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Vivica A. Fox is proud of the upcoming TV One biopic that chronicles the life of the late Bobbi Kristina Brown.

Fox, who co-stars in Bobbi Kristina, sat down with Et to talk about the film and her friendship with Whitney Houston.

“I think a lot of people are thinking that we’re going to focus on things that are negative but we didn’t,” Fox told Et’s Kevin Frazier. “We absolutely approached this with love and respect.”

Directed by Taye Hodges, the biopic stars newcomer Joy Rovaris as Bobbi Kristina and Nadji Jeter as her boyfriend, Nick Gordon. Hassan Johnson plays Bobby Brown, and Demetria McKinney plays Whitney Houston. Fox signed on to play Pat Houston, the late superstar's sister-in-law and former manager.

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The film details the final years of Houston’s life and how her death in 2012 led...

It was a heartbreaking mirror of her famous mother’s untimely death, and a mystery that remains largely unsolved. Almost three years after the drowning that led to the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of legendary singer Whitney Houston and R&B star Bobby Brown, a controversial new film, Bobbi Kristina, seeks to shed light on the young woman few got to know. Screenwriter Rhonda Baraka says she hoped to “dig a little deeper and understand why this little girl’s life was the way it was.” Certainly, the way it was didn’t seem easy.

For all the mystery still surrounding her death,...