Whitney Houston`s Death Fueled Bobbi Kristina`s Drug Abuse.
NICK GORDON, BOBBI KRISTINA`S BOYFRIEND: Doc, please help me see Krissi.</s>DR. PHIL, TV HOST: We`re going to get you cleaned up first, right?</s>GORDON: Get to the point. Get to the point, I`m getting frustrated.</s>DR. PHIL: You`re getting anxious.</s>GORDON: Yeah.</s>DR. PHIL: I understand --</s>GORDON: I do respect him.</s>DR. PHIL: You have two things you have to do. You have to get detoxed.</s>GORDON: I am detoxed.</s>DR. PHIL: No, you`re not. You`re drunk and you`re on drugs.</s>GORDON: No, I`m drunk.</s>PINSKY: That was Nick Gordon on Dr. Phil one year ago. Now he`s speaking about Bobbi Kristina Brown`s drug abuse and how, he says, it escalated after her mother, Whitney Houston, died. Take a look.</s>MCGRAW: Some photoss surfaced of Krissi smoking out of a bong and snorting cocaine in 2011. Did she have a drug problem?</s>GORDON: Krissi?</s>DR. PHIL: Yeah.</s>GORDON: Yeah.</s>DR. PHIL: Did you ever see her do drugs while her mother was alive?</s>GORDON: Socially, yeah.</s>DR. PHIL: Like what drugs?</s>GORDON: Oh --</s>DR. PHIL: And by socially you mean at a party or something?</s>GORDON: Yeah, maybe smoke a little bit.</s>DR. PHIL: Did you do it with her?</s>GORDON: Smoke?</s>DR. PHIL: Uh-huh.</s>GORDON: Yeah.</s>DR. PHIL: But then she started doing other drugs at some point?</s>GORDON: Yeah. It got really bad after Whitney passed away. It`s unfortunate but that`s how at that time -- at that time, that`s kind of the only way we knew how to deal with what happened.</s>PINSKY: The entire interview airs this Thursday and Friday on Dr. Phil. A reminder that Bobbi Kristina had died last July, she`d been in a coma for months before they finally backed off her life support. Back with Christina, Renee, and Jason. Now, Renee, I look at Nick Gordon there, he looks a lot better, a lot better. He`s been in recovery, well Jason, I`ll talk about how much recovery but he looks better, at least.</s>BARGH: Yeah, he does but this guy has been through absolute hell and back.</s>PINSKY: Did you interview with Nick or Dr. Phil?</s>BARGH: Dr. Phil, I spoke to Dr. Phil. But actually knew -- I met Nick and I met Krissi and Whitney before Whitney died. I knew them when they were actually acting like they were brother and sister. So it came full circle and kind of weird later a couple years down the track when he is now her husband and all of that. But, yeah, he does talk about the fact that he was there and his involvement in the night that Whitney died and then again the argument and everything that happened the night that Krissi was found.</s>PINSKY: He tells Phil all this?</s>BARGH: Yes.</s>PINSKY: Does he talk about her heavy drug use too?</s>BARGH: Yeah, I think he is going to go into that. He spoke about the fact that Krissy Bobbi was doing it before her mother passed socially but things got bad after the fact.</s>PINSKY: To get pills. It`s pills pill, that somebody gave her pills because she was anxious because she was miserable.</s>BARGH: Yeah.</s>PINSKY: He also told Dr. Phil what drugs he was using when they last met last year during that interview. Take a look.</s>DR. PHIL: When I saw you in Atlanta, what were you on then? I know you were drinking a lot. What else were you on at the time?</s>GORDON: Xanax.</s>DR. PHIL: Why were you drinking so much at that time?</s>GORDON: I was drinking so much at the time because I could not deal with what was happening to Krissi. It mentally broke me, you know? That`s the lowest point in my life right there.</s>PINSKY: If you recall when I was talking about Prince, I was talking about the addition of benzodiazepines and sleep medications, Xanax is one of the ones that`s added in that becomes lethal when added to an opiate. Jason, he apparently got eight weeks of treatment or six weeks of treatment.</s>WAHLER: That`s my understanding.</s>PINSKY: He needs a lot more than that?</s>WAHLER: No, he`s still not to have -- but able to have the active disease arrested in that short amount of time.</s>PINSKY: Do you think he`s in recovery?</s>WAHLER: I don`t know. He`s still -- potentially. I mean, I can`t judge it after not seeing him and talking to him. He looks completely better than the situation he was in in that interview. Of course, the previous one you could tell he was intoxicated and barely even present.</s>PINSKY: Look. Let`s see, here`s a minute of some tape of him speaking to Dr. Phil about what he did in treatment. Let`s see if there`s anything here. Go.</s>DR. PHIL: I`m told that you really leaned into it when you were there.</s>GORDON: Yeah, and rehab was something I needed and I`m thankful that I got that opportunity.</s>PINSKY: So he embraced treatment. The question, Jason though, did he continue as the on going care that it makes the whole the difference?</s>WAHLER: Well, that`s the first thing that people needs to understand. It`s not hard to get sober, it`s hard to say sober. The focus comes in after care. You know, and that`s where the rubber hits the road after you get sober for initial 30 days when you`re contained and your in that environment it`s not hard to obtain sobriety when you`re in surveillance 24/7, it`s when you come out, it`s like being thrown in the four parted ways and guess which way to go. So your access comes back, it`s like, you know, the society today is totally different than it was 30 years ago.</s>PINSKY: And they need that ongoing daily connection to recovering people and sometimes the therapist and whatever it might be. But it`s something that takes years to fully treat.</s>WAHLER: Well they need that to be able to buy into their recovery. I think in today society you have to see there`s a light at the end of the tunnel that you can grasp on to actually be motivated. If it`s not motivating you have to go the other way.</s>PINSKY: We have to go. Thank you. Thank you panel. Excellent job, appreciate it. I appreciate you guys newbies panel. We appreciate being --</s>WAHLER: . a very good job</s>PINSKY: We`ll be back. DVR, you can watch it any time. Thank you for watching. NANCY GRACE up next. END