Bobby Brown wants the world to know that he "wasn't the one [who] got Whitney on drugs."
Recently, Brown sat down with NBC's Matt Lauer for a candid interview which is set to air on tomorrow's Today Show. It will be the 43-year-old singer's first sit-down since ex-wife Whitney Houston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in February.
"I'm not the reason she's gone," Brown says, alleging that Houston had discovered drugs "way before" their marriage. "I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn't the one [who] got Whitney on drugs at all."
So just who did get Whitney on drugs? Check out our list of suspects after the cut.
Dionne Warwick
Don't let this UN Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization trick you, she's a habitual pot smoker. And she just happens to be Whitney Houston's cousin.
The former Psychic Friends Network pitchwoman was pinched at Miami International Airport in 2002 with 11 spliffs. She took a plea bargain and avoided jail time, opting for a drug treatment program instead.
"To this day, I am puzzled about exactly what happened at the Miami International Airport," she said in a statement.
Bullshit, Warwick! Long-term marijuana use may cause memory loss.
Are you to guilty of triggering Whitney's downward spiral? They say weed's a "gateway" drug....
How do you sleep at night?
Chaka Khan
Khan's big hair and even bigger cocaine addiction may have rubbed off on a young and impressionable Whitney Houston.
In the late '70s, the would-be diva provided back-up vocals on Khan's "I'm Every Woman" track. Houston was only 15 years old at the time.
Throughout the years, Houston and Khan became really good friends, even traveled together.
"There was one time, me and her and Bobby were all together in a hotel, it was actually in Florida as well," Khan recently told Piers Morgan. "And we were up there getting high together -- talking crazy and having a really, really, really good laughing, and a really, really good time,"
Cough, enabler, cough.
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson often found love in the strangest places -- Lisa Marie Presley, children, a dermatology nurse. Recently, however, rumors surfaced about Jackson's relatively normal "fling" with Whitney Houston.
"They met because they were two of the biggest recording artists on the planet and mixing in the same circles," says Matt Fiddes, Jackson's friend and former British bodyguard. The year was 1991.
"Whitney practically moved in to Michael's ranch and they had a fling like any other young couple."
For Jackson, a fling typically meant climbing trees and playing hide-and-go-seek, but Fiddes claims it was very real.
"I also know this affair will end all the myths that Michael was some kind of child molester -- he was a straight man."
Sure, a straight man with an incredibly high tolerance for drugs. He spent the better party of two decades high on prescription painkillers until it finally killed him in 2010 2009.
Two years later, traces of prescription medication was found in Whitney Houston's lifeless body.
Did MJ get Whitney hooked on drugs? She must've been high while they were dating...
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