunday night (March 11). Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, sister-in-law & manager, Patricia Houston and brother Gary Houston sat down with the talk show mogul and shared intimate details about their life with the late and great Whitney Houston.. The also spoke on how they’re dealing with the loss, her final days and how they want her to be remembered.
In addition, the family cleared up some negative rumors surrounding the singer’s personal life and relationship with Bobby Brown. Pat Houston also hinted at how she was concerned with Whitney’s relationship with a young man (we’re guessing it’s Ray-J). Continue reading to see more excerpts & quotes from the interview.
BOBBI KRIS ON WHAT GETS HER THROUGH THIS DIFFICULT TIME:
My family. The Lord and her [Whitney]. Just hearing her all the time. That’s really it.BOBBI KRIS ON WHETHER SHE CAN LISTEN TO HER MOM’S MUSIC:
I can sing her music but to hear it right now, I can’t. I can hear her voice in spirit, talking to me, telling me, you know, ‘Keep moving baby. I’m right here. I got you.’ … She’s always with me. I can always feel it. I can always feel her with me.BOBBY KRIS ON HOW PEOPLE SHOULD REMEMBER HER MOM:
Nobody knows how much of a great, an amazing spirit she was. No one knows that. No one knows … She wasn’t only a mother, she was best friend. She was a sister, a comforter, she was, she was just, this spritit that she had which is like no matter where she went, no matter what she said to anyone, it touched everyone.ON DEALING WITH THE PRESS & PAPPARAZZI W/OUT HER:
At first it was [harder] but I’m her daughter. I gotta keep moving. I gotta carry on her legacy … I still have a voice, ya know. We’re gonna do this singing thing. We’re going to do some acting, you know some dancing … It’s a lot of pressure, but she prepared me for it. She was preparing me for this. She was preparing me for what was to come.ON WHAT BOBBI KRISTINA WANTS TO THE WORLD TO KNOW:
That literally, you know now, she literally is an angel, but everyone wanted to say that she was something that she wasn’t, this and that, I saw her hurt. I saw her cry and I held her through that. We held each other through that. We have so many people saying so many other things, but they don’t know who she really was. And I want people to know that everything people are saying about her, all that negativity, it’s garbage. That’s not my mother. That’s not who she is.——PAT HOUSTON ON WHETHER SHE HEARD FROM BOBBY BROWN AFTER THE FUNERAL:
He reached out to me a couple to me a couple of days after the funeral. He wanted to make sure that Krissy was okay. He asked if she was alright. I told him that she was and um he said, just tell her that her father called to check on her. I told her and I gave her that message.PAT HOUSTON ON WHETHER DRUGS WERE AN ISSUE BEFORE HER DEATH:
I don’t think drugs was an issue for her before her death. I don’t know what happened that day. Do you understand what I’m saying? When you are recording, and when you have a meeting with Clive, and when you have fittings, and when you have to go in to see your throat doctor…high? Absolutely not, you’d been too paranoid to do that. Leading up to, I would say no. Drinking? Having a drink? She may have. You know, she was loud sometimes, very much so.PAT’S ONE WISH FOR HER MOTHER-IN-LAW, CISSY HOUSTON:
If I could bring her back, just for her mother to have closure, that’s what I would want for her mom. For her to be able to see her daughter, because she wanted so see her so badly. And the pain that she’s feeling right now, because she didn’t make it to her…PAT ON WHETHER SHE HAS CLOSURE:
Yeah, I did. She trusted me with her life. She trusted me and it means a great deal to me. And I will miss her, but I know she’s with me.IF PAT WAS ALWAYS AFRAID OF THE DAY OF HER BEING GONE TOO SOON:
If things hadn’t changed. But things were changing, things were really changing with her — very much so. It wasn’t about substance abuse or anthing like that relative to the latter days. I was afraid for other things … [her] lifestyle more so [than other things].PAT HINTING AT WHITNEY’S DESTRUCTIVE RELATIONSHIP W/ A YOUNGER MAN:
I saw her chasing a dream — looking for love in all the wrong places. The dream that she was chasing was younger. In my opinion a young man, you know, that’s thriving and loved to be out and about. When you’re dealing with an older woman, that’s kind of at home, just basically just looking for the love and the comfort…and I just think that she was chasing something that would ultimately hurt her.PAT ON WHETHER OR NOT WHITNEY WAS LONELY.
