Source: Whitney Houston's daughter on life support and 'not brain dead'
The only child of late singer Whitney Houston has not been taken off life support or declared brain dead, a family source said on Thursday.
The information comes five days after Bobbi Kristina Brown was found face-down in a bathtub at her Georgia home.
The source, who asked not to be identified, said earlier reports that Brown (Houston’s daughter with singer Bobby Brown) had no brain activity were incorrect.
Few details about Bobbi Kristina Brown’s condition have been released.
Her family has said she was fighting for her life after being rushed to a hospital in the Atlanta suburb of Roswell on Saturday.
Police said they responded to Bobbi Kristina Brown’s home in reference to a drowning. Her partner and a friend found her unresponsive in the tub and performed CPR until help arrived, police said.
Houston, a six-time Grammy Award winner and actress who battled substance abuse, drowned in a hotel bathtub in Beverly Hills, California, on 11 February 2012.
Authorities said cocaine use and heart disease contributed to her death at age 48.
The late singer Whitney Houston (C) with husband Bobby Brown (R) and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown (L) at a premiere in 2004. Photos: Reuters
Her daughter is receiving treatment at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, according to CNN and other media outlets.
Family friend and gospel singer Kim Burrell told “Access Hollywood” this week that doctors had put the young woman in a medically induced coma to stop brain swelling.
Roswell police and an attorney for Bobby Brown have said they were investigating the circumstances that led to Bobbi Kristina Brown’s hospitalisation.
In a video interview over Skype with E! News on Wednesday, Jerod Brown asked people to “let the detectives do their jobs”and to stop speculating about what had happened to his cousin. - Reuters
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