I don’t usually like to refute other blogs information. However, I am being asked if the family has made the decision to take Bobbi Kristina off of life support. It has been clear to me for some time that there will not be a positive ending to this situation. There is not enough brain function for Bobbi Kristina to make a full recovery, or any recovery.
The family has been quoted by anonymous sources all day today and these sources tend to conflict with each other. Some say Bobby Brown is fighting with the Houstons. Some say he is fighting with Nick Gordon. Other sources say everyone has come together. Credible local news reports in Atlanta say that there has been increased activity regarding visitors to Bobbi Kristina today. Reporters have interpreted that as people coming to pay their last respects.
Here is what I know for sure.
1) I believe local news reporters here over gossip sites. Especially those with exclamation points in their name.
2) Two hospitals have said that Bobbi Kristina has minimal brain functioning left and there is nothing more they can do for her.
3) There are more visitors than usual today. As extended family and friends continue to arrive.
4) Today is Bobby Brown’s birthday. His pregnant (wife? GF?) and one of his other daughters are with him at the hospital. Removing a loved one, particularly one of your children from life support is a horrific, grueling decision. The desire to hold out hope is strong. The guilt of “giving up” is strong. No one knows what is going on in that hospital. The dynamics between the family members is irrelevant. A terrible decision has to be made. They are working through it. We will know when it happens eventually. I have no desire to be the first to report when it happens. I will let you know as soon as I have confirmation. And if you are the praying type, the family could certainly use your prayers.
Well said!
Sigh just sad!
TT your coverage of this has been so heartwarming and not sensational to ‘make it worse’ so to say. I feel nothing but sadness for this family. I know how unbearably hard it is to remove life support. I had to do it with my son and many years later with my elderly mother. This is something that hurts you beyond words, even knowing there is no hope. Again, TT I highly respect you for your coverage.
Momoffourkids so sorry for the loss of your loved ones. They are your angels now. Stay strong. And I am also very sad for Bobbi Kristina and what her father has to go through. He’s made a lot of mistakes, but seems to be a good man who loves his daughter.
And I am also very moved by the respect with which you’ve reported Tamara.
Thanks. But it should be the rule, not the exception. The topic is plenty newsworthy without making shit up.
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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My prayers are with you, Bobbi Kristina. I pray for a Miracle for you. Creator please help her and her loved ones.
Poor thing 🙁
Thank you TT.
Oh wow. If it’s BB’s birthday today, one could reasonably assume, they wouldn’t do anything today. This situation is horrific and they’ll never get over it, but making the choice to end/give up on your birthday I’m sure no one would even want to associate the two
I am so sorry this poor girl is where she is. Such a tragedy. Thanks for keeping us informed. Keeping her in my prayers. She will be with her Mom soon, which is where, I believe. she truly wanted (wants) to be.
Praying for you and your family.
Incredibly tragic. There really are no words.
Thank you Tamara, well said. My heart and prayers are with the family.
So sad for this poor girl and her family. Thanks for the post, TT.
That sucks 🙁 Poor Bobby Brown, I can’t imagine the pain he is in. Let’s hope for a miracle.
I hope BK is at peace. I can’t even imagine the emotions of dealing with in laws, outlaws and ‘why are you here? I have to pretend to be civil’ kind of crew in the waiting room. I did it with people I 100% love and respect and there was so much bullshit to deal with!!! We all wanted the same things, but getting there was brutal by all the detours we had to indulge people. Again, hoping BK and ALL of them peace and strength.
So sad. My heart is with this family at this difficult time.
My daughter is the same age as BK 🙁 and I am truly sad for her and her family. May God give them the courage to make the best decision possible, strength to endure unimaginable heartache and the peace of His love.
I’m glad that they had her moved to Emory. Being faced with a decision like this for such a young person is beyond fathomable. I would want to get a second opinion from a top facility as well. Sounds like the original prognosis was confirmed, and now they have to process the situation. I wouldn’t say it would make the decision easier, but at least it will take away some of the second guessing that will normally happen after something like this. If they hadn’t gotten a second opinion, they would forever be wondering if they did the right thing.
My family had time to come to terms with removing my nephew off life support. We watched his decline for a while and knew it was the only decision. When it’s sudden and out of the blue, families don’t have a lot of time to process.
That’s s very good point about having a 2nd opinion and not questioning if there was something that could have been done. Incredibly difficult – I just can’t imagine,
Just list my 21 year old nephew last year to suicide. It’s so hard on all the family when someone dies in their prime. This child lived a very difficult life. It just goes to show that money cannot buy happiness. Treasure every moment you have with your children.
Thanks TT
Let her spirit fly and let her go be with her mother. She is waiting.
Amen…so be it.
This is so heartbreaking.
I pray there is still a miracle, if there isn’t my heart aches for the family.
Thanks, TT.
