A life in the spotlight and some very public personal issues has prompted R&B star Bobby Brown to pen and publish a “raw, unvarnished” memoir set to be released next year, Rolling Stone reports.
The aptly-titled My Prerogative will detail Brown’s music career as a member of the group New Edition and as a solo act, his drug and alcohol abuse and will set the record straight on his marriage to the late great Whitney Houston. Many people blame Brown for her drug use, which was a contributing factor to her untimely death in February 2012.
Brown’s memoir was written after the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown, his daughter with Houston. The 22-year-old was found submerged in a bathtub this past January in a manner eerily similar to the way her mother was found before she was pronounced dead. Bobbi was in a medically- induced coma for several months before dying in hospice care in July.
Bobbi Kristina’s death was “one of the most agonizing traumas I had ever experienced” he said in a statement to the Associated Press regarding the book, however he noted that being able to write about his pain has been “therapeutic,” and that fans and readers will appreciate how honest he is while flipping through the pages.
“I hope my fans and other readers of this book will be entertained by this trip into the crazy, exciting, fascinating world of Bobby Brown,” he said “And I hope they will feel that I have been as honest and open with them in these pages as I have tried to be my entire life.”
The memoir is set to be released through Dey Street, an imprint through the publishing company HarperCollins.