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The drugs,

Claims that SHE offered HIM drugs when he was clean Claims she was only once hurt by him in accident Claims wasted singer left him for dead after stroke

- BY EMILY RETTER Senior Feature Writer

It is the morning of his wedding to Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown is racked with crippling self-doubt. “I love her more than anything,” he wails, before explaining with the expression of a confused child: “Nobody thinks I deserve her... and maybe I don’t.”

Meanwhile, Whitney is snorting cocaine. “It’s because I’m nervous,” she tells lovelorn Bobby. When he walks in on the drug taking he looks appalled but kisses her forgivingl­y on the head and they head happily to the altar.

Whether these fictional scenes of the stars’ 1992 wedding have any basis in reality, we will never know. But he certainly wants us to think so.

They appear in two-part biopic The Bobby Brown

Story, airing tonight and tomorrow and produced by Brown. It follows events from the end of his band, New Edition, in 1985 to the present. But its insight into the Grammywinn­er’s volatile relationsh­ip with late star Whitney is its biggest draw.

And it seems Bobby, 49, sees this as his big chance to swing public opinion.

Bobby has always been condemned as the bad boy who set the angel-voiced soul singer on her downward spiral. He was accused of abusing Whitney and getting her hooked on drugs – a view heightened by her tragic death in 2012.

The 48-year-old was found in a bath at the Beverly Hilton with cocaine in her system. The hauntingly similar death of their girl Bobbi Kristina, aged 22, came three years later.

This film depicts young Bobby as a lost soul, entranced by and devoted to diva Whitney

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