It's impossible to make sense of why a beautiful, beloved, well-off 21-year-old with a blossoming music career would set off on the same self-destructive path that claimed her mother's life, but one insider says those who know Bobbi best had long feared for her health and well-being.
The unidentified insider adds that the death of Whitney Houston was the beginning of the end for Bobbi, as they'd shared an unusually close bond since she was a child.
"Whitney shared too much information about the marriage with Bobbi. It made Bobbi gravitate more toward Whitney's feelings and that's why she grew to resent Bobby."
The source says Bobby and Whitney's troubled marriage profoundly influenced the relationship between Bobbi and Nick.
"In Bobbi's mind, [she and Gordon] were Bonnie and Clyde against the world, high and happy, eerily similar to the relationship Whitney had with Bobbi. For Bobbi, that was the ultimate utopia. She wanted what her mother had, because she felt that was the norm."
As for the news that Bobbi is not going to make it, the insider says doctors informed her family that the prognosis was grim from the start.
"There was always a very small chance that she would make it," says the source. "She would have needed a caretaker and wouldn't have been able to function as a normal adult."
