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Ex-husband explains departure from Whitney Houston's funeral
Feb 19, 2012, 0:35 GMT
Newark, New Jersey - Whitney Houston's ex-husband, Bobby Brown, issued a statement Saturday in response to reports that he had left in a huff before the start of her funeral.
He said that he and his children had arrived by invitation of Houston's family, which organized the service at their home church in Newark, New Jersey.
'We were seated by security and then subsequently asked to move on three separate occasions,' Brown said in a statement published by USA Today. 'I fail to understand why security treated my family this way and continue to ask us and no one else to move.'
Brown, himself an R&B singer, has five children, including one daughter with Houston from their notoriously stormy marriage from 1993-2007. He alleged that security kept him from seeing daughter Bobbi-Kristina, who was with her mother's family.
'In light of the events, I gave a kiss to the casket of my ex-wife and departed, as I refused to create a scene,' Brown said. 'My children are completely distraught over the events.'
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