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Attorney Phaedra Parks of The Real Housewives of Atlanta was a special guest on last night’s “Watch What Happens LIVE!” after show with Andy Cohen.
Parks, whose hubby Apollo served drinks as eye-candy for the night, spoke about the untimely passing of her good friend Whitney Houston.
As you know, Parks once represented Houston’s husband Bobby Brown on numerous cases during their residency in the city of Atlanta and she provided legal assistance during their “Being Bobby Brown” reality show days.
Parks revealed that the couple had a connection even after the drama surrounding their addictive behaviors and subsequent divorce.
Of all the married couples I’ve been around, I can say they probably had the PUREST love I’ve ever been around.
It was a connection like none other and while people always made sweeping judgments about the relationship, they were crazy about each other.
And even after the divorce, I spoke to Whitney on numerous occasions and I knew that they still had a connection.
Andy, who appeared shocked at her answer, also asks Phaedra about her opinion on the public’s perception that it was Brown who caused Whitney’s downfall.
Watch video of her response + more photos below… [Kandi Burruss also calls in to share her memories of Whitney]
As for her feelings on if Bobby played a role in Whitney’s demise, Phaedra states:
Everyone has always thought that Bobby had a lot of influence on Whitney. They had a very interesting relationship and what I can say is that Whitney was definitely her… she was a very strong woman. I mean… she had a very strong personality and they were both adults at the end of the day. I can’t say that Bobby did anything to her to bring her down and obviously… I loved the both of them.
I guess the one thing she and I had in common…. both of our mothers were very strong women of God and faith. There were numerous occasions that Whitney prayed with me and I likewise prayed with her.
So if I know nothing else, I am so sure that she knew God and had a good relationship with Christ.
VIDEO: Phaedra Parks & Gloria Estefan on WWHL
I’m still shocked that people are still blaming Bobby.
What do you think of Phaedra’s response?
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Eww…Phaedra was sweating like a hog! But anyway, I am glad she told the truth: Bobby and Whitney really loved each other, and Bobby was not the cause of Whitney’s downfall.
Sorry Phaedra but you can’t have a good relationship with Christ and be a addict. smh you as PK should know that. Jesus don’t condone drug usage. If she did she wouldn’t have to turn to drugs to solve or hide her problems. Yes, she will be missed but let’s not be stupid.
Since Ms.Thang is such a southern bell I’m surprised no one has clued her in about dress shields.
i think phaedra tried to put the truth as nicely as possible. so many people think bobby introduced it to her, meaning coke…which i dont believe was the case…i think she introduced herself to it and them having such an undeniable chemistry caused a lot of things to get out of control..whitney didnt seem like the type to be led or forced to do anything…and thats what phaedra was trying to say.
She sounded like some random fan. She said nothing that any other person couldn’t have made up out of thin air. So sick of her riding Bobby Brown’s coattails. The man never even speaks of her. Like Nene said: "excuse me, Bobby Brown was 10 years ago!"
Phaedra you know nothing more of Whitney Houston than the man on the street and you know nothing of her and Bobby’s marriage and whether their love was real.
Notice how when Andy asked her if Bobby Brown brought Whitney down, Phaedra didn’t answer the question. She went on about Whitney knowing Christ.
Woman please shut thy mouth!
@Miss Nic, just because someone has an addiction does not mean that they cannot have a relationship with Christ. Really? David was a man after God’s own heart but had an addiction to women. Nevertheless, he constantly prayed that God would not take his spirit away from him.
We all have struggles and while yours may not be a spirit of addiction it doesn’t change the fact that we love God and that he loves us! People walk around with spirits of lust, jealousy, anger, etc all day, but that doesn’t change the love.
@ Tasha, well said. We all fall short from the Glory of God.
OMG..WHAT IS ALL THAT SWEAT UNDER PHAEDRA PARKS BRIGHT PINK DRESS .. WHAT IS THAT STANK STANK…OMG
Amen Sister @Tasha that was very well said and @Kamalla be quiet she knew them well enuff for Bobby n Whitney to call on her when he got in trouble. She didn’t wanna say no Bobby ain’t bring Whitney down hell she was on crack n he was on coke. So she went into something else cuz she didn’t wanna speak I’ll of the dead
@ tam ,…you are so right about that…
rest peacefully whitney
I LIKE PHAEDRA! Maybe I’m a "softie" but I don’t know how people could speak so negatively about someone that has passed… Bobby Brown is grieving too. GOD BLESS THEM ALL.
phaedra is a fame whore , she would do free
service back in the day too get her name out there and shes not a good lawyer. And she dont
have money like she pretends too have .
