I don’t get it. Why are people attacking Rihanna? She was very open and honest during this interview. She didn’t sugar coat anything just to make herself look good. She admitted her mistakes and took responsibilty for it. I know the Chris Brown stans are just mad because the only reason you watched was because you were just praying Rihanna would say she hit him first. Well she didn’t. She said I didn’t do this. I didn’t cause this. That was for all of you non-believers that want to place the blame everywhere except where it belongs..On the person that committed the felony act.

Yea & so what if she is doing this to boost her album.. I see nothing wrong with taking a bad situation and making it into a GOOD one for yourself! Hell she deserves it! If Chris can go publicly about this shit to promote him WELL MOS DEFFINTLY RIHANNA CAN! It doesn’t mean it’s insincere at all!

@ 149….i totally agree!!

>>>>>Record sales or not I’m glad she spoke out and I feel sorry for her and I >>>>>believe her. good job

Wow, I really feel for this young girl, to see your picture plastered all over the news, all bruised and battered up like that must have really hurt!

It’s hard enough just being in the public eye all the time, people judge every little thing you do or say! It’s no wonder why celebs are on drugs or alcoholics!

I commend her for fessing up and trying to do the right thing! like I said before your damed if you do, and your damed if you don’t, it’s just a two edged sword in that entertainment world!

Good Luck Ri Ri!

WOMEN WILL ALWAYS BLAME THE WOMAN AND GIVE THE MAN A PASS. AS LONG AS CHRIS KEEPS TAKING OFF HIS SHIRT AND HUMPING THE STAGE THESE CHICKS WILL NOT CARE WHO HE KNOCKS OUT!

BTW WATCHING THE VIEW IT IS SO OBVIOUS THAT WHOOPI DOES NOT LIKE RIHANNA.

Wow the haters are in full force - There was no way for rih rih to promote her CD w/o talking about this. The timing? So what! Did you haters talk the same chit when Whitney did it? Speaking out on something as personal as domestic violence is a hard thing to do. Everyone reacts and rebounds differently. The fact that she realized that it was an unhealthy relationship & left is what’s important. Despite some people’s hatred for her she has a lot of young fans & some might be in the same situation she was in. They needed to hear it’s ok to make a mistake, but its even better to take the time & understand what you need to do about it.

So what if she has an album coming out? I’m still not going to buy the album. Let the woman speak when she wants to speak! She was going to be asked about the situation at one point anyway.

THIS REMINDS OF WHEN EVERYBODY HATED ROBIN GIVENS FOR SAYING MIKE TYSON WAS AN ABUSER. THEY HATED ON HER HARD….UNTIL…MIKE STARTED BITING OFF PEOPLE’S EARS. THEN EVERYONE WAS LIKE OH I GUESS SHE WAS RIGHT ABOUT HIM. I GUESS CHRIS WILL HAVE TO BITE OFF TREY SONGZ EAR FOR WOMEN ON HERE TO SEE WHAT KIND OF PERSON HE IS!

WOW trying to ruin Chris’s career for your own benefit aren’t we? Everyone moved past this ages ago and now she does a complete personality change (makeup & clothes) and is having multiple interviews weeks before her album comes out????? While I think the interview sounds a lot better than I expected and I appreciate her sharing her experiences, the fact that she chose to do this as promotion for her album cannot be denied. And she’s clearly being successful because here goes everyone on here talking about “wow I’m so proud of her” “go Riri” WTF! I’m sorry but I’m not buying it. I am so sick of this girl and extremely disappointed ew

>>>>>>Why is she so wrong Beyonce did it for her record sales (wanted to talk about her marriage)
>>>>>> Whitey Houston talked about her crack problem when he album was coming out
>>>>>>. and now that Rhi is doing it she is so wrong, u people just talk to be talking

