Rihanna will be giving an interview to GMA, on Thursday. In the interview she opens up for the first time about the beating by Chris Brown.
For the first time, we get to hear what the Alien Princess felt, being the victim of a brutal beating at the hands of the man she called her first big love. She has never before gone into detail about that night, nine months ago, that saw no real legal ramifications for those involved and no sensible discussions take place about spousal abuse/ other physical abuse within a relationship. Instead, we were treated to a media free-for-all and the realisation that a lot of Chris Brown fans have low enough standards to still find his woman-beating butt attractive.
Find out some of what Rihanna had to say, in her own words, under the cut.
Nine months after her fight with Chris Brown, Rihanna finally opens up about the night that left her bruised and bloody. “This happened to me. … It can happen to anyone,” the singer, 21, tells Diane Sawyer in an interview airing Thursday on Good Morning America and on 20/20 on Friday. Rihanna says it was particularly difficult because of the special place Brown held in her heart: “He was definitely my first big love.” (via People)
Image credit to CWNY/ Fame Pictures. Story & info. GMA and People.
I would like to give a big sarcastic congratulations to Rihanna for waiting until it was almost time to put out her album to do an interview over something that happened almost a year ago. Don’t get me wrong, domestic violence is serious, but is she gonna use this forever? The fact remains that if her music sucks, no matter how many interviews she does no one is going to just jump up and go buy a CD because she got beat up.
On the other hand, I don’t understand why everyone is so hard on Chris. Yes he did something wrong, but what him and Rihanna do in their free time is not going to change the way a majority of the people in the world think of their music. Its women in the world everyday that are victims, and no one is reaching out.
I am fans of both, I will continue to be fans of both. Their personal life has nothing to do with me and will not change the way I feel about their music.
Welcome back, Khadiya.
I agree with you, and made the same comment in the post linked above. It’s so contrived that she is eager to talk about being beaten now, when she has an album coming out. It makes light of the whole thing, as if it’s another commodity to be sold in order to boost album sales. So far as Chris Brown, I never liked him anyway. Being a woman-beater has nothing to do with his music, but I never had much of an opinion about that anyway either. It matters not so far as his job, but it does matter so far as public opinion and the example he sets to young fans.
Honestly I think its sinceless that anyone would look at people they don’t even know as role models. Chris never stepped up and said he wanted to represent young men. And if everyone follows his example and beats a woman, I guess its true what they say “monkey see monkey do”.
Thanks for the response. All common sense says you’re right about young people that should have better role models – but don’t. I don’t make the rules and he is a role model to fans by default, by being in the public eye. He doesn’t get to decide he doesn’t like it when he’s facing a backlash. So far as the example his behaviour sets, I never claimed that was literal… let me re-phrase… it’s moreso a bad example for what someone can get away with because of fame/ it’s a low standard of behaviour that is now seen by a lot of his fans as acceptable.
Rihanna failed to press any assault charges, so booty on her. She in no way deserved a beating, but she’s an fool to turn the other battered cheek like she did. I wish someone from her gaggle of vicarious victims would call her out on that, esp if she’s saying it could happen to anyone. Guess what? Letting the assailant off could happen to anyone, too, but it doesn’t have to!
As for Chris, I totally think he’s hawt, but it has nothing to do w/his personal life or voice. Yes, I’m shallow like that.
You have a point about her not bothering to push this legally and not being called on it. No one will ever push it either, for fear of sounding insensitive.
Of course she didn’t press charges. And if the public wouldn’t have found out about the abuse they were still be together. And after its all over with and is barely a memory they will probably end up back together.