Bobby Brown has filed a $2 million lawsuit naming Showtime, the BBC, and producers of Being Bobby Brown among its defendants over what his complaint claims is 30 minutes of unauthorized footage in the 2017 Showtime/BBC documentary, Whitney: Can I Be Me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCqe9frgPqk

According to the documents obtained by Deadline, the lawsuit states that there’s footage on the film of the King of R&B and his children without his consent.

“The film contains images of [Brown’s] other children, Landon Brown, Robert ‘Bobby’ Brown Jr. and LaPrincia Brown as minor children,” the suit mentions. “Brown never consented to have his children appear in the film Can I Be Me and his children never consented.”

“Brown never signed or executed a release for the airing of the material that appears in the film,” reads part of the complaint. We can reasonably assume that he did sign a release for footage taped at this time that ended up on Being Bobby Brown. However, Brown’s suit claims that the use of this footage, much of it previously unaired, violates a 2004 contract signed by him, Baker-Simmons, and Shelley. He signed over, according to what is labeled as an excerpt of that 2004 contract, his rights to be portrayed in “the Project” (Being Bobby Brown).

Read the full lawsuit between Bobby Brown and  Showtime/BBC here.