Everyone is the family knew that Whitney was a loner. She was always longing for love.——GARY HOUSTON’S THOUGHTS ON WHITNEY AND BOBBY’S RELATIONSHIP:
I loved Bobby. Bobby was a good guy. I don’t know how good they were for one another as time went on. I wasn’t always there you know in the mist of their marriage. But you know when you get into a relationship, it’s like scissors. You get in between that, you could get cut so I stayed out of altercations with both of them. When it got hostile, you know, that kind of thing, you know, we talked. Me and Bobby had a relationship. We talked and we shared a lot of things. We talked about a lot of things.GARY ON WHAT HE MISSES MOST ABOUT HIS SISTER:
I miss singing on stage with her, doing duets with her. Looking at her when she was a young girl. Singing in the basement with the broom and the wig and high heels. And I’m down there at the banister that’s there, peeping her sing Aretha Franklin songs and songs by my mother.GARY ON THEIR MOTHER’S INSTINCT ON WHITNEY’S LIFE:
I remember my mother used to say a different times. I can’t always pinpoint the times but she said, ‘She’s not going to be with us too long.’ Mother used to say that. She mentioned that to me. ‘She’s not going to be with us for too long. She’s an angel she’s a gift.’ You know, this was that instinct she had.GARY ON THE TABLOID MAG PUBLISHING WHITNEY’S CASKET PHOTO:
I felt very violated. It was very intrusive. It was very wicked.
At the end of the interview, Gary, Patricia & Oprah gathered around a grand piano. Pat & Gary Houston sang Whitney’s song, “I Look To You” as their daughter Rayah Houston played the keys. On the last verse, Gary broke down and Oprah started to cry.
**To find out when the interview will air again and to watch more footage from the interview, visit OWN.tv.**
i’m praying for bobbi kris…..idk something aint right about pat and gary the way she explained the senerio makes no common sense she found whitney face down in the tub? how the hell did that happen? why did her schedule change all of a sudden and most importantly why didnt she answer when whitney called a manager whould always answer. i think she was killed check out this video exposing it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xH_0w5H9tM
That’s why we aren’t paid for out thoughts, but for what we know and you sound very foolish there could be a million reasons for why she missed her call, just as Kim Burrell missed her call and I believe she stated she did not find her! What interview were u listening too?
something is very strange why do bobby need to call Pat to talk with his daughter – huh – did anyone notice how Pat was standing over Oprah when she interview Bobbi like she dare Bobbi to say something. She don’t know what happen that day but you were always with Whitney. Amazing poor Bobbi
I thought I was the only one that felt a strangeness cause something definitely aint right about Pat. She was strange at the funeral and even stranger in this interview. What person walks slowly when they see someone crying outside of their love one’s room? THAT DOESN”T HAPPEN!!!!! And Whigham’s say they all know who took the pic why is Pat saying they know nothing? A lot of people will do ANYTHING for the love of money!!!
i dont know yah….i dont get why pat would take her time walking down the hallway when she say the hair lady on her knees whats that and she nonchalant told someone to call 911 did she know more????
I agree (I dont get why Pat would take her time walking down the hallway when she saw the hairstylist on her knees” I would’ve been running like a bat out of hell!!!! Sad situation all around.
Wow, Bobbi is a very strong young lady. She’s very well spoken and put together, it’s obvious she was raised correctly. God Bless her.
Yes, I pray she stays strong. It will be okay. I hope she continues her relationship with her father and brothers and sisters. Plus, I hope she doesn’t drop her father’s name. She should just add her mother’s name.
Whitney didn’t allow her to change it, and this is right. She was born when her parents were married; and from the photos posted here days before Whitney died, they seem really happy as father and daughter.
@Realist kim burell said she missed her call because she was on a flight like i said whitney was her client and as a manager to a superstar i highly doubt she would miss her call not once but twice its unbelievable plain and simp and for them not to mention bobbi kris being found in the same tub unconcious less than 24 hours before her mom was found dead in that same tub? suspicous
whitney did her sacrifice for tha industry and that was to die and giv the industry monies they can collect on her death. she knew and her family knew thats why pat didnt run she wallk to may sure it was all over…remeber pat also said that w chased a dream of a young man and that would hav been rayj…. so this is waht they do to u when yu all washed up and pumped wit drugs jus like mike….the fam knows all abou it but im sure they hurt to lose their love ones
YES, SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT WITH THAT FAMILY . PPL PRAY FOR THAT LITTLE GIRL , SHE’S DEALING WITH A LOT OF SHARK’S….I LIKE LITTLE ( Bobbi Kristina ) SHE’S A LITTLE ANGEL , AND NEEDS LOT’S OF LOVE, AND OPRAH CAN SEE SOMETHING’S WRONG ,AND MESSED UP .
3 THINGS REALLY STOOD OUT IN THIS INTERVIEW:
1. LADIES WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LACE-FRONT AND A WIG? JUST ASKING……
2. PAT MADE STACY FRANCIS SOUND LIKE SOME RANDOM OBSSESSED FAN FROM X-FACTOR FOLLOWING WHIT AND RAY-J AROUND THE CLUB! WHEN IN FACT STACY SAID HER AND WHITNEY HAD A NICE LITTLE TALK EARLIER THAT NIGHT. AND STACY HAS ALREADY BEEN IN THE BUSINESS, SHE WAS LEAD SINGER OF A GROUP CALLED EX-GIRLFRIEND IN THE 90′S. YOUTUBE THEIR VIDEO “WHY CAN’T YOU COME HOME” AND YOU’LL SEE.
