Trouble at Bobbi Kristina’s funeral

The ongoing tensions between the families of the late megastar Whitney Houston and ex-husband, R&B singer Bobby Brown, erupted during a funeral service for their daughter, Bobbi Kristina.

Bobbi Kristina died in hospice care on July 26, about six months after she was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her Atlanta townhouse.

A long-standing rift between the families of the young woman’s famous mother and father broke out into the open at a memorial service being held for Bobbi Kristina at the St James United Methodist Church in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Leolah Brown, the sister of Bobby Brown, walked out of the church and spoke to reporters gathered outside.

She said she was angry because Pat Houston was speaking at the funeral. Pat Houston is the sister-in-law and former manager for the late Whitney Houston.

“I told her that Whitney is going to haunt her from the grave,” Leolah Brown told reporters. She also suggested that the feud between the Houstons and the Browns was far from over.

“It’s just getting started,” she said. Bobbi Kristina’s death was grimly similar to the way her megastar mother died three years ago.

Bobbi Kristina was found in the home she shared with Nick Gordon, an orphan three years older, whom Houston had raised as her own. Bobbi Kristina referred to him as her husband. A police report earlier this year described the incident as a drowning, and authorities are investigating her death.

Bobbi Kristina Brown was the only child of Houston and Brown and was raised in the shadow of her famous parents’ hugely public life.

She appeared alongside the couple in 2005 on the reality show Being Bobby Brown, which showed her parents fighting, swearing and making court appearances. She was the sole heir of her mother’s estate and told Oprah Winfrey shortly after her mother’s death in 2012 that she wanted to carry on Houston’s legacy by singing, acting and dancing. But her career never took off.