WHAT RIHANNA DID TODAY IS TOO BAD AND I’M VERY ANGRY TO SEE THAT SHE’S TRYING TO KILL THIS 20 YEARS OLD MAN WHEN HE’S ON HIS KNEES TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING FOR HER TO FORGIVE HIM.I PRAY GOD AND ANYONE WHO DOES SHOULD FORGIVE. TELL ME WHAT IS A PERSON WHO TRIES TO RUIN HER EX’ S CAREER BECAUSE HER ALBUM IS A FIASCO, WHAT IS A PERSON WHO WALKS ALL THE STREETS NAKED AND PRETENDS TO BE A VOICE FOR YOUNG GIRLS, HEARTLESSLY USING THE YOUNG PEOPLE TO SELL ONE OF THE DARKEST AND MOST EVIL ALBUM OF ALL TIME.HAS SHE FIGURED OUT ALL THE SACRIFICES CB AND THE PEOPLE THAT WORKS FOR HIM MADE TO BRING OUT AN ALBUM.DOES SHE KNOW THAT IF THERE IS NO CB, A LOT OF FAMILIES WOULD LOOSE THEIR JOB ? OF COURSE SHE KNOWS. DOES SHE CARE ? NOP. AGAIN IS GOOD TO SAY WHAT YOU’VE BEEN TROUGH, BUT HERE RIHANNA TRIES TO DEMOLISH THIS YOUNG MAN, TALKIN ABOUT CB AS “THIS TYPE OF PERSON”. TOO SATANIC, JUST LIKE JAY. THIS R ALBUM MUST GO TO HELL AND DANCE WITH THE DEMONS.

@Neon please not every domestic victim is tied to the man just for children or financial security. Some just love the man plain and simple, and that was the situation in rihannas case. She is young, so this may be her first domestic situation, so she would not fit neatly into your little theory. You don’t have to respect her, because its her life not yours. She may not have left right away, but she still left. It takes courage to love someone, but to push or force that love aside and decide to leave, because you know its the right thing to do. Its easy to be on the outside looking in, but until you experience it youself, the script does not always play out the way you’ve written it above.

@ 159

Everyone isnt Mike Tyson..it’s logic like this that has me SMH.

@lol01 go get beat down by a man, and see if you cope with it any different than rihanna. Keep the truth in, because you want to protect your abuser and see how far it get you. And rihanna’s album is far from a fiasco. It is doing pretty nicely.

For the last time: She didn’t need to do this for album sales. She already has a huge fan base. EVERY celeb goes on a media blitz to promote whatever they have new coming out. Actors, authors, singers…ALL of them do it.
It just so happens that she has NEVER spoken about this so SHE HAD TO SPEAK BECAUSE THEY WOULD ASK HER ABOUT IT!…Duh!
They will not let her come talk about Rated R without mentioning THE OBVIOUS TOPIC ON EVERYONE’S MIND.
If she didn’t talk about it these haters would be saying she must HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE and she is IRRESPONSIBLE FOR NOT SPEAKING OUT. She can never win because haters won’t give her a chance no matter what she does!
Rihanna your fans are proud of you! Yes you are strong! We support you! The haters WILL NEVER GIVE YOU CREDIT FOR ANYTHING POSITIVE YOU DO. They will ALWAYS BLAME YOU for what Chris Brown did. He ruined his own career. Not you. I KNOW PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO MAKE YOU FEEL BAD FOR EXPOSING HIM. You have NOTHING TO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT. He brought this all on himself! By doing this interview you are RE-GAINING YOUR POWER AND EMPOWERING OTHER WOMEN ALL OVER THE WORLD that were scared to get out before.

ALL I CAN SAY IS YESSSS!!!!

Rihanna I’m so PROUD of you!

She said it! And she understands about the importance of this issue of Domestic Violence to her young female FANS!

Rihanna I support you 300% for being BOLD and COURAGEOUS!

This is the Rihanna we all LOVE!

Chris is now trying to speak on MTV he is so DONE!

Rihanna is a role MODEL!

11-23-09
The Wait is OVA!

Rihanna Should Discuss Her Own Violence As Well As Chris Brown’s, Affirms National Coalition of MenNational Coalition For Men calls on Rihanna to woman up about her own violence

