Self-proclaimed Houston family friend Raffles van Exel sold a story to the British tabloids detailing Bobbi Kristina's immediate reaction to her mother Whitney Houston's death and implies Bobbi Kris may have been on drugs at the time...
From The Mirror
Raffles describes how Whitney’s family and friends were so paralysed with shock in the minutes after she was declared dead that he was left to comfort Bobbi Kristina, 19, the daughter she had with ex-husband Bobby Brown.
“I walked into Bobbi Kristina’s room and she was crying and bawling,” he says. “She asked me, ‘Is my mummy gone?’ I said, ‘They are working on her.’
“She held me and said, ‘I can’t believe she is gone.’ I didn’t want to be the one who told her her mother was dead.
"I asked to borrow her phone and I called Bobby Brown. I said, ‘Yo Bobby, where you at?’ “He said he was in Boston. I said, ‘I need you to come to LA, Whitney just died.’ He started crying. He said, ‘Is this a joke? Tell me this is a f***ing joke?’
“At some point someone told Bobbi Kristina her mother was dead. I think Pat gave her the news. Bobbi became hysterical.
“She started screaming and hyperventilating. She was really out of it. I told Pat that we needed to call an ambulance. Pat said, ‘I can’t deal with this right now.’
“I called an ambulance and we took Bobbi Kristina to Cedars Sinai hospital. But she was still so out of it and kept saying she couldn’t breathe. I think she might have taken something that day but I can’t be sure.
“The doctors wanted to give her something to calm her down, but she wouldn’t let them. Bobbi Kristina was in a really bad way.”
