Bobby Brown broke his silence after the demise of his son, 28-year-old Bobby Brown Jr., 5 years after dropping daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown in July 2015.

“Please preserve my household in your prayers at the moment,” the musician, 51, mentioned in an announcement to Us Weekly on Thursday, November 19. “Shedding my son at this level in our lives has devastated my household. There aren’t any phrases to clarify the ache.”

Bobby Jr. was discovered lifeless in his Los Angeles residence on Wednesday, November 18, TMZ reported. At some point later, the publication mentioned that he had skilled flu-like signs earlier than his demise, however a supply mentioned that Bobby Jr. didn’t have COVID-19. The aspiring musician was one of Bobby’s seven kids. The former New Version member shared Bobby Jr. with ex-girlfriend Kim Ward, with whom he had an on-and-off relationship for 11 years.

Landon Brown took to Instagram on Wednesday after the information broke and confirmed Bobby Jr. passing. “I really like you perpetually King,” he captioned a photograph of his brother. His girlfriend, Anna Reed, shared a heartfelt tribute on Thursday.

“The heavens gained an angel, however I misplaced my soul mate,” she wrote on Twitter.

Bobby Jr.’s half-sister, Bobbi Kristina, was discovered unresponsive in a bath at her Atlanta residence in January 2015. She was positioned on hospice care and in a medically induced coma till she died six months later, at 22 years previous. Bobby shared his later daughter together with his ex-wife, Whitney Houston. Bobby advised Us Weekly in February 2018 that he’ll at all times honor his daughter’s legacy.

“She was a stupendous younger girl,” he mentioned on the time. “And what she wished to do along with her life, I want everyone may have seen. Music, leisure. She was higher than me. She was higher than her mom.”

Bobby added, “Her presence is at all times round me. That’s my child. There isn’t a means she may disappear from me.”