Mourners pay respects to Bobbi Kristina Brown amidst family feud
Dressed in all black, the grieving Brown was one of the first to exit the tension-filled private memorial service for Bobbi Kristina on Saturday at the St. James United Methodist Church in Alpharetta, just north of Atlanta.
Cissy and Pat Houston, Bobbi Kristina’s grandmother and aunt, announced her death on the Whitney Houston Facebook page on Sunday.
R&B singer Bobby Brown leaves a funeral service for his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown Saturday, August 1, 2015, in Alpharetta, Ga.
“I have information, I have evidence, I have knowledge of who Pat really is”, she told reporters. Etheredge just gave birth to a baby girl a couple of weeks before Bobbi Kristina’s death. Tyler Perry, Whitney’s longtime friend, was seen swiftly jumping into action, calming Leolah down before helping escort her outside.
Bobby Brown and Alicia Etheredge in Los Angeles in April 2015.
The funeral was invitation only and closely guarded, with family members said to be concerned about photographs of the late star being leaked to press. She’s with her mother now.
Bobbi Kristina is to be buried beside her mother in New Jersey Monday.
“Pat, it’s not over”, Leolah told reporters. It was followed by three stretch limousines carrying mourners to the service and a procession of dozens of cars.
But the somber occasion was disrupted by feuding betwen the Houston and Brown clans – resulting in Bobby Brown’s sister Leolah getting kicked out of the church.
She suggested that the feud between the Houstons and the Browns was far from over.
Brown’s boyfriend and another friend told police they found her in the bathtub and started CPR.
Sources say the Brown family planned to band together and stand guard so that a Bobbi Kristina Brown death photo did not circulate.
“The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Bobbi Kristina’s name to The Marion P. Foundation”, these words were written on the invites.
Perhaps the biggest question now remaining is what will happen to the remainder of Houston’s estate, worth an estimated $20 million.
Nick Gordon was not allowed to attend the funeral despite the fact that he wrote a hand written letter asking for entry to the church.