Drugs, partying, fights and immense pain. According to friend Max Lomas, those were all constants in Bobbi Kristina Brown s young life in the weeks before it was brutally cut short. 
 
 Lomas, who lived off and on with Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston s daughter and boyfriend Nick Gordon, is opening up for the first time about what he says life was like for Brown in the days leading up to him finding her floating unconscious in her bathtub on Jan. 31, 2015. 
 
 “We were all pretty bad into drugs,” Lomas, 27, tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s issue, describing his, Brown, and Gordon’s life together at a townhouse in Roswell, Georgia, following Houston’s death. 
 
 Max Lomas, a longtime friend and housemate of Bobbi Kristina is speaking out for the first time about finding her unconscious Turgeon-Winslow/Splash News Online; Scott Kirkland/PictureGroup 
 
 Like Gordon, Lomas says he was taken in by Houston as a troubled teen. At the time, he and Brown were romantically involved, but that ended when he went to jail in 2011 on a probation violation. “[Whitney] loved that we were dating and always wanted me to protect Krissy,” says Lomas, who was still incarcerated at the time of Houston’s death. 
 
 After his release, he says Gordon, 26, and Brown, 22, began dating. “Their relationship was bipolar,” says Lomas. “[They had] extreme highs and lows and would fight, mostly about jealousy.” Two weeks before Brown’s incident, “we all decided that we were going to get off drugs, live healthier lifestyles. We all went to the gym together,” he says. “But it didn’t work out. We started using again.” 
 
 For more of Max Lomas’ shocking, tragic memories of life with Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on stands Friday 
 
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 Lomas says that at one point, Gordon became abusive towards Brown, which Gordon’s lawyers have vehemently denied, contesting all of Lomas’ claims and calling him “a drug addict” in a recent statement made to PEOPLE. 
 
 Brown’s family, including Bobby Brown, filed a $40 million civil suit against Gordon, who during an interview with Dr. Phil in April, admitted to using drugs, but insisted he was never abusive. “[Bobby] hurt his own daughter, not me,” said Gordon. “I was the one there for her while she was dealing with him not being there.” 
 
 Not long after the group’s failed attempt at sobriety, Lomas says he called Brown’s aunt Pat Houston. “They were planning an intervention and taking her to L.A.,” he recalls, which Bobby Brown also claims was the case in his memoir Every Little Step. But that intervention never happened. 
 
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 Lomas, who now says he’s sober, still doesn’t know what exactly happened to Brown the night he pulled her limp body from the ice cold water in her bathroom. “When you are living that kind of lifestyle, it’s hard to remember each day,” he says. “They all kind of blended together.” But now, “I’m able to process things.” 
 
 No longer friends with Gordon, Lomas says he remembers Brown, who died last July after spending months in a coma, for her spirit. “If she was alive, I know she would be living in LA and pursuing her music career and doing all the things she wanted to do. She had such a beautiful heart.” ||||| The friend who discovered Bobbi Kristina Brown in her bathtub has died of an apparent drug overdose. 
 
 Max Lomas was discovered unconscious in a friend’s bathroom with a syringe near his body after his pal grew concerned when he didn’t come out for a long time, TMZ reported Friday. Lomas was reportedly rushed to a nearby Mississippi hospital, where he later passed away. 
 
 Lomas was the one who pulled Brown out of the bathtub and administered CPR with her partner, Nick Gordon, until help arrived. 
 
 No charges were ever filed against Lomas, though Brown’s family won a $36 million wrongful death civil suit against Gordon for her death. 
 
 Brown was in a coma for six months before dying in hospice care at age 22 on July 26, 2015. 
 
 Page Six has reached out to Lomas’ attorney for comment.
– The friend who found Bobbi Kristina Brown face-down in a bathtub after an overdose has suffered a similar death himself, reports TMZ. Max Lomas was found unresponsive on the floor of a friend's bathroom in Mississippi with a syringe nearby and died at the hospital, according to the website. Lomas played no small role in the case of Brown, the daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. He was the one who actually pulled the 22-year-old from the tub and helped administer CPR until help arrived, notes Page Six. "We were all bad into drugs," Lomas told People in 2016, referring to himself, Brown, and her boyfriend, Nick Gordon. No charges were ever filed after Brown's death in 2015.