3. OPRAH NEVER ASKED PAT DIRECTLY ABOUT WHERE THE SCRATCH AND BLOOD CAME FROM THAT NIGHT ON WHITNEY? I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THE FIGHT BETWEEN WHITNEY AND STACY DID BECOME A LITTLE MORE PHYSICAL THAN WHAT SHE IS SAYING!
oprah sure didnt i think she wanted to but she stopped.pat was lookn at op strange for a minute…the fam knows what happen to whitney but they will not say she was not murdered she was sacrifice…too keep that money going whidtney had no voice left did u hear her sing at kellys? she had nothing left in her it was all destroy by her drug abuse and she knew it and didnt know what to do and that note to brandy what did it say….
The interview was decent. I’m happy they kept somethings private. I’m happy they didn’t beat Bobby Brown to the grave.
Just keep Bobbi K, in your prayers. It’s not easy to lose a mother at such a young age; but others have lost their mothers at even younger age than her. I pray she will have a stronger relationship with her father. I hope other people will let them live their lives.
Just two days before Whitney pass, Concrete loop posted a photo of Bobby, Bobbi, and Whitney out for dinner. I think they should keep the relationship like that. And I hope she doesn’t drop her father’s name. Maybe, just add Houston to it. It took two of them to create her; and that’s the right thing to do. She is a young lady of legal age, she doesn’t need Pat’s approval for anything or to see her father.
God Bless the peacemakers!
with the media saying Bobbi Kristina wants to change her name to just Kristina Houston……i really don’t see a reconcilation with her and her Dad anytime soon. sad but true.
It was so much going on. Here manager buying things and getting ready for the informercial down the hall. In a 30 minute time frame she died. So sad. Watch out Bobbi the sharks are out and some of them are kin to you.
Just kept waiting for her to ask straight up what was the real relationship between she and Ray J.
lol. I was waiting on it too. Their relationship didn’t seem like a dating relationship. He did say they were just good people. However what multiplatinum, grammy award winning artist do you know that just hang with Ray J other than his sister just for the hell of it. #IDK
Sounds like the animosity between Bobby Brown and the family is overrated. Bobby needs to work out his issues with his daughter and be there for her. My brother didn’t think my husband was good enough for me, and it took my mother years to come to terms with my choice. We could have let the ruin our marriage, but we let it make our marriage stronger. This is a lesson to keep your family out of your marriage, a tragic one at that, because I believed that Bobby and Whitney truly loved each other.
I totally agree and see your point in everything you said.
That lttle girl is strong as stone or medicated with something to take the edge off. I pray that God continues to put a hedge of protection around her. She may want to change her name but she cant change her DNA. She will always be Bobby’s daughter. I am glad that Pat and Gary didnt speak ill of Bobby.
Bobbi seems so strong because she has something better than drugs, faith. I agree, the media makes it seem like the family hates Bobby Brown or something. Glad they didn’t bad mouth him.
Wow I cant believe the family shared so much intimate details about whitney’s life. There are some things that should just be kept private.
I thought the interview was good and it was sad to see Whitney’s brother breakdown when he was singing.
Wow, there def some pieces missing, everyone seemed slightly rigid or nervous esp her daughter, she must going through ALOT. I pray that God keeps her and reveals the truth to her so that she can be protected.
This may sound really mean, I know she wants to sing, dance and act but I wouldn’t be slightly interested in it unless she was fully in control of her career. There is just too much negativity out there. I would hate to see her end up similar to her mother, that would really be heartbreaking. Best Wishes to the ENTIRE family including Bobbi Brown. May the truth be revealed.
Let the woman rest in peace, already! Whitney Houston has died and THAT IS ALL!!! Enough, people!
Thank you all the comments about her family hiding stuff or acting like her sister-in-law did something to her is crazy, how the hell would you act if you sister died? Don’t be ignorant! The woman is gone and nothing can bring her back, wait for the results and move on…except like her daughter has said
Let’s keep the Family in PRAYER especially Bobbi Kris she will be OK I pray. It seem like she has some foundation and she is very intelligent according to this interview. This is the 1st time I ever heard her really speak but you can tell she been thru a-lot b4 her mom passed I can see that. I wish the family and this young lady well. And I will be supporting her in the future 4 sure. RIP NIPPY WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!!! OUR LOVE IS YOUR LOVE REST IN THE HAND OF GOD.
Something doesn’t seem right. Danny Bonnoduci ( sp ) from the partrage family fame said something that I too was wondering; Why would it take weeks to determined the cause of death. I don’t believe in that Luminitie mess, but something just doesn’t seem right.