James Brown's widow says he was drugged and murdered in a sensational plot theory

The widow of music legend James Brown spoke for the first time of her fears that the singer was drugged and murdered.

Tomi Rae Brown told the Sunday Mirror that the star, Soul's iconic godfather, was using cocaine and other substances.

She says that Brown died mysteriously after telling his team that he wanted to reduce his workload.

And she thinks that manager David Cannon – later convicted for collecting money from Brown "held the answer to the death of the star.

Tomi Rae, 50, said that after her death, she was sent home to Augusta, Georgia, to find herself trapped outside their home.

She says, "Something has happened that no one wants me to know. But whatever happens, he'll go out. You can not hide the truth very long. "

Brown's death on Christmas day 2006 was attributed to heart failure.

The star, famous for her stage shuffle and hits like Get Up Off That That Thing and I Got You, was 73 years old.

But there was no autopsy and in February of this year, Brown's doctor, Marvin Crawford, suggested that his death was due to an overdose, deliberate or accidental.

This led to calls for a criminal investigation – supported by Tomi Rae, who currently lives in London.

She said to the mirror, "I think that he could have been murdered. They fed him drugs and did not pay him. You do not give any medicine to someone when you are looking for it.

"It was crack, cocaine and phencyclidine. Wherever I looked, there were these kinds of things. I would throw it and more would come.

"He would be on the phone," Bring me my green suit. Bring me my brown suit. And the suit would have something in the pockets.

"People gave it to him. He never used drugs until he was 40 years old. He was in education, stopping the race war.

"But a few people around him gave him that kind of stuff. I would say, "James, you're an old man, it's not going to help."

"When I was there, I would keep it away from that. We danced, made love, went for walks, did what we had to do. He had so much energy, more than me.

The autopsy was not performed, the singer's body being immediately mummified.

His legs were then amputated so that DNA tests could be performed as part of an ongoing battle for his 65 million pounds fortune.

Brown was buried in a crypt in his daughter Deanna's estate.

Tomi Rae and 12 friends, relatives and badociates, including the doctor who signed the death certificate, have requested the opening of an investigation.

Tomi Rae remembers how Brown called her the morning of her death and announced her move to New York. This, she insists, was her biggest mistake.

She said, "James said he wanted to settle in New York and start a new life to get away from the South. He just wanted to do business gigs.

"He told me that he had talked to David Cannon about it. And then he died in 24 hours.

Tomi Rae was in rehab in Miami when Brown pbaded away. She says her managers told her to go home to Augusta, Georgia.

But when she arrived there, she was left out of her mansion while Brown's corpse was lying in a hospital in Atlanta.

His suspicions grew after Cannon 's conviction sentenced to three years' imprisonment at home in 2011 for taking more money than he had the right to when he was sentenced. he directed Brown. He died last year.

Tomi Rae was Brown's fourth wife. They met in the mid-90s in Las Vegas, where she was an imitator of Janis Joplin.

They lived together for a decade and in 2001 had a son – James Brown The Second.

But Tomi Rae was ostracized by the Brown family and introduced as a clinger-on.

She and her son were evicted from their homes after claiming that her marriage to Brown was invalid.

Last year, a judge ruled that the union was legal.

But nine of Brown's heirs continue to argue that Tomi Rae "embarked on a series of duplicate commercial machinations designed to deprive Brown's children of their legitimate interests in Brown's music under the Ontario Copyright Act. right of author ".

Tomi Rae says that she feels "betrayed" after years spent in Brown's care.

She says, "I rubbed her legs eight hours a day. Curl her hair before a show, then curl after. He worked hard.

"I was holding this man when he had cancer. For 10 years I have endured difficult, not very fun tasks, helping his children when he told me not to do it. Then they betrayed me – and their little brother.

"I was for them Mama Rae, but I did not know how much they hated me.

Tomi Rae tells how the tragic superstar Michael Jackson came to her rescue – giving her £ 8,000 when she was penniless.

She reveals, "Michael was so nice to me. It was a love. He said, "I'm really sorry for what they're doing to you."

"He sent me money after James' death. It saved me, it brought me an apartment, it allowed us to live.

Tomi Rae has now secured investor loans, pending a possible payment.

She desperately wants to end the internal quarrel and hopes to make peace with her in-laws.

She continues: "Leave the end. I can not do this anymore. I am tired. They keep coming, they are mad and I do not know why.

"I never fought for anything except to be my husband's wife.

"I just want to bury him, move him away from his current resting place – the last place he wants to be. I hold an olive branch and I forgive them.

"I know how hard it has been to be a member of James' family."

Now, Tomi Rae has given his heart to his first solo album since Brown's death. Called Treacle, it includes a collaboration with the late star.

She says, "It's my way of saying goodbye to James. It's a thank you and a goodbye. It was very cathartic.

Her new fiancé, Pete Wbadif, whom she met in 2016, is a guitarist with the Tomirae Brown Band.

James Brown The Second, 18, is an aspiring rapper from the faculty of music.

Tomi Rae said, "My son and I are very tight. It's me and him against the world. From the court case to suffering the sliced ​​legs of the father.

"It's the lowest thing I've ever seen. It was inhuman. "

Tomi Rae plans to open a James Brown Foundation in London.

And she adds, "I am proud and honored to be his wife."

• Tomirae Brown's first album, Treacle, has just been released