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I was so ready to ignore Bobby Brown‘s upcoming book about his drug-fueled life with Whitney Houston – until I read that Bobby and Janet Jackson used to be love birds. What? When did that happen and how did their relationship slip under the radar? Or am I the only one who didn’t know about it?
About Jackson, Brown says he never abused alcohol as much as he has until his relationship with the ‘Rhythm Nation’ singer hit the skids: “I can recall that I started drinking heavily when Janet Jackson and I broke up,” he writes. “Before I met Janet I would never drink hard liquor, I only drank beer. But after our break up, I started drinking hard liquor abundantly. I took the way our relationship ended very hard. Not to say we were head over heels in love, but she was someone I had a lot of feelings for. Besides, we were young and naive. I was only about 19 or 20 years old. Young love is no joke!” (Source)
yeah they broke up sometime before bobby and whitney got together…i remember bobby shouting janet out after one of his performances, but didnt know they were serious, just thought it was one of those things!
all i can say is wow.
You aren’t the only one who didn’t know these two dated, hell I doubt Janet knew. J/K Awwh poor Bobby B; he didn’t start doing hard liquor until Janet and hard drugs until Nippy.
GET OUTTA HERE!
Oh brother!!!(smh) ok b4 i get into the Janet thing why after all these years, all that money, all those albums/cd’s sold why didn’t Bobby ever think about his teeth!!!! I mean c’mon if 50 took the initiative!!!LOL I don’t know anyway Janet & Bobby(LMAO) where the hell was I at?? & is he gonna use that as his exxcuse for falling off or is Whitney getting all the blame???
ms.peaches Says: why didn’t Bobby ever think about his teeth!!!!
you are truly killing me
Man I gotta stop reading these exerpts (sp?). They are ruining the book for me. I will be picking it up the minute it hits books stores.
In the mean time I am camped out on TMZ watching the live stream outside of Jay-Z’s apartment. I can’t believe how excited I am about this wedding. If they don’t get married I’m going to be heartbroken.
jenet will do that to a brother if she leaves one! jermaine will commit suicde when janet leaves him and comes to me!
Bobby is going to milk this book as much as he can. Yesterday the buzz was he slept with a thousand woman. Was he trying to compare himself to Wilt Chamberland(sp). You know he did not wrap it up each and every time. I am surprised he does not have a disease.
And Janet sure can pick em. Bobby and Jermain. I know love is blind but shouldn’t you have a mate that compliments you and not look so scary looking.
I had no idea! I thought I was a Janet fan too. This is definitely news to me.
First Bobby says he didn’t do any hard drugs until he met Whitney, now it’s he didn’t do any hard liquor until he broke up with Janet!
Quoting Harvey Walden III , “You got more excuses than a Navy ship has @$$holes!”
Bird Says:
Man I gotta stop reading these exerpts (BTW-excerpts). They are ruining the book for me. I will be picking it up the minute it hits books stores.
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I hope you are joking! I know you got a lot better things to do then read the memoirs of a crackhead! lol [I kid! I kid!]
I just…well, I just can’t help thinking how WEAK Bobby is making himself sound. Blaming Janet for this, Whitney for that. Is he really that easily influenced? I mean, he just sounds weak-minded to me, and that’s not exactly an attractive quality in a man. In anyone, for that matter. A real man/woman takes responsibility for his/her own actions…
This man just needs to sell his book; it’s full of lies. He’s desperate for money. Obviously, a lot of people in Hollyweird are right now, thus all these antics/deception of late.
I don’t believe him, not one bit.
Yeah i knew about that. i think it was just a fling though. you know janet can have any man she wants. to the man,its a relationship, but to janet, its just a fling.
i’m thinking people close to her had that nipped quick, i mean shit, look what the outcome was with whitney. now he’s writing a tell all book?? bobby, just get a job. the rest of us with regular jobs dont like it as a way of life, but damn, at least we wake up/sleep with our pride and dignity. all of this he doing is too extra.
how you gone write the book then look ya daughter in the face?
I can believe he dated her think about it, in his 20’s Bobby had a huge female following so its not farfetched at all..I can also believe they nipped it because she was and still is a Jackson..Bobby was a bad look for her “wholesome image”..but he does need to shut things down, no one really care about drug induced memoirs
Janet is pretty and a little less talented ( did anyone catch her “break down” on Why Did I Get Married? that had us thinking why did she get the NAACP award?). Bobby Brown looks gross and makes the skin on the top of my knees itch. Ugh!
Why Did I Get Married, Janet sure did no justice to the movie. I wondered why she got the NAACP award. Even she was shocked she got it. She never could act. She is like Raven Symone, too dramatic or just tries to hard .
@Anna
He was not scary looking when they dated. We’re talking about a young Bobby Brown not this old cracked up version. I mean Bobby Brown was a big star and the hottest New Jack Swing artist out there. He was young and was considered a sexsymbol back then. He had women all over the place, so Janet dating bobby Brown in the late 80s early 90s is no surprise. I’ve heard this rumor before though.
wow…I wouldve never guessed
I believe this bs like I believe beyounce is a natural blond.
i think it was all lies. people will say anything to seel their crap. i mean who wants to read the ramblings of a crack head who owes money ? besides, if he was 19 or 20 then janet was 24 or 25 ? wasnt she married to renee her ex husband at that time ?
I read in an unauthorized Janet book back in 1995 that Janet and Bobby had a fling for a few months when she and Rene Elizondo had a brief split and when she got back with Rene, she broke it off with Bobby. She also messed around with Robert Deniro shortly before she got with Bobby during that time.
What’s funny is how he says he never drank hard liquor before Janet then he says he was 19 or 20. DAMN NEWS FLASH IDIOT YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN DRINKING AT ALL!!!!
He also says he and Madonna did the deed. In his time Bobby was THE MAN!! Don’t Be Cruel won album of the year, I think he won quite a few grammys and AMA’s during that time.