For Immediate Release
LOS ANGELES/EWORLDWIRE/Nov. 5, 2009 — Pop singer Rihanna recently made a widely publicized statement to Glamour Magazine that she wants to “shed light on the reality of domestic violence.” The National Coalition For Men (NCFM) calls on Rihanna to discuss her own reported violence against Brown as well if she wants to shed light on the problem honestly.
According to court records and other sources, Rihanna struck Brown in the face “numerous times” before Brown assaulted her (’http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/768865/rihanna-hit-chris-brow…’). NCFM purports although that would not justify his more severe assault, her violence should not be ignored, and if she does not “woman up” to it then her message will be the usual one-sided double standards that leave female perpetration covered up.
The saying, “There is no excuse for domestic violence,” applies to both sexes. Female violence in relationships is not rare but is often hypocritically deemed acceptable or humorous, such as in the film, Sideways. It is part of the cycle of domestic violence, which cannot be stopped without addressing the problem honestly. Children are damaged just by witnessing domestic violence, regardless of its severity.
A 32-nation study by the University of New Hampshire found women are as violent and as controlling as men in relationships worldwide (’http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n’,
‘http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41E2.pdf’).
A major study funded by the Centers for Disease Control found one-fourth of heterosexual relationships had violence and: “half (49.7%) of those were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases.” (’http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941′)
The same study also found “while injury was more likely when violence was perpetrated by men, in relationships with reciprocal violence it was the men who were injured more often (25% of the time) than were women (20% of the time).” (’http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a’)
Over 200 studies now confirm the same thing, that “women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners,” as California State University Professor Martin Fiebert shows in his online bibliography at ‘http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm’. This data is more reliable than criminal justice data because men are less likely to report the violence or to respond positively to crime surveys because society still does not consider female violence as much of a crime.
If Rihanna sincerely wants to raise awareness about domestic violence, NCFM calls on her to be forthcoming about her own violence and to address the problem honestly.
To learn more about the National Coalition of Free Men, contact Marc Angelucci at 626-319-3081

Yea sorry boo this is for SYMPATHY SALES…The timing is just so perfect, instead of speaking on a national tv show, HOW ABOUT YOU GO SPEAK WITH BATTERED AND ABUSED FEMALES…Its all for show whomever prepped her for this interview got paid a pretty penny…Ppl are gonna feel compelled 2 buy her CD after this, no matter how it really is

@ KEL
KEEP SHAKING YOUR HEAD BECAUSE AN ABUSER IS AN ABUSER TO ME. IN FACT WHEN ROBIN GIVENS WAS INTERVIEWED SHE SAID MIKE DIDN’T HIT HER BUT HE SHOVED HER. SOME WOULD SAY THAT IS LESS BRUTAL THAN BEING PUT IN A HEADLOCK, BITTEN, HAVING YOUR HEAD SMASHED AGAINST A WINDOW, AND BEING ALMOST PUSHED OUT OF A MOVING CAR. I SAY ABUSE IS ABUSE. SO I DON’T GET YOUR LOGIC EITHER. IT IS WHAT IT IS.

CHRIS the woman beater BROWN

You are DONE.

This was in the NY DAILY NEWS TODAY!

Looks like Chris Brown’s past might haunt him “Forever.”

The scorned singer is attempting a comeback with his “Fan Appreciation” tour, which kicks off next week, but he hasn’t had much luck filling even the small venues he’s set to perform in.

The gigs - which start at the House of Blues in Houston on Nov. 14 and end in the Big Apple’s Nokia Theater on Dec. 15 - aren’t even close to sold out. In fact, anyone who’s interested can still purchase up to 50 tickets at a time for Brown’s opening night.

“This is definitely not the outcome [Chris' label] Jive Records hoped for,” says an industry exec, adding that the poor ticket sales are surely a result of Brown’s now-infamous altercation with Rihanna in February. “Chris lost a lot of fans after he assaulted Rihanna. And after that whole scandal, he’s not exactly kid-friendly. What parent would buy their children tickets to his concert?

Selling tickets and CD’s may be increasingly more difficult for the controversial crooner, now that Rihanna is finally speaking up about what actually happened between the two on that fateful February night. Among other interviews, the songbird is doing a segment on today’s “Good Morning America,” which will continue tomorrow on “20/20.”

While the “Good Girl Gone Bad” isn’t bashing her ex - she refers to him as her first “big love” before labeling the situation as “unfortunate” - she may not have to.

“Chris made his own bed,” says our source. “And now he has to lie in it.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.co...t_tour.html#ixzz0W0KAqRVX

YEAH WELL CHRIS IS GETTING SYMPATHY SALES TOO.
AWW POOR CHRIS LOOK WHAT THAT EVIL DEMONIC GIRL DID TO YOU. HOW DARE SHE HIT YOU IN YOUR FIST WITH HER FACE! WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?
I HATE SILLY BROADS!

