Bobbi Kristina Brown's ex 'doesn't believe Nick Gordon beat her up'

Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown's former lover has leapt to the defence of Nick Gordon as she remains in a medically induced coma on life support since she was found face down in a bath on January 31.

The former beau Zach said that it's eerie how similar the circumstances are to that of her mother Whitney Houston, who died in a bathtub just three years ago, adding that it sent chills down his spine and made him sick to his stomach when he heard about it, the Mirror reported.

Zach, who met her through MySpace at the age of 15 and dated her from 2007 to 2009, claims that everybody's trying to make it all "Nick Gordon beat her up," but he doesn't believe that Gordon beat her up and threw her in the bathtub.

He added that that's kind of stupid, "why would you put her in a bath if her mom just died in a bathtub?"

Zach claimed that the couple had had a bust up before the incident that left Brown very upset and also revealed that he was shocked by the change in their relationship, and admitted that the family didn't take the news well just because the dynamic was always brother/sister before.

He noted that Gordon has a short temper and Brown can be difficult, adding it was a tug of war, because they are both very stubborn people. Brown is very sweet, giving and caring, but she wants all of you, everything and Gordon likes space, that's where a lot of the tension between them came from.

He concluded that he knows that Gordon could be aggressive and had got into fights in high school, but he never saw them fight physically.