Bobby Brown refused to take the fall for Whitney Houston’s drug-fueled troubles that ultimately ended in the pop diva’s sad demise.
The “Greatest Love of All” songstress drowned in a hotel bathtub on Feb. 11 with cocaine in her system — and ex-hubby Brown said it’s not his fault that Houston struggled with drugs.
“I didn’t get high before I met Whitney,” Brown told NBC’s “Today” in an interview that’ll air Wednesday and Thursday.
Then Brown — in his first interview since Houston’s death — backtracked slightly, and said he wasn’t a habitual drug user before marrying Whitney in 1992.
“I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn’t the one that got Whitney on drugs at all,” said Brown.
The bad boy ex-husband said he last saw Houston, 48, two weeks before her passing — and she looked great.
“She had this, this glow about her that was just, you know, incredible,” he said. “You know, and I’m, I’m saying to myself, you know, `She must be, she must be doing’ really well,’ because she looked really well.”
He added: “It was just, you know, she just looked like she was in a good place.”
Brown claims he’s been sober for seven years.
The drug connection to Houston’s passing was an emotional blow to Brown.
“I was hurt. I was hurt… because, you know, me being off of narcotics for the last seven years, I felt that she was, you know, I didn’t know she was struggling with it still,” he said.
“But at the same time, you know– listen, it’s a hard fight. It’s a hard fight to, you know, maintain sobriety that way.”