Bobby Brown Recalls Surviving 1995 Shooting: ‘178 Bullets Was in the Car’

Bobby Brown was divinely protected in a 1995 shooting that killed his friend, Steven Sealy.

The R&B legend was a guest on Club Shay Shay this week, where he recounted the incident, which reportedly happened in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts, outside the Biarritz Lounge. Brown and Sealy, who was engaged to one of the singer's sisters, left the club at 1 a.m. when Sealy was struck in the face while in Brown's Bentley. The man was 31 years old.

"People are jealous. They envy him. He shouldn’t come around showing off," said Jimmy Young, an emergency medical technician, at the time.

On Club Shay Shay, Brown, who was uninjured in the shooting, agreed that the incident stemmed from jealousy. "I'll never forget that moment. 178 bullets was in the car," Brown said around the 1:18:00 mark of the video below. "And I didn't get scratched once."

"That's how I know I got somebody watching over me," he continued.

While confirming his belief in God, Brown added that visiting home "ain't always where you need to be."

On what causes jealously, Brown thinks that those envious believe it "should've been them." "It's mind-boggling that people tend to get jealous of someone else's success when you should just bust your ass and work hard to be your own [success]," he said.

Also in the Club Shay Shay interview, Brown recalled disliking Britney Spears' 2004 cover of his 1988 hit "My Prerogative."