Whitney Houston was laid to rest, but Bobby Brown didn’t stick around, said UsMagazine.com. Scores of stars, including Stevie Wonder, Kevin Costner, Jennifer Hudson, and Alicia Keys, gathered at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., to pay respects to the departed singer, who died on Feb. 11. Brown, however, walked out of the proceedings over a seating dispute with Houston’s family. Sources say Houston’s ex-husband was greeted coldly when he showed up at the church with an entourage of nine people. Tensions reportedly grew when security would not allow Brown to sit next to his daughter, Bobbi Kristina. “There are family members who felt Bobby drove Whitney into drugs,” said a close friend. “So there’s resentment.”
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