And I do think tht Bobby is sad as well.
All the negativity, when does it end……
@MissNic, your stupid. That is all.
I personally,not knowing Phaedra or Whitney,will say what I think Whitney’s downfall stemmed from. Whitney was in love with Robyn. Society and the entertainment business would not allow that because it would NOT be good for Whitney’s career.Same with so many singers and actors.George Michaels,Luther Vandross,Tony Perkins,Michael Jackson,Liberace,Tevin Campbell,even Prince. Camera’s were EVERYWHERE and at one point Robyn and Whitney were living together. Whitney had to tell Robyn to live in the shadows and it didn’t work out for either of them. They were in love. What bigger insult could she do to society that wouldn’t let her live her life the way SHE wanted to than to marry Bobby Brown. And he proved to be what America HATED. In the meantime,she had to use something to bear staying with this man. She used drugs before Bobbi Christina. Everytime they had a serious fight she ran to Robyn. Eventually Robyn,being a REAL lesbian,turned her away. THIS was her downfall.And Bobby’s then broke azz kept her in that stupor til HE no longer could use her(thanks to her pre-nup).Her way back was due to Clyde Davis,though her voice was pretty much gone. I think in the end she knew she could never live up to her fans expectations,and that was true,especially getting booed overseas. So she took her own life.She was an amazing tragedy. There will never be another Nat King Cole,Aretha Franklin,Gladyss Knight,Lady Day or…Whitney Houston.
Before you crucify me,think…what GAY OR LESBIAN lyricist or musician do you know that is successful? Don’t say Ellen cause she aint’ singin’ to nobody. Culture Club? Where are they now? Even David Bowie didn’t reveal his sexuality(not that we didn’t know) and he married Iman. Elton John?..he’s one of the reasons the entertainment business wanted to KEEP the male singers in the closet.Black house music dude..Sylvester?..his name is only relevant on "Unsung",though his songs are hits today.
Then again..if the girls are gonna have their pants hangin’ off their azzez with doo rags and the guys are gonna be in lacefronts and six inch heels…they can keep their songs.
Instead of "powder in her panties" she should have put dome under her arms that day! I can’t focus on the story for looking at her sweaty arm pits!
People…..If you really paid close attention to her life style BEFORE Bobby, you will see she dated some VERY popular men. And they dranked and other stuff too. And EVERYBODY knows Eddie Murphy was a party animal in his early years. But she didn’t. So now she meets Bobby and she does what every woman does when they are head over heels in love…I don’t think her first encounter in the presence of drugs was with Bobby, but I DO believe she didn’t try it or start TIL Bobby. So to say that he didn’t introduced it to her is a FAR cry from reality. She did what the love of her life did, so that means when she saw him doing drugs, she tried it and continued. And again,if you understand drugs and how they work…it only takes one try mixed with an emotional feeling/fixation to hook you. She was her own woman after that first with Bobby. And might even kept him going at times, who knows…
Either way, she tried to get away from the demon. Her attempts were there with her still loving God and reading the bible. But not ALL demons can be beaten alone. And I think she was alone in fighting them, until it finally over powered her. R.I.P. You don’t have to fight no more Whitney.
But ummm, let me touch on this Phaedra pic…is she having a sweating moment? Cause the arm pits and that damp spot at the crotch of her outfit is NOT lady like for pics….IJS…
Lord have mercy and bless everoney that has such a negative comment during a sad time.
I mean EVERYONE. I just know most of you who are talking are prefect.
@reita collins SHUT UP!!!! YOU SOUND REALLY STUPID!!!!
@ reita collins
You are so far off base its almost difficult to believe you are being serious and not just joking.
Whitney loved Bobby Brown. He was a popular and desireable artist at the height of his career and he was a bad boy which Whitney has always liked. I’ve no doubt Whitney probably dabbled in the lady pond but so what? In the end she made her choice and she chose to marry a man and make a family with him. She so loved Bobby that she wanted to have more of his children but sadly she miscarried several times. Bobby Brown is not the hated man you think he is. If America or rather AmeriKKKa had issue with Whitney marrying Bobby Brown it was only because some white man probably wanted her for himself.
