While I respect Rihanna's right to discuss the specific events of February 8, I maintain my position that all of the details should remain a private matter between us. I do appreciate her support and wish her the best. I am extremely sorry for what I did, and I accept accountability for my actions. At this point, I am taking the proper steps to learn about me and grow from my mistakes. I only hope that others in similar situations can learn from our experience as well. Abuse of any kind is always wrong. The rest I leave it to God.
Sounds like someone is sick of being painted as the bad guy!
Princess RiRi can talk all she wants - she's the victim in this situation, NOT Chris!
In the last 24 hours, the world has gotten a glimpse into the now infamous altercation between Rihanna and Chris Brown from Ri herself.
Breaking her silence finally after several months of speculation, Rihanna sat down with Diane Sawyer and in part two of her interview, which aired today, she gives the heart-wrenching details of that fateful night, claiming that while it was all happening, he "had no soul in his eyes."
To hear Rihanna recount the events of the evening is shocking, mostly because she confirms all of the worst details, including the fact that one point, Chris threatened to kill her for phoning her assistant. She insists she knew he would never go through it, using his words as a scare tactic to keep her quiet, but the physical abuse that she recounts was very real:
"I fended him off with my feet from one … side of the car, but … it was not like, it was not like a fight with each other. I just … I really just wanted it to stop…I was bleeding. I was swollen in my face. So there was no way of me getting home, except for, my next option was to get out of the car and walk. Start walking in a gown, in a bloody face. So I really don't know what my plan was. I didn't have a plan. That whole night was not part of my plan."
She recalls that by the time the police reached the scene, she was already brutally "battered" and when asked what caused the fight initially, she would only say that he was lying to her:
"I caught him in a lie. And he wouldn't tell the truth … I was being more annoyed at that point in our relationship he had to lie about something so stupid, I couldn't take that he kept lying to me. And he couldn't take that I wouldn't drop it. And … it was ugly."
Along with shining some light on the details of that evening, she also divulges into why, after all the pain he caused her, she returned to him for a period of time. She insists that she was feeling a "host ofemotions " and that her love for him "blinded" her from seeing the reality of the situation. She said, "The physical wounds go away, you put it in the back of your head and you start lying to yourself subconsciously."
Feeling "lonely" and "humiliated," especially after the leak of the photo of her face after Chris' attack, it took her getting over the hurdle of feeling the need to protect Chris before she could walk away:
"I just said to him, 'I can't do this.' I resented him. I resented him so much. And I always put the tough face on and try to, I can do anything face, and just try to play it off. But he knew. He knew it. He kept asking me, 'You hate me, don't you? You hate me,'" she told Sawyer. "And I would lie and I would say, 'No, no. And … I did hate him. … Everything about him annoyed me. So finally … I just said, we can't … we can't do this. I cannot continue to do this."
Finally, though she says she has grown and feels like the worst of the incident is behind her, she makes it clear that in the end, it is something that she will always take with her, a piece of her that can never be healed:
"The thing that men don't realize, when they hit a woman, it's… the face, the broken arm, the black eye, it's going to heal. That's not … the problem. It's the scar inside. You flashback. You … you remember it all the time. It comes back to you whether you like it or not. And it's painful. So I don't think he understood that. They never do."
Wow! So strong!
We're so happy that she has been able to grow from this situation and find a way to face it and talk about it openly.
If Chris Brown was bothered by Oprah Winfrey not lending him a helping hand after his "incident" with Rihanna, he must really be hating her now.
Oprah has stated that she's against domestic violence and therefore did not offer Chris the opportunity to go on her show and try to clean up his image.
But she did allow gospel singer BeBe Winans on her show, despite his domestic violence issues. Burn!
Winans was arrested in March of this year on charges of domestic assault after he allegedly pushed his ex-wife to the ground while arguing about child custody issues. He's due back in court early January on those charges.
Though it seems that didn't bother Winfrey much as she had BeBe appear on her show last Friday as a judge for a karaoke challenge skit.
However, that decision has left many people calling her, what else, but a hypocrite!
And Oprah was set to have him return on her show to promote his new reunion project with his sister CeCe Winans, however, it seems all the negative backlash has started to get to Oprah as she's now banned Winans from her show. That is until the charges against him are resolved.
Inneresting.
Hey Chris, have any thoughts on this? Oh wait, Oprah doesn't care what you have to say!
And she implies it was by ex-husband Tommy Mottola!
Mariah Careyrevealed on Larry King Live that she has also been affected by abuse in relationships:
"Abuse has several categories. Emotionally, mentally, in other ways. I just think you get into a situation and you feel locked in — if your situation is similar to one of the situations I've been in, which I won't harp on. For me, to really get out, it was difficult because there was a connection that was not only a marriage but a business thing where the person was in control of my life."
"I was very sequestered, as you know, when I first started out and if I were just allowed to be young and with a young boyfriend who's also a star and you know, you're working and you're both — I don't know what goes on. You know what I mean? So it's like, I wasn't really allowed out of the house, so I can't imagine what she went through."
