Bobbi Kristina Brown’s face was immersed in water and she was intoxicated with a mix of marijuana, alcohol, morphine and other drugs – a combination that caused pneumonia that led to her death, a coroner has said.
The 22-year-old daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown was found face-down and unresponsive in a bath in her suburban Atlanta home on January 31 last year, and died in hospice care on July 26.
Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office in Atlanta said it reviewed medical records, investigative files and other documents to determine how Bobbi Kristina died. Marijuana and alcohol were involved in the death, along with medications used for sedation or to treat anxiety, the statement said.
“The underlying cause of death is the condition which starts the downhill course of events leading to death and in this case is the immersion associated with drug intoxication,” the office said in the statement.
“Death was clearly not due to natural causes, but the medical examiner has not been able to determine whether death was due to intentional or accidental causes, and has therefore classified the manner of death as undetermined.”
A judge on Thursday had granted a request filed by media organisations to unseal the post-mortem report.
Bobbi Kristina’s death was similar to the way her mother died.
Whitney was found face-down in a foot of water in her bath at the Beverly Hilton Hotel just before the 2012 Grammy Awards. Authorities found prescription drugs in the suite and evidence of heart disease and cocaine in her body, but determined her death was an accidental drowning.
Bobbi Kristina was found in the home she shared with Nick Gordon, an orphan three years older whom Whitney had raised as her own. Bobbi Kristina referred to him as her husband.
She grew up in the shadow of her famous parents, appearing with them in 2005 on the TV reality show Being Bobby Brown and attending award shows with them.
Whitney and Bobby Brown were married for 15 years before their relationship ended in 2007. Bobbi Kristina was their only child together.
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