I’ve been where Rihanna was, and until you’ve been in a similar position, you have no idea what it’s like to be caught up in an abusive relationship. It takes time to reclaim yourself and recover from being with a controlling type of man. They try to break your body and your spirit. You do feel angry with yourself for making poor choices, especially if you go back to the man, and it IS embarrassing once you get away long enough to clear the cobwebs of the abusive relationship out of your head. It’s easy for some of you to say this is just some kind of publicity stunt and that she’s insincere. Have you been in an abusive relationship? If not, please don’t judge. Please consider instead that Rihanna may not have wanted to talk about this incident at all, but knew she had to so she could go on with her career. Better for her to get it out of the way now, so she doesn’t have to be asked about it in every interview later.

I applaud her courage. It’s been 19 years since I was involved in that relationship and I’m still embarrassed that I was that stupid. I wasn’t raised around abuse and I knew better, but I went back, more than once, until I finally had the strength to cut the man out of my life completely. He didn’t give up without a huge fight, and police had to be called more than once.

Ultimately I consider myself lucky that he didn’t kill me. Not every woman is so lucky. Regardless of whether anyone thinks this is a publicity stunt, Rihanna is doing a good thing by appealing to young women to get out of these violent and abusive relationships before it’s too late.

@LOLLO1 ur an absolute dickhead, put your feelings for chris brown aside as you are obviously a fan and be reasonable. He beat the SHIT out of this girl and what do you want her to do, keep her mouth shut and hang about in the shadows so he doesnt lose his job, dont fuck up your girlfriend and then you can expect to have job security, otherwise, you may have a problem, thats for him to deal with not her.
If you were a true christrian you would not be condeming people to hell, its not your job, stop being blasphamous with every single word you type, your just appearing ignorant to your own religion.
In terms of people saying this is album promotion, I honestly believe that this girl would never talk about this on camera if she didnt have to, but her album is coming out now, she has to promote it now, so she speaks now. It would be non-sensical for her to try and avoid talking about, she has to talk about it, you the public DEMAND she talk about it so shut the fuck up and let her speak,
I really dont understand how a woman can go through domestic violence, try to regain control over her life and career and you vilify her for it just because chris brown sang your favourite song,
How would you really feel if chris brown knocked seven shades of shit out of your mum? or your friend? would you be so forgiving, no. Let him deal with the negative consequences of his actions this time, she dealt them already as we all saw when the photos of her beaten face were leaked.

@lollo1 you are stupid

THIS BITCH IS EVIL! SHE WANTS TO BE AN EXAMPLE TO LITTLE GIRL? WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE IS RUSSIAN ROULETTE SENDING? RIHANNA IS A JOKE!!!!! CHRIS SHOULD’VE EXPOSED THE WHORE WHEN HE HAD THE CHANCE!

I thought she was very courageous for doing this. She is also very well spoken which is a plus. There is nothing worse than watching an interview and wanting to cringe every time the person opens their mouth. I think the lesson here is that you live and you learn. Sometimes you fall in love with the wrong person. Young women need to pay attention to the advice that Michelle Obama gave about finding the right guy. I can tell that most of the young women on this blog will also have to learn life lessons the hard way because you mostly only focus on the superficial things like how “fine” a man is. Unfortunately with that mentality there will be many more Rihanna’s of the world that will go through something very similar.

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That Rihanna reign just won’t let up!

It’s terrible that she went through something like this.

I remember when i first heard I couldn’t listen to any Chris Brown songs for months after.

It’s good that she left him - whether it was to send out a message that his treatment of her was unacceptable and for others to do the same thing, or not.

Her eyes still look sad, though, understandably of course. Hope this changes soon.

Will be watching 20/20.

ANY PARENT WHO BUYS THEIR CHILD A RIHANNA CD, MIGHT AS WELL FEED THEIR CHILD TO WOLVES. WHEN HAS IT BEEN ACCEPTABLE FOR KIDS TO SING “SO JUST PULL THE TRIGGER?” SMH!!!! AND THIS SORRY EXCUSE OF A WOMAN WANTS TO BE A ROLE MODEL TO YOUR CHILD! RIHANNA NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A SORRY EXCUSE OF A HUMAN BEING! AFTER THAT SHE NEEDS TO BEG FOR FORGIVENESS. THE BITCH IS SO FUCKIN LOST SHE’S STARTING TO BELIEVE THE MEDIA’S LIVES. SOMEONE NEEDS TO WHOOP HER ASS AGAIN! ENOUGH OF THIS BITCH! WHERE’S THE BEYONCE AND GAGA VIDEO? THAT SHOULD BE THE TOP STORY….NOT EVIL TENHEAD!

