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Bobby Brown, the R&B pop star and Whitney Houston's drug-addicted ex-husband, died three times and had to be resuscitated.
That's just one of the revelations in the autobiography he's self-publishing on May 13 with distributor Atlas Books of Ohio. "Being Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But..." is co-written with Derrick Handspike, whom I spoke to Thursday night.
On Thursday press reports touched on a few items from Brown's memoirs, but there's a lot more.
What's the incentive at this point to sell out Whitney, daughter Bobbi Kristina and even himself? As Handspike - an Atlanta hip-hop producer and author of several books - explained: "We are very wealthy from this already."
It's not completely clear how the pair has made so much from a vanity press publication, but Handspike intimated that there are "investors." "It's a joint-venture kind of thing," he said.
For her part, Whitney, says rep Nancy Seltzer, refuses to comment now and forever on the book. "She's not going to talk about the father of her child."
But starting soon, Bobby's going to be talking. His press reps are approaching all the shows and made an inquiry to Oprah. The angle is gong to be that this is Brown's way of telling his story, and that there's very little about Whitney - at least not enough for which to sue him.
"He OD's on heroin," Handspike told me. "No one knows that. He had a stroke. They said he had a heart attack but he had a stroke."
And then there are the three deaths. Brown relates that his heart stopped three times and he had to be revived with paddles.
Brown also owns up, Handspike tells me, to hitting Houston. "He considered it horse play. The reason Whitney called the police was that he laughed at her and then left. She said, 'You think you're going to just walk away from this?' Then she called the police."
In the book, much is learned about Brown that you may or may not be interested in. He "scored" with Janet Jackson. He also immediately hit it off with Whitney in a physical way.
"We also had bedroom chemistry." He isn't modest, either. "I've always been known to be a pretty good lover. The word on the street is that I’m well-endowed, if that means anything. Does it, ladies?"
More on Monday. It's worth the wait...
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