As for any baby news with hubby Nick Cannon, Mariah responded:
"Right now? I'm going to take a swig of my scotch and let you know. [Being pregnant] would be the happiest thing in my life, but what I'm saying is right now with this movie [Precious] coming out, with the next few singles from the album and those things that I'm doing, I need to focus on that because I cannot do the having-a-child thing halfway. I wouldn't be just like, 'Oh, I'm having a child, yay! Let me get a nanny so I can give her the baby. Take the kid.' That doesn't work me. I don't believe in that."
Well that clears up those rumors…for now!
Sounds like she had a difficult marriage with Tommy Mottola, but we all know she's pretty pleased with current husband Nick. They're kind of a nauseating couple, but they do seem really happy.
To counteract Rihanna's upcoming tell-all interview with Diane Sawyer on Friday, Chris Beat-Her-Down will be telling his own side of the story!
On basic cable, of course.
Brown sat down with MTV's Sway for what the network is labeling Chris Brown: The Interview.
Creative!
Check out the details:
Going from an up-and-coming music star to hearing comments like “woman beater,” Chris discusses the struggle to adapt to the public’s new perception of him and how fans might react at his concerts. He goes into detail about his on-going anger management therapy, court-mandated weekly group sessions and his community labor sentence, all of which have helped him evaluate his past behavior and express his feelings in his new songs.
Rihanna's big sit-down interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer airs Thursday on Good Morning America and Friday night on 20/20, and it's sure to be an interesting one!
RiRi reportedly speaks quite candidly about her former relationship with Chris Brown, as revealed in the small excerpt released on Wednesday.
"The more in love we became, the more dangerous we became for each other," Rihanna shared with Sawyer. "He was definitely my first big love."
She continued: "This happened to me… and it can happen to anybody."
As expected, Chris Brown's upcoming "comeback" tour is facing seriously pathetic sales!
Tickets went on sale over the weekend and insiders tells us that the numbers were just pitiful!
Last year, Beat-Her-Down was selling out 20,000 seat arenas and now he can't even sell out 1,000 - 2,500 seat venues! Every show listed on Ticketmaster.com still has plenty of seats available.
Some markets' sales have already been labeled as "disastrous!"
We have a feeling a BIG chunk of this tour is going to end up being canceled.
It's pretty clear that America WON'T be welcoming you back with open arms any time soon, Beat-Her-Down!
With 20 days to go until her so-called "comeback" album, Rated R is released, Rihanna is finally speaking out about what has happened in the past year.
Before her GMA and 20/20 special this week, RiRi got a chance to chat with Glamour magazine.
The deets aren't that juicy, but she does touch on the subject of "the incident" with Beat-Her-Down and her new album.
Here are some HIGHlights for her interview:
Glamour: Let’s talk about this past year—you’ve obviously been through some difficult things. How did the people around you help you cope?
Rihanna: My friends and family have been extremely supportive, and everyone has been there for me. But at some point you are there alone. It’s a lonely place to be—no one can understand. That’s when you get close to God.
G: Are you referring to the [Chris Brown] incident?
R: I am talking about starting with the night [before] the Grammys and then on. That was not the only thing that occurred this year. The picture leaking…it was one thing after another.
G: You’re talking about the photo [reportedly of Rihanna’s injured face taken by police after Brown assaulted her] that was allegedly leaked by cops. You handled that so well; you kept silent in the press.
R: It was humiliating; that is not a photo you would show to anybody. I felt completely taken advantage of. I felt like people were making it into a fun topic on the Internet, and it’s my life. I was disappointed, especially when I found out the photo was [supposedly leaked by] two women.
G: How has this event changed you as a person, as a woman?
Rihanna: I’m stronger, wiser and more aware. You don’t realize how much your decisions affect people you don’t even know, like fans.
G: Do you feel that this experience has laid the groundwork for coping with anything so public again?
R: It has taught me so much. I felt like I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day. It was like, What, there are helicopters circling my house? There are 100 people in my cul-de-sac? What do you mean, I can’t go back home?
G: If you could offer a message to the millions of young women who look up to you, what would you tell someone who found herself in a similar situation?
R: Domestic violence is a big secret. No kid goes around and lets people know their parents fight. Teenage girls can’t tell their parents that their boyfriend beat them up. You don’t dare let your neighbor know that you fight. It’s one of the things we [women] will hide, because it’s embarrassing. My story was broadcast all over the world for people to see, and they have followed every step of my recovery. The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn’t heard. Now I can help speak for those women.
G: I think that’s a great message. What about your new album? What’s it like?
R: I was involved in a lot of the writing. I put everything I’ve wanted to say for the past eight months into my music. The songs are really personal. It’s rock ‘n’ roll, but it’s really hip-hop: If Lil’ Wayne and Kings of Leon like my album, then I’ll feel good. I would not change anything about it. Even if people don’t love it, I made exactly the piece of art that I wanted to make. It’s super fearless—which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place.
We're happy that RiRi is in a good place and she loves her album. We just hope she's not disappointed when a LOT of people disagree with her.
Can't wait to hear what she has to say later this week!