Well at least Rihanna is more articulate than Chris Brown so her phony.. I mean public sit down comes off better in her favor. It just doesn’t sit well knowing this chic has an album out and her team wants to thrust her in front of cameras just so she’ll look good. Kinda ironic how soft she looks here and most the time she’s wearing dark clothes and wild hair.

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That Rihanna reign just won’t let up!

I JUST DON’T BELIEVE CHRIS BROWN BEAT HER JUST OUT OF THE BLUE.

BUT I DON’T FEEL SORRY FOR CHRIS BECUZ HE HAD THE CHANCE TO TELL IT ALL BUT TRYING TO SAVE HER IMAGE. WE ALL KNOW THAT THEY BOTH WAS HITTING EACH OTHER. SOMEONE HIT SOMEONE FIRST AND I BELIEVE IT WAS RIHANNA. AND CHRIS JUST WENT OFF CUZ HE GOT CAUGHT CHEATING.

IT’S JUST CRAZY THAT RIHANNA MAKES HERSELF LOOKS LIKE SHE DIDN’T DO ANYTHING THAT THIS BOY JUST HIT HER FOR NO REASON. IT DOESN’T ADD UP. IF CHRIS IS MONSTER WHY NOT HAVE HIM IN JAIL, WHY NOT PRESS CHARGERS ON HIM, WHY ASK THE JUDGE TO REMOVE THE ORDER. THE WAY SHE TALKING IN THE INTERVIEW IT DOESN’T ADD UP WITH HER ACTIONS. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.

AND NOW LOOK SHE THROW HIM UNDER THE BUS. WE ALL KNOW SHE IS DOING THIS FOR HER ALBUM.

Jay Z and Def Jam had to do something because her album not really poppin off so the sympathy album sales she needs! The whole thing sounds script. If this doesn’t work then Jay Z will have to find some sort of way to rig the charts to get her to #1. LMAO!

people are so funny to me…This is no EASY thing to openly discuss!! Her most embarassing and private moment was revealed for the world to see. How many people lie and hide abuse all the time? She’s speaking now because she couldn’t realistically have come back with a new record and not had anyone ask questions…if she did that would it have been better?? bottom line…homie lost his cool and whooped on a female….like not even just a push or shove….FULL OUT BRUTALLY BEAT HER!! and all these dumb females out here like, “OMG I LOVE CHRIS BROWN, THAS GOOD FOR RIHANNA”….or “OMG HE CAN WHOOP ME CUZ HE SO FINE” Ya’ll are disgraceful and just as silly as whoever put him in those black leggings

@176 Oh stop! Rihanna had 9 montsh of prep to pull this phony stuff off and besides Def Jam and J telling her to leave, but only sneak and see hime is sickening. She left also because ole girl did not want to loose them endorsement deals. She’s fake!

I’m not a cb or rhi fan I’m a reality fan. And this is reality. Rihanna did not go back just cuz of luv in my opinion. She went back cuz she also was the abuser. I wrote on her site earler that when I seen her in orlando at the aiport she was in line and noone knew who she was. My emplyees asked to pull cb out the regular and help him through quicker. I approved it and he was nice funny cool and fanbased. Rih was rude cocky and disrespectful. She was not fan based at all. When asked to take pics she refused and he agreed cuz he wanted to flaunt their relationship. She got pissed and shoved her dog in his hands and made him stop and keep walking. She was even rude to the officers. So kill dis poor rih and I wanna be a role model mess. Her actions showed me that day that she is a fighter and she like control. What cb did was wrong but instead of burying him she should admit to her physical part also. And this inteterview is definitely for her album. Please believe. Cuz like someone said ealier why didn’t she come out sooner instead of parading around the world like all was good. Just remember ms fenty the life and u take from someone else that is getting help is the same type if treatment u will get in the future cuz karma is something else. Let the man live dam. Is it cuz his songs were on itunes on top and u finally made it there a couple of days ago. I do not believe a word she said especially when she play innocent and nieve

glad she recognized she can be an example in getting out of the situation for those young girls who are in it…

i still think he can be the example of the guy who was reformed from being abusive - if people give him the chance to prove it…

sketchy that she’s now doing the interview when her album drops in a few weeks; but he’s on mtv tomorrow so i guess they’re even on that route…

All in the name on of FAME! Rihorrid is the true FAME MONSTER. If chris didnt know, now he knows!

