Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, has died aged just 22.
Kristen Foster, a family representative, told Entertainment Tonight that Bobbi was ‘surrounded by her family’ at the time of her death and that: ‘She is finally at peace in the arms of God. We want to again thank everyone for their tremendous amount of love and support during these past few months
She had previously been in a medically-induced coma for seven months, after being found face-down and unresponsive in a bath-tub by Nick Gordon, her boyfriend (they called each other husband and wife) on 31 February of this year.
Medics arrived at the house Bobbi and Nick shared in Georgia, and found there was a lack of pulse and Bobbi was barely breathing, so she was taken to a hospital to be put on a ventilator, then taken to another hospital to be put into a coma.
Two months in to the coma, she was moved to a rehabilitation centre, but her condition deteriorated and, in the past month, she was moved to a hospice.
The timing of this tragedy was noted as eerily close to the three-year anniversary of her mother Whitney’s death – her body was found in a bathtub in an LA hotel suite in early February 2012.
Relatives say Bobbi will be laid to rest in Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey, right next to her mother and grandfather – who lost a battle with diabetes and heart disease in 2003.
Bobbi hadn’t had an easy life – her parents both had drug problems, there have been allegations of her father’s domestic abuse against Whitney and she had been the focus of much tabloid attention, appearing on reality TV in her father’s show *Being Bobby Brown *as a child.
She became closer to her mother after her parents’ 2006 divorce, and was rushed to hospital after news of her mother’s death left her hysterical. She was then treated for severe stress and anxiety. She later inherited all of her mother’s $115m fortune and went on to do her own reality show, Houstons: On Our Own.
It’s said that Bobbi had wanted to follow in her mother’s footsteps in the music industry, but regardless of what she was going to go on to do, there’s so much potential in a 22-year-old. She had a lot of life to live, but dismally, that’s no longer. RIP.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.