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"When a slew of Whitney Houston&amp;apos;s high-profile friends and family members pay their respects at a private funeral service at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, NJ Saturday, there could be some underlying tension between Houston&amp;apos;s relatives and Bobby Brown, the late star&amp;apos;s ex-husband.\r\n&amp;quot;There are family members who felt Bobby drove Whitney into drugs,&amp;quot; one source tells Us Weekly. &amp;quot;But now Bobby is clean and Whitney has unfortunately passed. So there&amp;apos;s resentment.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nDespite a rehab stint in May 2011 for drugs and alcohol, Houston, 48, was &amp;quot;battling her addictions until the end,&amp;quot; a source tells Us of the Grammy winner, who was found dead in the bathtub at the Beverly Hilton last Saturday.  In a 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Houston said she went from being a &amp;quot;light&amp;quot; drug user to a &amp;quot;heavy&amp;quot; one over the course of her 15 year marriage to Brown, 43. &amp;quot;I wasn&amp;apos;t getting high by myself. It was me and him together.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe &amp;quot;Saving All My Love for You&amp;quot; singer even admitted to freebasing cocaine  with her husband, father to daughter Bobbi Kristina, 18.\r\nDespite that rough history, the source says, &amp;quot;he and Whitney had a solid relationship even with the separation and divorce.&amp;quot;\r\nAnd contrary to rumors that Houston&amp;apos;s family had prevented Brown from seeing Bobbi Kristina following Houston&amp;apos;s death, &amp;quot;He was involved in choices for Bobbi, so that seems farfetched that they were keeping her from him. He has seen his daughter.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nAs he preps for his ex&amp;apos;s funeral (to be attended by Kevin Costner, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys, Brandy and brother Ray J, mentor Clive Davis, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Kahn and others), &amp;quot;Bobby is very shaken up,&amp;quot; the source says.\r\nIn concert with band New Edition in Maryland Thursday night, Brown paid another onstage tribute to Houston.\r\n&amp;quot;I&amp;apos;d like to say thank you for your prayers . . .I&amp;apos;d like to say thank you. Period. I&amp;apos;m gonna throw two up for Whitney,&amp;quot; he told the crowd. &amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s my love Life is life. You have to move on sometimes. I love her like I love God.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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