ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The ongoing tensions between the families of the late Whitney Houston and her ex-husband, R&B singer Bobby Brown, arose again Saturday during a memorial service for their daughter, Bobbi Kristina.
Bobbi Kristina died in hospice care July 26, about six months after she was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta home.
A rift between families of the young woman’s mother and father broke out into the open at a memorial service being held for Bobbi Kristina at the St. James United Methodist Church in Alpharetta.
Leolah Brown, the sister of Bobby Brown, walked out of the church and spoke to reporters gathered outside. She said she was angry because Pat Houston was speaking at the funeral. Pat Houston is the sister-in-law and former manager for Whitney Houston.
“I told her that Whitney is going to haunt her from the grave,” Leolah Brown told reporters outside the church.
She suggested that the feud between the Houstons and the Browns was far from over.
“It’s just getting started,” she said.
Bobbi Kristina’s death was similar to the way her mother had died three years earlier. Bobbi Kristina Brown was the only child of Houston and Brown, and was raised in the shadow of her parents’ public life. She was the sole heir to her mother’s estate.