And please stop with the accusations of Michael Jackson being gay. He was never gay and that was terrible what AmeriKKKa did to him. After his passing, that man said Michael never molested him when he was a child and that his father made him lie so they could extort money from Michael. That rocker Prince istn’t gay either, he has had two wives and lost two of his babies to genetic disease and sudden infant death syndrome. One of his ex-wives recently married singer Eric Benet and bore his child.
I dont believe Luther Vandross was gay either but suffered the same demons that Tyler Perry is dealing with now which is child molestation/rape and that’s why he had that eating disorder which ultimately took its toll on his organs.
The others you mentioned: Liberace, George Michael and Elton John are all openly gay and have never tried to hide it because society didn’t and still don’t care.
Whitney just partied like her peers and her partying became excessive when she married a party boy. After all these years the abuse just took its toll on her body and I bet you the coroner will rule her death a stroke or heart failure/cardiac arrest.
Drugs are poison and they will eventually claim your life. Drugs have been claiming lives for centuries. Opium, which cocaine is derived from, damn near destroyed China and it was introduced to them by the British. Drugs and alchohol are simply poisonous tools used to control the masses.
@ Dee
You are right. Phaedra took celeb clients for free to get her foot in the door. She makes her money off of low budget drug dealers. She is not nor has she ever been an entertainement attorney or family law attorney and she is not rich either. Hell, she couldn’t even get Sheree her child support and didn’t know that contractor wasn’t licensed.
Phaedra knew as much about Whitney and Bobby as she does about Prince William and his stick figure Kate Middleton. Nothing but what she reads in the paper.
…@Folksneed2shutthe… and@Kamalla; I’m sorry.
Wow! Miss Nic, you’re saying just because Whitney had issues with drugs that she didn’t know Christ? So, Christians don’t have struggles? Really? Such ignorance. As for Bobby being her downfall, Whitney was involved in drugs long before her relationship with Bobby. In an interview just this week, Sheryl Lee Ralph stated that not too long after Whitney entered the music industry, she was involved in drugs, but it was kept secret.
I’ve always thought that Bobby and Whitney’s relationship was one of true love and that Bobby was not her downfall. Whitney herself admitted in her interview with Diane Sawyer that she was responsible for her own actions.
A mother has lost a child, a child has lost a mother, and the world has lost a legend. My prayers and condolences go out to her family, especially Bobbi Kristina.
OMG!! Seriously everyone who is speaking of Whitney and Bobby and PHAEDRA like you know them personally needs to permanently take a moment of silence. NO ONE! and I MEAN NO ONE…knows who introduced Whitney to drugs, who she loved, what Bobby subjected her to or whether or not Phaedra prayed with her except WHITNEY! Anything else is mere speculation and makes you all sound like a bunch of idiots. Clearly from the pics Phaedra knew and represented Bobby. We don’t know how close that relationship was. As for Bobby never mentioning Phaedra…who the hell talks about their attorney? Think before you speak people. As for Whitney’s relationship with Christ or lack thereof, WE ALL fall short, WE ALL sin, Addiction, fornication, murder…all goes in the same bucket of sin. There is not one above another. If those of us who attend church waited to be without sin to claim to know Christ, believe in Christ and strive for a relationship with him then churches would be EMPTY! Whitney fell short, but I believe she made it clear she loved Jesus Christ in spite of her addiction. My dad was a recovering crack addict and he LOVED Christ and strived to fight the addiction. He worked and served in church as long as hard as any Deacon or Pastor. So that gives me comfort in knowing both my Daddy and Whitney rest in the arms of our Lord and Savior. Finally at peace from the struggle. Addiction is a SICKNESS. Recognize that and stop judging. NONE of us are perfect. Before you dig all in Whitney’s closet you need to clean out your own!!! (*drops mic and walks off*)
(*picks mic back up*) And evidence has already proven that this incident was NOT suicide. So stop the madness…It was unfortunate. Drugs may have been a factor, but eveidence shows Whitney had every intent of getting out of that tub!! So singing in my Whitney voice mocking the Black Eyed Peas SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!! Just SHUT UP! (*drops mic again and walks off*)
Damn, Ms. Parks needs to invest in some deodorant
EXACTLY, CNN DID NOT CALL MS PHAEDRA PARKS NOT ONE TIME TO SPEAK ON WHITNEY,B@##$ YOU REPRESENTED BOBBY NOT WHITNEY…B@#$ BE GONE WITH YOUR FUGLY AS@!!!! NEXT!!!!!
In resopnse to the person who spoke of not being able to have a relationship with God and use drugs. You are not up on your Bible knowledge.