Whitney Houston's daughter: 'I can always feel her'By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 11:14 PM EDT, Sun March 11, 2012
Bobbi Kristina Brown arrives at a private viewing for her mother, Whitney Houston, on February 17 in Newark, New Jersey.STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: Houston's sister-in-law says the late singer was "chasing a dream"
NEW: She and Bobbi Kristina Brown, Houston's only child, speak to Oprah Winfrey
Brown says she can still hear her mother's voice and and feel her spirit sometimes
Houston, 48, died in her Beverly Hills hotel room last month
[[CNN) -- Whitney Houston's only child opened up Sunday about her late mother in her first interview since the singer's death last month.
Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19, told Oprah Winfrey she can still hear her mother's voice sometimes and feel her spirit, urging her to "keep moving."
"She's always with me. I can always feel her," Brown said during the interview that aired on Winfrey's network, OWN.
In the same show, Winfrey also spoke to Houston's sister-in-law and friend, Patricia Houston, and her brother, Gary Houston.
Houston, 48, died February 11 in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the day before the music industry gathered for the annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
The famed singer won six Grammys and sold 170 million albums, singles and videos during her career. But in recent years, her accomplishments were overshadowed by her struggles with drug addiction.
When asked whether she feared drugs would one day take her friend, Patricia Houston told Winfrey she "would be kidding" to say otherwise. "The handwriting was kind of on the wall."
Recently, she said, she observed Houston "chasing a dream, looking for love in all the wrong places."
Houston was married to singer Bobby Brown from 1992 until 2007. Bobbi Kristina was born in 1993.
"I'm her daughter. I gotta keep moving. I gotta carry on her legacy ... I still have a voice," Brown told Winfrey.
Houston's daughter was interviewed briefly by Beverly Hills police the day her mother died, but she was too distraught to offer helpful information, sources have said.
Whitney Houston toxicology reports pending
She was taken twice to a Los Angeles hospital briefly after her mother's death, a source close to the family said last month.
The grief comes in waves still, Brown said, and sometimes it doesn't seem real that her mother is gone.
"I'm getting through it. I'm doing as good as I possibly can," she said. "Just trying to keep going."
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