I ain’t even gonna lie, this is so sad that it makes me want to ball my eyes out. I’m not going to pray that she stay on this side, nope, I will pray that she is released from this world of pain and sorrow. I will pray peace and mercy to her loved ones though…she will be free, and they will be stuck with their consciences.
I haven’t heard anything about Ce Ce Winans showing up at the hospital yet. She could have gotten in and out of the first on undetected perhaps but not Emory.
I think she and some others may have finally understood the time to come is now. She’s in Nashville, I’m surprised if she is not already here. I’d expect Dionne Warwick to show up soon, etc.
Also no word on any citing of Cissy Houston who may or may not be up to travel.
I would think the close family and friends would have some sort of prayer vigil/homecoming sendoff as a group before the machines are shut off.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Homecoming sendoff — that brought tears to my eyes.
Im glad Bobby Browns attorney, Christopher Brown issued the statement that Bobbie Kriss and Nick Gordon had never married. Bobby Brown will make the decision when to take her off life support. Pray for Bobby, he is suffering in a way that doesnt alliviate with time.
Just because Bobby Brown’s atty says something doesn’t make it true.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Well I am probably going to catch grief for this but…. Whitney was a POS mom and if she was not beautiful and talented, nobody would care. The average drug addicted/child neglecting mom dies without any publicity but a death notice. I am sure both she and Bobby loved this child as much as your average addict. I am so ANGRY, Jesus, Joseph, and Mary. Quit blaming fame, Nick Gordon, it was Krissy’s choice and she had far more options than most people. I really am sad, but I am sad, that this is common, and if your parent’s are not famous you are a risk management stat. This still breaks my heart for all that loved her but I am really sick of the “oh if Whitney had not died” BS
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I think you jelly.
“loved this child as much as your average addict”
Life is life, one isn’t more valuable or less than the other. I get your anger. I watched an addict friend have to remove life-support to his 24 y.o. daughter. And then I watched him give his life to addiction and die.
I’m focusing on this because Whitney and Bobby’s music gave me a lot of fun times and to this day i’ll make an ass out of myself in the car, singing along. It would have been nice to see their life turn out happier.
Anger is a normal reaction to suicide. And drug addiction.
I taught kindergarten for many years. I found that all families loved their children, and some were better at it than others. The thing the parents had in common was that they wanted a better life for their children.
It seems that the Houston-Brown families can’t find peace anywhere on this earth.
Whitney might not have been perfect but she loved her child fiercely! Yes, stop putting Whitney down! She suffered enough being a drug addict which was her choice but she love Bobbi K. Folks just can’take let Whitney rest in peacenm
She not resting. She’s dead. She has no idea what people are posting here. Wormfood.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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What a horrible burden for Bobby Brown, for any parent, to have to make this decision. She is too young and as someone said earlier, families are never prepared when it happens suddenly. (Or relatively suddenly, in this case)
Ok Fuck This, I am sort of crying and I shouldn’t be. I am just disgusted and I am angry at all the vitriol that was directed toward Bobby Brown after Whitney’s death; he was possibly the one person who could have helped her. WTF is wrong with that family.
Thank you TT. That was beautifully said.
Thank you TT…and prayers going UP….
I believe she was broken beyond repair before any of this happened. My heart truly breaks for this young lady and will continue to pray for her peace and happiness – no matter what the outcome.
Tamara, thanks for such a supportive and eloquenty written update.
Thank you Tamara. I haven’t stopped praying .
Thanks y’all. It’s a sad story. It pisses me off when sites claim that there is improvement when improvement is long since not possible. And especially for a large site to run an “exclusive” based on “an anonymous police officer stating ‘the plug was pulled’ ” Anything for ratings with these asshats.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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So sad. Thank you for reporting on this, Tamara.
Prayers for comfort, strength, and peace.
this is a good post, tamara. i feel terrible for the whole family. praying for a miracle, but nothing sounds hopeful at this point. hate that people are saying such mean things about whitney’s only child and her whole family. yes, reality bites sometimes, but to kick people when they are down just sucks.
Well, its not like they have to “pull the plug”, because lack of funds. Who has the last word? I would think it would be her father. I don’t care for Pat Houston at all, I watched “The Houston’s” and Kris didn’t like her controlling aunt, although I felt she was concerned. Kris also said she never saw her father, Bobby Brown. I still think she was trying to commit suicide, and decided to end her life as her mother did.
I have no doubt that she intended to take her own life. Her tweets showed desperation to get into the studio without anyone replying to those tweets. Add in that she was an addict, most likely from birth, that things may have been rocky with her husband-brother, the lifetime movie, and the anniversary of her mother’s death – was there really any doubt how this would end? I just hope that the family isnt trying to stretch this until Feb 11….. I just wish the media sites would use flattering pictures of her and stop using that one where her shoes don’t match. I feel for Bobby and any parent who has to go through this.
Again many thanks for the credible reporting Tamara. Having been in this God awful situation with my own beautiful daughter in 2013, you are spot on about the family’s heartbreaking decision. I appreciate your beautiful & compassionate description of the unspeakable sadness that is their’s as they say goodbye.
