Nick Gordon posts unusual Christmas card featuring Bobbi Kristina Brown

The photo, which you can see here, shows the couple against a red backdrop with Santa hats photoshopped onto their heads and presents placed onto their laps.

Nick Gordon has shared a freaky Christmas card featuring him with his late girlfriend, Bobbi Kristina Brown.

Gordon, who was taken in as a child by Houston and raised alongside Brown, came under fire on social media and news outlets for the festive move.

Gordon’s holiday greeting comes as he is now embroiled in a public legal battle with Brown’s family over her July death. The complaint stated that Gordon had allegedly given Brown a “toxic cocktail” and then set her face-down in the bathtub.

Bobbi Kristina was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub at her Atlanta-area residence on January 31.

In August, Bobbi Kristina’s court-appointed conservator Bedelia Hargrove said: “Consistent with and to the letter of the civil action I initially filed on behalf of Bobbi Kristina, we will continue to pursue justice for her”.

The late singer Whitney Houston with late daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown in 2011.

The lawsuit seeks damages of at least US$10 million.

The lawsuit also accuses Nick Gordon of withdrawing an undisclosed amount of money from one of Bobbi Kristina’s bank accounts while she was unconscious in the hospital.