BEVERLY HILLS, California — A press conference promoting BET's upcoming TV movie, "The Bobby Brown Story," came to a screeching halt Friday when reporters asked the singer about reports of a 2003 911 call that involved a domestic violence incident with his then-wife Whitney Houston.
Brown, appearing with the stars of the film at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, denied any violence involving Houston, who died in 2012 and to whom he was married from 1992 to 2007.
"There was no violent incidents between me and Whitney. … You're mistaken. You're completely wrong," he said in response to a reporter's question.
The room quieted before another reporter said the 911 call, which led to a domestic violence complaint and a misdemeanor battery charge against Brown, is part of the public record.
Brown simply responded: "The public record is wrong."
"The Bobby Brown Story" (Sept. 4 and 5, 9 EDT/PDT) details the life of the New Edition singer and solo performer and stars Woody McClain as Brown and Gabrielle Dennis as Houston.
Earlier in the panel, Brown said he wasn't bothered being in the Beverly Hilton, the hotel where Houston died.
"The spirit of my ex-wife is probably still here. (It) just feels good to be here and to promote this movie and to be able to smile to be here with my wife and kids," he said. "We just came from Hawaii and this has been a beautiful time, so being here is just another notch."
He said the film is an opportunity to set the record straight on stories that he says are false.
"What people don't understand is that the stories that's been told about me are untrue. We're just correcting everything the press has believed about me and I'm able to tell my story from what I know, my truth," he said. "That's the basic reason we did this film was to be able to tell my side of the story and that's what's going to happen, that's what you're going to see."
Brown rejected a question about scandals in his life, saying, "I don't think there's juicy scandals, I think there's just the life that I've lived. In my life, I've been through things, ups and downs and some of the things I'm not proud of. ... So, scandals? There's no scandals. There's just juicy."
Brown said the most difficult aspect of the film involved scenes with his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, who died in 2015.
"I think the hardest parts were the scenes with my daughter. (I'm) still going through missing her and not having her here. I wasn’t able to sit through the visual part, them filming that. It was just hard," he said.
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