I am sick of these other outlets reporting pure crap. If I don’ t see it here I don’t believe a word of it!
I’m so sorry for your loss Lisa, and the memories that this must be brining back.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I thank you too TT. Here, is the ONLY place that I have been reading about the updates since I first heard the news. I had to make this same decision in 2012 (there in the ATL) for my elderly aunt. It was hard, and I did feel guilty for a little while, but she was elderly and they (the drs) said that there was nothing more that could be done for her, and I knew she wouldn’t have wanted to be kept alive like that, so I consented. I still don’t feel bad about it. But I cannot begin to imagine how that family feels in having to make that decision. I send them all of my prayers because BK is already in Gods’ hands no matter the outcome.
Sorry for your loss as well eg. This story does remind those who have been through it of the sad times. I recall going ballistic getting to my mother’s ICU with NO FAMILY there after I traveled late at night and saw a DNR on her chart.
She had a stroke and according to doctors would not have had much quality of life.
Anyway. I hope for all our sakes and theirs, they do not draw this out much longer.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Watching Dr. Drew…Bobby Brown is calling the shots on his daughter. Bobby stated that SHE was not legally married to Nick. If they were married, then Nick would be in charge, as her husband.
She is in a medically induced coma, they tried to bring her out of it, and she began to have seizures. Dr. Drew said this was very serious, and the drugs they use to induce the coma, would kept them from accessing a reading of her brain activity. He also said he viewed “The Houston’s” and in the scene where Bobbi Kristina looks high, he indicated signs of pharmaceutical use.
I don’t think this was an accident, I think it was a decision she made.
LOL Dr. Drew said the sedatives would keep them from reading her brain activity? Lawd, I’m hoping you misunderstood.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Ha, what the hell do I know? I didn’t quote him word for word, but this is jest of what I took from it. He’s said she had very little brain activity. She went into a “generalized seizure” when they tried to take her out of it.
Yes, exactly. And their constant brain activity monitoring let them know this. 🙂
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Exactly Bobby is making the decision as reported on ABC World News tonight. I, too think hes waiting on family to arrive but like TT has said she is brain dead. My Mother also had a DNR and so do I.
This for some reason reminds me of the Anna Nicole Smith death of her son. It’s just tragic.
Thanks TT for all the hard work and info. So tragic and so sad!
My thoughts and prayers are with BK and the family and friends. God Bless and be with them all!
When my favorite aunt passed, I knew little about the body’s process of dying. My aunt experienced similar movement in her body…she was still for a couple of days after she had an aneurysm, then her eyes started blinking and fluttering, fingers and toes were moving. I believed things were turning around but sadly I was wrong. A nurse told me these movements were neurological misfires, not to be taken as an indication that things were getting better. Making the decision to cease life support is devastating. I pray the Brown/Houston families end the fighting, and make a decision best for Bobbi Kristina.
I think they are waiting to either let her go the same day Whitney died or that they will bury her the same day they buried Whitney. Or they were just waiting for Cissy to arrive. I don’t think they will take her off life support on her fathers birthday.
I think they are waiting for Cissy and Ce Ce and Dionne and others. I think they probably gave them all the wait and see report. And now they have been told to come.
That’s just me, no source.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Dionne’s in the hospital herself. I believe she fell in the tub.
Cissy is already there.
Dionne is not in the hospital. She feel in the shower and hurt her ankle.
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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This is so sad for many different reason. So tragic when a young person cuts their life short. 21 years old. She hadn’t even begun to live her life. Bobby having to make the worse gut wrenching decision a parent could have to make. Poor Cissy, first your daughter then your daughter’s daughter. Bobbi Kristina, go in peace.
I get chills just reading everyones’ comments. Our lives and the lives of those we love, are so fragile. And you really feel that, in watching someone you don’t even know or ever will know go through something like this.When you see your kids, mom, dad, spouse, siblings cousins, best friend, neighbors etc. just tell them you love them. You don’t ever know when the last goodbye IS the last goodbye. Don’t mean to bring anybody down.
Thank u so much TT. I have 3 children, 3 grandchildren & the first grandchild passed away. It was nothing like this, but its hard to grasp the thought that with everything medical professionals do that child that u love dearly is not coming back. Still praying, for her & family. I was watching her videos on YouTube… in a perfect world she would have pursued a career in music. My heart goes out.
BK has a beautiful singing voice… tone, pitch, quality… very good
Really sad & wish there was a different outcome.
Let her stay on life support. I dont care if it take year. GOD has the last words. Many people. Are. Praying.
So you are praying for a new brain? You should be praying for someone to do the right thing. If you are so religious that you are praying for this brain dead person you do not know, then what is your problem with letting her go to the hereafter?
Best. Response. Ever.
My heart gos out to the family , my prayers are with them , I love whitney & bk xxxx