Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22 and the only child of late singer Whitney Houston, died on Sunday about six months after she was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in the suburban Atlanta townhome, her family said in a statement.
"Bobbi Kristina Brown passed away July 26, 2015, surrounded by her family. She is finally at peace in the arms of God. We want to again thank everyone for their tremendous amount of love and support during these last few months," Kristen Foster, a representative for the Houston family, said Sunday.
Police said she was found drowned on Jan. 31 in the suburban Atlanta townhome she shared with Nick Gordon, the man she called her husband.
Bobbi Kristina's accident drew eerie parallels with the death of her megastar mother, who was found face-down in a bathtub in a Los Angeles hotel on Feb. 11, 2012, on the eve of the Grammy Awards.
Bobby Brown, the father of Bobbi Kristina Brown who had a bad-boy image, is also a famous R&B singer who has a problem of substance overdose.
Bobbi Kristina appeared alongside both parents in 2005 on the Bravo reality show "Being Bobby Brown" which captured her parents fighting, swearing and appearing in court. Media reports said it revealed that Brown was "even more vulgar than the tabloids suggest" and managed "to rob Houston of any last shreds of dignity."
After their divorce in 2007, Houston kept custody of Bobbi Kristina and raised her alongside Gordon, an orphan three years older than her daughter. She never formally adopted him or included him in the will, but both teenagers called her "mom".
Bobbi Kristina, the sole heir of her mother's estate, told Oprah Winfrey shortly after her mother's death in 2012 that she wanted to carry on her mother's legacy by singing, acting and dancing.
Although she had attended award shows and appeared on red carpets with her mother and father, performed a duet with her mother in 2009, singing "My Love Is Your Love" in New York's Central Park, and became social media sensation, sending more than 11,000 tweets and attracting 164,000 followers, her career never really took off.
Actor and producer Tyler Perry once said she had a future as an actress after her debut on his TV show "For Better or Worse" in 2012, but she only appeared in one episode. Her image mostly showed up in the "self" she posted online besides two ill-fated reality TV shows and the occasional paparazzi video.
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