Oprah Winfrey talks with Patricia Houston and Gary Houston, sister-in-law and brother of the late singer Whitney Houston, during an interview in Atlanta, Georgia
At the end of the day this is a young girl that has just lost her mother. The press has been beastly and she has been accused of falling her mother’s downward spiral into drug addiction. For a time it was said that Bobbi Kristina had slipped away from the funeral in order to have her fix. Later on her grandmother and friends disputed these sensationalist accounts. Now we hear that Whitney Houston’s only child is vowing to protect her mother’s legacy by changing her surname from that of Bobby Brown to her mother’s. She also states that she feels a compulsion to continue her mother’s destiny. The critics are not too sure that she will be able to mix with one of the greatest divas of all time.
Celebrity children who are burdened with expectations
There is no guarantee that a talented parent is going to produce children who are anywhere as good as them. In the case of Whitney Houston, the task is even harder given the fact that there are pretty much no musicians who can quite capture that voice. At the best of times Bobbi Kristina is just another celebrity child who is being burdened by the overwhelming charisma and talent of their parents. It is almost certain that she will have to work very hard indeed to get any sort of recognition. Already the skeptics are saying that her only legacy will be a troubled teenage background.
It is rather encouraging that Whitney Houston chose to leave everything to her daughter. In a will that was signed way back in the period of her marriage to Bobby, the star made it known that she was leaving everything to her only child. At that time it was estimated that she was worth at least $200 million. By the time of her death, Bobbi Kristina was being unofficially encouraged to expect a modest fortune of about $6 million which would be paid out in installments. It is not yet clear whether she will get a cut of the royalties.
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