Reality Roll Call

Singer and reality tv star Bobby Brown has written an autobiography which explains his flawed adult existence is the fault of his ex-wife, Whitney Houston.

In his yet to be released book, former boy band star, blames the pop diva on his addiction to drugs. According to the New York Post, in his book, titled Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But, he writes:

“I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney. Before then, I had experimented with other drugs, but marijuana was my drug of choice.” It wasn’t the gateway drug use that did him in, because I assume that he didn’t even know coke existed.

It’s kind of like a bank robber saying, “I would have never robbed a bank if I hadn’t got mixed up with bank robbers. Before then, all I did was shoplift, mug people, burglarize and carjack. And really, mugging old folks was my favorite thing.” The first step to making positive changes in your life is to blame someone else for your life. Thanks for sharing, Bobby.

He also says that he and Whitney got married for all the wrong reasons. No, she got married for the wrong reasons. She wanted to squash reasons that she was having a lesbian affair with her assistant. Admittedly, there was a lot of Whitney Houston is gay talk back then. But poor Bobby, he just “wanted to be loved and have children.” But Bobby actually has more kids out of wedlock than with Whitney, two of whom he was arrested for non-payment of child support.

For the record, Whitney Houston has taken the high road, and decided not to dignify any of this with a response. According to her rep she is “sad that Bobby feels the need to say such things, but she chooses to take the high road, and will not speak badly about the father of her child even if it’s to set the record straight.”

The book, which is being co-written (read: written by) Derrick Handspike, and is being self-published by Down South Books and distributed by Altas Books of Ohio will be released on June 1. Brown was mostly recently on the CMT reality show Gone Country and had his own reality show on Bravo, Being Bobby Brown.

He was also on this show in the U.K. but I don’t know if it ended well.