Celebrity | Whitney Houston Bobby Blames Whitney for His Drug Abuse In new book, he also says they married to quell lesbian rumors By Will McCahill Posted Apr 3, 2008 8:30 PM CDT Copied Bobby Brown, center, shares a chuckle with other former members of the group New Edition, Johnny Gill, left, and Ricky Bell in a 2007 photo (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas) Bobby Brown has put his latest salvo at ex-wife Whitney Houston in writing, E! reports, claiming in an upcoming book that she turned him on to cocaine and that their "doomed-from-the-very-beginning" marriage was mainly aimed to quell rumors about her sexuality. Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But... hits shelves June 1. Houston, 44, is "sad that Bobby feels the need to say such things," a rep said today, "and will not speak badly about the father of her child even if it's to set the record straight." The oft-incarcerated Brown, 39, writes he "never used cocaine until after I met Whitney." The pair, Grammy winners both, married in 1992 and divorced last year. Read These Next And ... 23,000 pages of Epstein files are now out. Trump commuted his sentence. Now he's headed back behind bars. Breaking Bad creator's new show is wowing critics. Some of what has surfaced so far from the Epstein emails. Report an error