Rev. Al tweets about Bobby Brown's hasty retreat from the Whitney Houston funeral

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Brown was told he could bring two people. He brought nine. He was told the additional people wouldn't be seated. He was also told that Whitney's family wouldn't let him sit next to his daughter. So he left, without attending the services.

http://twitter.com/#!/TheRevAl/status/170935486976753664



Reverend Al Sharpton
@TheRevAl

I am at Whitney's funeral. I spoke with Bobby Brown trying to calm him down and not distract from the services. Today is about Whitney!

[CTyankee]

1. I have seen this kind of thing happen at services and it is just awful.

Don't people understand it's "not about them"? My ex husband did it to his sister's memorial service and a friend's husband did it at her service. I want to say "what is it about these MEN?" but I don't want to slam an entire group of people. Just my own experience, I guess...whatever...

[okieinpain]

2. man they need to let that man and his daughter be.

like it or not whitney did marry his ass.

[southernyankeebelle]

5. Well I was reading in the tabliods that the family is worried her father is trying to get ahold of

her money that she will inherit. They are only looking after the child. Right now her ex should be worrying about getting her along with the rest of the family into rehab. Grandma is working on it. They are trying to give her alittle breathing room.

[monmouth]

8. She's 19 years old, no child by any means. I agree she needs a close watch..n/t

[southernyankeebelle]

12. She might be of legal age but she still is young.

[malaise]

18. BS

It's his child not their child

[southernyankeebelle]

20. She hasn't been living with him. To tell you if I were the grandmother and see the condition she is

in I think I would want her to get help that she really needs. I do think she should of saw his daughter. But who knows like you said she is 19 and maybe she didn't want to see him. Who knows. She was very very close with her mother and her mothers family.

[no_hypocrisy]

25. My guess is that Whitney got more than adequate financial and estate planning advice.

She likely had a Will or a Trust ready for her death. An Executor or a Trustee would be supervising the money for Bobbi Kristina until she's 25 or whatever age Whitney decided to allow her daughter free access to her assets. Bobby Brown isn't getting anywhere near the money until that time.

[southernyankeebelle]

26. I hope your right. I feel so sad for her. I tell you to lose your mother is the worse thing in the

world. She was close to her momma. Honestly I know there isn't a day that goes by I still don't think of my momma. She has been dead well over 10 yrs.

[malaise]

11. Ding ding we have a winner

History will show that her family are no saints either

[rocktivity]

31. And unless it was at his daughter's request

The family had no business stopping him from seeing her.


rocktivity

[Mira]

33. before she divorced it

for abuse she had not anticipated.

[Tennessee Gal]

4. He should have done whatever he was asked to do

and kept his mouth shut out of respect for Whitney and their daughter.

Just my opinion.

[southernyankeebelle]

21. I agree with you.

[Tx4obama]

6. That's not the whole story, they asked him to change seats THREE times

See the UPDATE here: http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/18/whitney-houston-bobby-brown-funeral/#.T0A4_HnpiSo

[Amerigo Vespucci]

30. Thanks for posting...

...that information definitely wasn't available at the time of my original post.

[Tx4obama]

7. Also, Jesse Jackson To Don Lemon: Family ‘Could Have Accommodated [Bobby Brown] Better’

Here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jesse-jackson-to-don-lemon-family-could-have-accommodated-bobby-brown-better/

[aaaaaa5a]

9. I'm not a Bobby Brown fan, but men usually get a raw deal in family/custody issues. nt

[malaise]

10. Whitney's family has no right to prevent Bobby Brown from sitting

with his daughter.
Whitney's relatives are no saints - they are way more responsible for her problems than her ex-husband.

By the way he had no right to take nine people to the funeral.

[emilyg]

15. Good post.

[GP6971]

19. Agree. eom

[southernyankeebelle]

22. No one comes out the winner. But her family did try to help her. You can only do so much. Whitney

was 48 and she made her own mind up. Her mistake was marrying Bobby Brown in the first place. He got her on the road to drugs. However, he seems to have gotten on the right track. I can understand Whitney's family is trying to protect the girls interest. Remember WE ALL don't really know them like their family now all the players.

[HipChick]

34. Whitney was taking drugs long before she met Bobby

Her uncle gave her cocaine at 10.....all of her brothers have addiction problems...yet everyone is blaming Bobby...

[southernyankeebelle]

36. I love Whitney Houston. I don't care who gave it to her. All I know a beautiful voice has been

silenced and nothing is going to bring her back. I really know nothing about her personal history and if that is true it is very sad.

[rocktivity]

32. Unless not seeing Bobby was his daughter's idea, you're absolutely right.

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At age 18, she's old enough to decide that for herself.

And I'm not crazy about him being allowed to have only two guests when he had at least three children who grew up with his and Whitney's daughter.


rocktivity

[malaise]

35. Apparently the entourage was all family including

his other children who are after all Whitney's daughter's siblings.
Nothing amuses me more than so called Christians keeping up their wars - even when death interrupts the hate fest.

If his daughter didn't want to see him then I understand why Whitney needed all those pills. She may have poisoned her daughter re her father more than she poisoned herself with the drugs.

[LoveMeLoveYou]

13. The guy is selfish...

What more can really be said about it?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

14. This is the exact reason we didn't even have a funeral for my mother in law.

At her father's wake, her niece got up and told stories that weren't even TRUE just so it was all "Look at Darcy" hour. That side of the family is just ridiculous. And Bobby Brown should be ashamed of himself.

[CTyankee]

16. My ex husband told an out and out LIE at his sister's funeral about their step mother. It was

horrible. I was so embarrassed. I was also outraged. But I could do nothing at that point.

The step mother has been dead for about 9 years and there was no one around for a pushback but me (and perhaps another member of the family who was too prostrate with grief to do much). I was outraged. I told my kids it was an outrage, but they wanted to just smooth it all over in the interest of family peace.

OK. Great. A woman had been slimed in a memorial service and it was all about "family peace."

[UTUSN]

17. Without personally knowing the people involved, I get his rep as the bad guy

I also get that Ms HOUSTON was an adult who technically was responsible for her own choices, especially in the recent time after they divorced.

Aside from that, I heard the whole service in the background and it was all moving, funny, musically beautiful, and classy, and at least one FACET of her personality that came across along with all the "good" ones was that she was "pretty and liked to party," something that is said about a local media personality who has developed a solid career over the years.

So if he goes off the deep(er) end, "pushed" as Nancy GRACE would say, is he going to be eulogized the way she was?!1 All I'm saying is that I saw a few episodes of their passes-for-reality show and it looked like they loved each other and were both doing stuff of their own free will that they were liking to do.

[southernyankeebelle]

23. I will give it to him. He seems to have straighten himself out. But Whitney would never have been

that way if it weren't for the bad boy Bobby Brown. But in the end they divorced and no one to blame but herself if she died of drugs. But we still don't know that. I have a feeling she didn't. A beautiful voice has died.

[NoodleyAppendage]

24. His being there and leaving was his "Prerogative" n/t

bu da bump

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[JI7]

27. they should have let him sit with his daughter and he shouldn't have brought all those people

[richmwill]

28. I agree with you

Furthermore, if he was asked to move three times, I'd get the hint and leave. Especially after not being allowed to sit next to my daughter. I find no fault with him if he left for that reason. If he left because his seven uninvited guests weren't seated, then that's him being an ass.

[Alenne]

29. At least 3 of the people in his "entourage" were his children

I think they should have let his children in because Whitney was their stepmother. We don't know the relationship between Whitney and his kids. They may be mourning her death also. It all could have been handled better.