Atlanta (CNN)Two days before she was found face-down in the bathtub at her home outside Atlanta in January, it seemed like Bobbi Kristina Brown's career might have been picking up.
"Let's start this career up&&moving OUT to TO YOU ALLLL quick shall we !?!???!" she said in an enthusiastic tweet.
It's not clear what projects she may have been working on, and sadly, the world may never know.
Brown,
the daughter of late superstar Whitney Houston and singer Bobby Brown,
died Sunday at the age of 22, a representative of the Houston family
said in a statement.
"Bobbi Kristina
Brown passed away Sunday, July, 26 2015, surrounded by her family," the
statement said. "She is finally at peace in the arms of God. We want to
again thank everyone for their tremendous amount of love and support
during these last few months."
She was treated in a hospital and then a hospice facility
in the nearly six months since she was found unresponsive and not
breathing in the bathtub at her Roswell, Georgia, home on January 31 --
nearly three years to the day after her mother accidentally drowned in a
bathtub in Beverly Hills, a victim of the vices she had fought for much
of her career.
As rumors flew, family took sides
Brown
was placed in a medically induced coma, relatives have said. Rumors
flew about her condition, with family members and loved ones taking
sides in the drama.
In April, her maternal grandmother, Cissy Houston, said Bobbi Kristina had "global and irreversible brain damage."
"Meeting
with the doctors and understanding that she can live in this condition
for a lifetime truly saddens me," Houston said. "We can only trust in
God for a miracle at this time."
The
statement was released days after her father and Whitney Houston's
former husband, R & B singer Bobby Brown, told an audience in
Dallas, "I can say today, Bobbi is awake. She's watching me."
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On June 24, Bobbi Kristina's aunt, Pat Houston, announced that her niece had been moved to a hospice facility.
"Despite
the great medical care at numerous facilities, Bobbi Kristina Brown's
condition has continued to deteriorate," Houston's statement said. "As
of today, she has been moved into hospice care. We thank everyone for
their support and prayers. She is in God's hands now."
Many had worried the young woman was haunted by some of the same demons as her mother.
Love, grief and family tensions
Whitney
Houston and Bobby Brown married in 1992 and welcomed Bobbi Kristina in
1993. The little girl was doted upon by both her parents and Houston
often brought the youngster on stage.
Houston told Rolling Stone magazine in 1993
that "having Bobbi Kristina ... I could never do anything that could
top that. There's been nothing more incredible in my life than having
her."
"God knows, I have been in front
of millions and millions of people, and that has been incredible, to
feel that give-take thing," Houston said. "But, man, when I gave birth
to her and when they put her in my arms, I thought: 'This has got to be
it. This is the ultimate.' I haven't experienced anything greater."
Mother
and daughter grew even closer after Houston's divorce from Brown in
2007. Houston and Bobbi Kristina performed together on ABC's "Good
Morning America" in 2009, singing "My Love Is Your Love" in Central
Park.
After Houston's death on February
11, 2012 -- an accidental drowning in a bathtub, a coroner ruled, with
heart disease and cocaine use named as contributing factors -- there was
a great deal of concern for Brown, who was 18 at the time.
She opened up to Oprah Winfrey during an interview in March 2012 about how she was coping with the loss of her mother.
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"No one knows what an amazing spirit she was," Brown told Winfrey. "She wasn't only a mother, she was a best friend."
Brown said that her grief came in waves but that she still communicated with her mom.
"I
can hear her voice telling me to 'keep moving, baby; I gotcha,' " she
said. "She's always with me. I can always feel her with me."
Brown
was joined in her grief by Nick Gordon, who was taken in by Houston
when he was 12 years old and who was raised alongside Bobbi Kristina.
Gordon
and Brown became romantically involved after Houston's death, and
tensions between the Gordon and Houston families over the relationship
were part of the storyline on Lifetime's short-lived reality show "The
Houstons: On Our Own."
There was
speculation that Brown may have suffered from some of the same problems
as her parents (both Houston and Brown had documented issues with
substance abuse) after she appeared to be intoxicated during some scenes of the reality show.
Those
concerns intensified in July 2014 after a picture was posted on her
Instagram account showing a young woman who looked like Brown appearing
to be smoking from a bong. The image had made the media rounds two years
earlier.
Brown later denied that she posted the photo and tweeted that it was done by someone attempting to tarnish her image.
Brown
and Gordon announced their engagement in 2013, and she took to her
Facebook page to clear up the misconception that he was her adopted
brother. Far from being bothered by the relationship were she still
alive, Brown said, her mother had predicted they would fall in love.
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Criminal investigation
It
was Gordon and a male friend who discovered Brown unconscious in her
townhome. While Brown called Gordon her husband (she had tweeted a
picture believed to be of their hands wearing wedding rings with the
hashtag #HappilyMarried) there is no court record of a marriage between
the two, and family members say the couple was never legally wed.
Police
had been called to Brown's home January 23 after someone reported a
fight there, but no one answered the door, and officers found no
evidence of an altercation, a Roswell police spokeswoman said.
After
Brown was found in the bathtub, authorities launched a criminal
investigation. A family friend said police questioned Gordon about the
bruising on Brown's chest and said he told them it was a result of his
giving her CPR.
Gordon gave an emotional and sometimes explosive interview that aired in March on the "The Dr. Phil Show" in which he complained of being denied access to Brown.
"I can't lose Krissy; I just can't," he cried.
The
talk show host persuaded Gordon to enter a treatment program for
substance abuse, and in April, his attorney, Randy Kessler, confirmed
Gordon was no longer in rehab.
In June, a civil lawsuit was filed against Gordon in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia,
alleging that Gordon's behavior "caused, among other things,
substantial bodily harm to Brown." It also alleged that since Brown's
hospitalization in January, Gordon accessed her bank accounts and stole
more than $11,000.
On Monday, Gordon's
close friend Jack Walker said that "At the moment, he's distraught.
Even though (Bobbi Kristina) was in that condition, (Nick) always had
hope that she would pull through.
"He
was saying for the last week or so, 'I love her. I don't want to lose
her. I just want to see her,' " Walker said. "All he wanted to do was
see her, hold her hand, talk to her. He was not allowed to do that."
Brown
was initially taken to North Fulton Hospital and placed in a medically
induced coma, and she was later transferred to Emory University Hospital
in Atlanta, where she was on life support in the neuro intensive care
unit. In March, she was moved to a rehabilitation center.
Despite
reports of fighting over her care, on June 19, Bobby Brown said the
family was working together on behalf of his daughter.
"I
am making decisions with (Bobbi Kristina's aunt) Pat Houston and we are
working together for the medical care of my daughter," Brown said in a statement.
"Right now we are focused on Bobbi Kristina's medical prognosis and the
criminal investigation. These are the priorities for us. Whoever had a
hand in causing my daughter's injuries needs to be brought to justice."
Her
death cut short the dreams she had of following in her mother's
footsteps by pursuing a career in music and acting. In 2012, she made
her acting debut on Tyler Perry's TBS show "For Better or Worse." Perry
is a close family friend who frequently visited Brown while she was
hospitalized.
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