Bobbi Kristina Brown remains on life support, but dad Bobby Brown says her condition is improving
Bobbi Kristina did not regain consciousness in a miracle recovery, despite her dad's shock statement she was "awake," a well-placed source said Monday.
The only child of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown remains comatose in a private rehabilitation hospital, the source said.
"His statements were not accurate. She remains unresponsive," the source told the Daily News.
Still, Bobby Brown doubled down Monday afternoon saying his daughter is improving — and that doctors believe the 22-year-old will survive for years to come.
"Bobbi Kristina's condition has changed since moving from Emory University Hospital and there has been improvement," his lawyer Christopher Brown said in a statement to The News.
"Doctors have indicated that she will have a long life," he said. "However, Bobbi Kristina is presently embarking on a rehabilitation process and the quality of her life will not be known for years to come."
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Bobby Brown photographed at Emory University Hospital on Feb. 5.
The lawyer did not specify whether or not doctors believe her longterm survival would require life support.
Bobby Brown's wife Alicia Etheredge-Brown also issued a statement Monday saying her husband was in "an emotional state" when he appeared to tell a crowd at the Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie, Texas, on Saturday night that his daughter was coherent.
"Bobbi is awake. She's watching me," he said onstage in a video obtained by TMZ.com.
"He is encouraged by the steps that Bobbi Kristina has made since her hospitalization on January 31, 2015. She has made it out of ICU, opened her eyes, and started a rehabilitation that will be long and hard," Etheredge-Brown said Monday.
"We will hold on to all the blessings God gives us to help her at this time, and we look forward to her having a relationship with her unborn sister as our family grows in love and faith," she said, confirming her pregnancy again.
Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unrespsonive in a Georgia home.
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"I just wish my husband could deal with this most painful and difficult time with people surrounding him who fully support and pray for Bobbi Kristina's recovery and only her recovery. Life is the most precious thing that we all have," she said.
The New Edition singer recently started making public appearances again after keeping an almost three-month vigil at Bobbi Kristina's bedside.
The only child of late music icon Whitney Houston was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub at her Atlanta-area residence on Jan. 31.
She was treated at Emory before her family moved her to the undisclosed rehabilitation center for continued monitoring of her medically induced coma.
She remains on a ventilator, TMZ.com reported Monday.
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Whitney Houston and daughter Bobbi Kristina at the Pre-Grammy party in 2011.
"She's in the exact same condition she was in when she went into the facility," an unidentified Houston family source told the website.
She's showing only "minimal" reaction in the form of an occasional eye blink, the source told TMZ.
Bobby Brown, 46, previously spoke onstage about his daughter's medical saga when he made his first public appearance at a Los Angeles soul food festival on April 11.
"I dunno what the hell I am going through right now, but I am giving it to God and letting him deal with it," he said.
"She's the same," grandmother Cissy Houston told WBLS FM in New York on March 25. "We've moved her now to a place for rehabilitation. But you know, there's still not a great deal of hope. We're praying."
