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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGrammy winner Bobby Brown just revealed a Catholic priest tried to molest him at age 10, and he believes the secret trauma was the reason behind his decades of drug\/alcohol abuse and brushes with the law<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
‘One of the priests tried to molest me. He tried to touch my private parts…At that time, I was a young boy. I didn’t know what sexual boundaries were. I just knew I didn’t like being touched. Some things are hard to forget.’<\/p>\n
Brown – who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 32 – fought back and eventually returned to the Orchard Park Projects where he grew up as one of eight children in Boston’s rough Roxbury neighborhood.<\/p>\n
‘I had tucked it down so deep into my soul that I didn’t think that I would talk about it again,’ the My Prerogative hitmaker told\u00a0People\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
‘But talking about it really helped me get through a lot of other things that had been bothering me especially that. That really, really bothered me as a child. And as a grown adult, I think it was part of the reason I did things, other things – drugs, alcohol, why I abused myself. But being able to talk about it and get it out helps a lot.’<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe 53-year-old R&B singer – who claims he hasn’t touched a narcotic in 20 years – was sent to a religious facility by social services after witnessing his mother Carole (L) being beaten and arrested by police<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBobby recalled in his upcoming A&E Biography docuseries:\u00a0‘It wasn’t a very nice place to be for a child.\u00a0One of the priests tried to molest me. He tried to touch my private parts…At that time, I was a young boy. I didn’t know what sexual boundaries were. I just knew I didn’t like being touched. Some things are hard to forget’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nRough upbringing: Brown – who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 32 – fought back and eventually returned to the Orchard Park Projects where he grew up as one of eight children in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
At age 12, Bobby co-founded the boyband New Edition in 1981 before going solo to much success in the late eighties and nineties where he was a pioneer in the new jack swing movement.<\/p>\n
Brown wants to be a good example for his three children – son Cassius, nearly 13; daughter Bodhi, 6; and daughter Hendrix, 5 – with his manager-turned-second wife Alicia Etheredge-Brown.<\/p>\n
‘We look at our children now going, “Wow! He was Cassius’ age when he saw that, witnessed that, had to endure that,”‘ the biracial 46-year-old\u00a0marveled.<\/p>\n
‘And so, yeah, that perspective is interesting as well.’<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nThe My Prerogative hitmaker told People on Tuesday: ‘That really, really bothered me as a child. And as a grown adult, I think it was part of the reason I did things, other things – drugs, alcohol, why I abused myself. But being able to talk about it and get it out helps a lot’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nChild star: At age 12, Bobby co-founded the boyband New Edition in 1981 before going solo to much success in the late eighties and nineties where he was a pioneer in the new jack swing movement (pictured in 1983)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMarch 21 family portrait: Brown wants to be a good example for his three children – son Cassius, nearly 13; daughter Bodhi, 6; and daughter Hendrix, 5 – with his manager-turned-second wife Alicia Etheredge-Brown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nThe biracial 46-year-old (R) marveled:\u00a0‘We look at our children now going, “Wow! He was Cassius’ age when he saw that, witnessed that, had to endure that”‘<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Masked Singer Crab’s new docuseries covers his turbulent 14-year marriage to the late, great R&B belter Whitney Houston.<\/p>\n
Bobby insists the seven-time Grammy winner – who passed away, age 48, from from an accidental overdose in 2012 – would be alive today had they not divorced in 2007.<\/p>\n
Three years later, Brown and Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina died, age 22, in an eerily similar way (unconscious in the bath) following a six-month medically-induced coma.<\/p>\n
And in 2020, the Crank Yankers guest star’s son Bobby Jr. (with ex-girlfriend Kim Ward) was found dead, age 28, in his LA apartment after an overdose of alcohol, cocaine, and fentanyl.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘She’d be alive today had we not divorced’: The Masked Singer Crab’s new docuseries covers his turbulent 14-year marriage to the late, great R&B belter Whitney Houston (R)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nRIP: Three years later, Brown and Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina died, age 22, in an eerily similar way (unconscious in the bath) following a six-month medically-induced coma<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nRIP: And in 2020, the Crank Yankers guest star’s son Bobby Jr. (with ex-girlfriend Kim Ward) was found dead, age 28, in his LA apartment after an overdose of alcohol, cocaine, and fentanyl<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nBobby said: ‘I always see them at beaches or in fields. They’re running away, but they’re laughing. And they’re always together. I didn’t have many dreams about Bobbi Kris before Bobby Jr. died. But then all of a sudden – floods of dreams…That’s enough for a father to feel like God has them’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
‘I always see them at beaches or in fields,’ Bobby\u00a0said.<\/p>\n
‘They’re running away, but they’re laughing. And they’re always together. I didn’t have many dreams about Bobbi Kris before Bobby Jr. died. But then all of a sudden – floods of dreams…That’s enough for a father to feel like God has them.’<\/p>\n
Brown still has two older children – son Landon, 35; and daughter La’Princia, 31 – from his relationships with Melika Williams and Kim Ward.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the A Very Boy Band Holiday star attended the premiere of his two-part docu-series Biography: Bobby Brown, which starts streaming May 30 on A&E.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nStarts streaming May 30 on A&E! On Tuesday, Brown (2-L) attended the premiere of his two-part docu-series Biography: Bobby Brown
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