Bobbi Kristina Brown

Bobbi Kristina Brown Feels Used in Wake of Whitney Houston's Death

Bobbi Kristina Brown reportedly feels like her family is using her in the wake of her mother, Whitney Houston's death. Why is it she's feeling used? Does it involve money?

According to a report from Hollywood Life, it doesn't sound like money is the culprit at this point. The 18-year-old apparently feels like she's being used as a sort of 'bargaining chip' in a long time family feud.

Tensions are quickly on the rise between Whitney's ex-husband Bobby Brown and the rest of the family. A source says her devastated daughter "feels she is being used as a tool to get family members to take sides."

Trust issues are playing a major role in what is no doubt best for Bobbi Kristina at this point in time. Her mom's family, including grandmother Cissy Houston, wants her to enter rehab immediately. They feel that probable ongoing drug use combined with the tragedy they are all still experiencing could lead her down the very same path as her mom. Because of the feud, however, the poor kid doesn't know which side she should believe--her dad or her mom's family.

The source says that talk of rehab to Bobbi Kristina right now is "going in one ear and out the other, because she really is having some major trust issues."

It seems Whitney Houston was the only person her daughter trusted. It is said she has no true friends her own age. That means she is relying on family members to help her through this horrible time, but she doesn't really trust any of them because she feels used.

What do you think will become of Bobbi Kristina Brown? Is she headed for her mother's tragic fate? Will Bobby Brown grow up himself and become the father she needs? Or will Cissy Houston and the rest of Whitney's family succeed at getting her into rehab and charting the course for the rest of her life.

This poor girl needs prayers, love, and some serious professional help. Do you think she will get what it takes to save her from an inevitable downfall?

Whitney Houston's Daughter Is Not the Story

Media coverage surrounding the death of the pop star and singing sensation Whitney Houston could be described, at best, as schizophrenic. One moment a nation weeps for a lost and beloved singing legend; the next they decry her drug abuse, poor choice of marital partner and public misbehavior. If there were a trend, it seems to be: first comes emotion, then moralizing and judgment; as if the narrative of her life and death could fit neatly into a headline, as if anyone who is adding to the fray -- myself included, knows diddly-squat about the real Whitney Houston.

Nevertheless, the insatiable hunger for a full account of the events leading to and following her apparent submersion in a bathtub has been fed and exploited by the media, day by day, detail by detail, as a country obsessed with the inner lives of celebrities -- the sordid "reality" of their daily living -- has feasted upon a salacious spread of rumor and fact as a way, perhaps, of coping with their grief. In the week since Houston was found dead in her Beverly Hilton hotel room, the attention has been so consistent and relentless, even my mother, a self-described CNN junkie, wondered, "Is this getting more attention than Michael Jackson's death?"

Google "Whitney Houston funeral" and no fewer than ten thousand articles turn up, from amateur blogs to the New York Times, reporting, repeating and commenting on how this all happened, what it all means and the finer points of her legacy. But in the vacuum left by her snuffed out star, the media has lost its grip on itself. In our desperation to get out the "news" and, before anyone else does -- a melee of civilian and professional journalists have poured forth unsolicited material that proves there are no boundaries whatsoever when it comes to celebrity reporting. And while this boundlessness has included much legitimate reporting, it has also highlighted a complete absence of ethics where the welfare of its subjects are concerned.

The most egregious example of bottom feeding on the reporting boon came the day after Houston's funeral courtesy of Newsweek's online sister site, The Daily Beast: "Was Whitney's Daughter Found Getting High?" went the subject line of their Feb. 19 email blast. The news "exclusive" described in suspenseful narrative style how Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina apparently disappeared after her mother's funeral and according to "two sources close to the family" (read: anonymous and therefore, unverifiable) that equals a drug problem the public should know about.

Heaven forbid Newsweek and Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown's children find themselves subjected to such unfair and inappropriate scrutiny the day after her funeral.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danielle-berrin/whitney-houston-media_b_1291197.html