A distraught Bobby Brown cancelled his Friday night performance at the Charleston Jam Fest Concert in Charleston, S.C. hours after the release of his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown's autopsy results. The 22-year-old inspiring singer died in July from a combination of drowning and drugs.
Posters outside the North Charleston Coliseum announced Brown cancelled last minute "due to illness." Other artists scheduled to perform included Keith Sweat, Jagged Edge and 112.
"Bobby Brown will not be performing due to illness," the posters read. "Refund requests must be prior to entry only!"
The Superior Court of Fulton County lifted the order sealing Bobbi Kristina's autopsy results following a motion filed by TEGNA Media, the parent company of Atlanta's WXIA-TV news station, requesting the release of the results and other documents and reports related to her death. The coroner's report came on March 4, which would have been Bobbi Kristina's 23rd birthday.
The report revealed that the daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston died as result of "Lobar pneumonia" due to a combination of drugs and drowning. She was found on Jan. 31 face down in her bathtub in her north Atlanta home and slipped into a coma, never to recover.
The toxicology report showed that Bobbi Kristina had marijuana, alcohol, a "cocaine-related substance," sedative, anti-anxiety medications and morphine in her system. It was undermined whether the morphine came from heroin use. Her time submerged in the water plus the mix of drugs, pneumonia and brain damage were the immediate results causing her death.
The 47-year-old singer voiced his displeasure with the court releasing the results and other items related to his daughter's death before any criminal charges had been filed.
"First and foremost, 23 years ago today, Bobbi Kristina was born," Bobby said in a statement. "Krissy will always live in my heart and soul. I love my baby girl. For news affiliates to seek and obtain my daughter's autopsy report, before anyone has been brought to justice for her death is mind blowing to me. Please pray for my family."
His lawyer Christopher Brown added his own statement pertaining to the release.
"Yesterday we were informed that two news affiliates were granted access to the autopsy of Bobbi Kristina Brown. While this action is unsettling, we will continue in our efforts in the civil lawsuit and the criminal investigation," he stated. "Bobby Brown has had to be strong and mourn his loved ones in a fashion that is foreign to most people. So public, so raw, with apparently no end in sight. Hopefully public indictments and prosecution will lead to private healing and closure for Bobby Brown and his family."
Brown's court-appointed conservator filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Brown's boyfriend Nick Gordon in June, shortly before her death. The suit alleges that Gordon abused his girlfriend and stole "in excess of $11,000 from Brown's bank account while she was in the hospital." It also claims that Gordon gave Brown a toxic cocktail and placed her face-down in the bathtub, causing her irreparable brain damage.
Bobby Brown is scheduled to perform next at Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore on Saturday, March 12.
