Bobby Brown’s Tell-All Biography To Be Released

GH December 10, 2008, 4:00 pm

Bobby Brown

Bobby Brown, fallen R & B star and controversial ex-husband of Whitney Houston, will finally see his biography being published this week.

“Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But … “ began life as an official autobiography with Brown’s involvement, but was derailed after ‘procrastination’ from Brown’s camp. Author Derrick Handspike decided to go ahead with the book unofficially after having already put a year’s work into the project.

Excerpts from the book have been released, including details of how Usher once tried to choke Brown, and Brown’s admission of being a violent husband:

“I mean, I’m guilty of getting upset and flying off the handle a little. I was known to throw a bottle or two at a wall or something. Things that I’d regret, I would be responsible for cleaning up or having the wall repaired. What people fail to realize is that Whitney is no punk. She definitely knows how to handle and defend herself in situations that could have potentially been violent. Some of the stories in the media made me out to be like Ike Turner, when that wasn’t my character.”

He also admits that heroin abuse caused him to have a minor stroke in 2001, and that at the peak of his cocaine abuse he felt like the character Scarface:

“I had a desk like Scarface’s in my room, and I kept [cocaine] piled up on it. Every time I walked past my desk, I’d make a line of coke from one end to the other. I’d take a straw and snort a line the same way Scarface did it in the movie. You couldn’t tell me nothing. I felt like I was Tony Montana! The world was mine! I never had to look for coke; I kept it plentiful. There was times when I went on my binges and would lock myself up in a room for days at a time just getting high.”

“Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But … “ hits American shelves this week.