Apparently TV One’s upcoming biopic on Bobbi Kristina may run into some legal problems.
According to Page Six, Bobby Brown has slapped the network with a lawsuit, accusing it of defamation.
Page Six writes:
The project, set to hit TV One next month, includes scenes of Brown being “violate [sic] towards Houston,” and suggests Brown “does not love his daughter [and is not] committed to his daughter,” Bobby claims in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.
The “defamatory and untrue” film tries to profit off Brown’s pain, insists the “My Prerogative” singer, who denies being abusive to his family.
Bobbi Kristina was just 22-years-old when she was found facedown in a bathtub by her former boyfriend Nick Gordon. She spent six months in a coma before her family removed her from a ventilator.
Gordon was not criminally charged in Bobbi Kristina’s death, but last year a Georgia civil judge found him legally responsible and slapped him with a $36 million judgment after Brown filed a wrongful death suit against him.
Brown is played in his daughter’s biopic by Hassan Jonson as a “hard drug user” who neglects his fatherly duties after Houston’s 2012 death, in which she was also found unconscious in a bathtub.
Producers Tracey Baker-Simmons and Wanda Shelley unfairly took advantage of their previous work with Brown to make the movie, he charges.
The pair used information from a 2004 Bravo TV reality show, “Being Bobby Brown,” without the crooner’s permission, he alleges in court papers.
Brown is also seeking $1 million damages from the biopic’s production companies, TV One LLC, Simmons Shelley entertainment, and their affiliates. Baker-Simmons and Shelley couldn’t be reached.
I see these networks are getting desperate with these biopics. Bobbi Kris doesn’t need one. TV One should let her rest in peace.
This whole situation is a mess. I still can’t believe they made a biopic about her and did it this quick. All I can do is shake my head.
smh TV One shouldn’t even have made this movie to begin with.