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 Beyonce leaves national anthem unfinished. Musk says his new party is in business. Kerr County considered a flood warning system years ago. A Texas man's disappearance is fodder for true-crime mania. Report an error