Bobbi Kristina Brown’s ex-fiancé Nick Gordon‘s cause of death has been revealed.
According to his autopsy and toxicology report obtained by TMZ, Gordon died of heroin toxicity with the manner of death officially deemed accidental.
Nick Gordon, who was 30 at the time of his death, was suspected to have overdosed on New Year’s Day in Florida.
In a 911 dispatch call at the time of Gordon’s death, an operator is heard saying, “Black stuff is coming out of his mouth and he was not breathing.”
Gordon was found unresponsive and in cardiac arrest. He was administered Nacan and hospitalized for seven hours before he died.
An orphan, Gordon was 12 years old when famous Whitney Houston brought him home, following her divorce with her husband, Bobby Brown in 2007. She raised Gordon and her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown together.
However, Houston neither legally adopted Gordon nor included him in her will. He called Houston, ‘Mom,’ and had a tattoo of the singer’s face on his arm. He also called Bobbi his little sister for a long time. It was only after Houston‘s death, in 2012, that the two got engaged and made their romantic relationship public.
Bobbi Kristina Brown’s death controversy
Nick Gordon, a prolific drug user was engaged to Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. In January 2015, Gordon and a friend found Kristina Brown face down and unconscious in the bathtub of her Georgia home following a suspected drug overdose. Brown aged 22, at the time suffered irreversible brain damage and remained unresponsive, and died on July 26, 2015.
Gordon was found legally responsible for Bobbi‘s death in a civil case and in 2016 but no criminal charges were filed against him. However, he was ordered to pay her estate $36 million.