James Brown's wife, Tomi Rae Brown, who is currently accompanying the Godfather of Soul on tour in Australia, says that the wild-looking booking photograph taken after the singer's arrest on domestic abuse charges could've been avoided. He was arrested in January after the couple got into a fight at their Beech Island, S.C., home in January. "I tried to give the police a comb for him," she told The Augusta Chronicle Monday. "I asked them to let me put him in some clean clothes. I asked them not to take the Godfather out looking like that." Brown, who says she loves her husband and wants to stay with him despite his pending criminal domestic violence charge, went on to explain that they had been through a tough weekend without electricity following an ice storm that left thousands of South Carolinians without power. "We had gone for three days with no power and no heat and we were freezing to death," she said. "Mr. Brown woke up that morning disheveled and I wanted to leave. I wasn't allowed to. That's when I made the 911 call, that's when the chair was raised over my head and that's when the police came." She said she hopes the couple can start over.