Chris not getting any “sympathy” sales!

Chris is trying to save his image rather than deal with his ACTIONS.

People are not dumb. He has the worst PR in this WORLD.

This was from the Daily News.

“Chris lost a lot of fans after he assaulted Rihanna. And after that whole scandal, he’s not exactly kid-friendly. What parent would buy their children tickets to his concert?”

Chris it’s a WRAP!

Go deal with your violence issues and stop trying to IGNORE what you did.
This will only happen again!

11-23-09
The Wait is OVA!

@bored I believe you are apart of Beyonce camp

WTF IS WRONG WITH WOMEN THESE DAYS? I AM REALLY CONFUSED BY THESE COMMENTS. SO IT’S OK FOR A NICCA TO BEAT HIS GIRL’S A$$ BUT IT’S NOT OK FOR HER TO DO AN INTERVIEW?
WTF??????????????????????????????

who cares if she spoke now it’s not like she gave some bullshit interview like chris did. im glad she’s telling her story her way and not what you haters want her to say.

There are 3 sides to a story, your story, my story, and the truth. None of us really knows what happened that night because none of us were there. We only saw the outcome, and consequences of what happened. I don’t think Chris Brown is the only one who’s at fault, but she didn’t deserve to beat down, but who knows she might have gotten physical with him.

WOW I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THE REST ON FRIDAY. WHY DID THEY HAVE TO LEAVE US IN SUSPENSE LIKE THIS?
SIDENOTE: SHE HAS THE PRETTIEST EYES IN THE WORLD MY GAWD!

Wonderful interview. I really can’t wait for the full thing. Who cares that she waited til her album was dropping to talk about it. AND? This is showbiz and that’s the way celebrity works. She’s talking about it now because she CAN’T not talk about and release her album. No media outlet would let her do that.

……. @ Go- Hard - Well it isnt No.1 on my itunes.lol

………Rihanna could have spoken months ago, so it seems she is using this to grab
………publicity for her album and thats such a shame because domestic violence is
………a very serious issue.

………And how on earth can she think she is a role model for young women?
……… What has she done for D.V victims? Nothing! Guns tatoo on your body,
………..walks around the street with tits and bum out…NEXT!

COME ON Y’ALL ARE KILLING ME!
I’M A MAN AND I HAVE HAD WOMEN GET PHYSICAL WITH ME BEFORE TOO. I HAVE DATED SOME CRAZY WOMEN IN THE PAST. YOU KNOW WHAT I DID? I HELD THEM OR PINNED THEM DOWN UNTIL THEY CALMED THE HELL DOWN OR JUST GOT TOO TIRED TO KEEP KICKING AND ACTING A FOOL. I COULD SEE IF CHRIS WAS DATING QUEEN LATIFAH OR SOMETHING I COULD UNDERSTAND HOW THAT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE BUT RIHANNA?????? LITTLE SKINNY A$$ RIHANNA?????? HE COULDN’T HOLD HER DOWN OR GET AWAY? WE KNOW THE NICCA IS IN SHAPE.

I can understand the embarrasment she felt… i’ve never been abused but i was lied to by a person i loved and trusted… i it took me close to a year to tell around me people exactly how he played me for a fool… it was just easier to forget and pretend that i am fine… which is clearly what she tried to do the past 9 months… she wanted to forget… she was in pain…

“Eff love…come out of the situation and look at it in third person…for what it really is. Love is so blind”

Powerful words from RiRi! I’m so proud of this young lady. Alot of young women are struggling…and because they are in love it’s hard to see what their going through. The wrong love can be very blinding and misleading. Look at your situation as a person standing on the outside. Your judgement will be alot better ladies (and men).

she rehearsed well. m proud for her

MY QUESTION IS….HOW DID THE ARGUMENT START? HOW WAS IT PROVOKED?

MAN, I’M DONE WITH THIS SITUATION…ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS…EVERYONE NEEDS TO KEEP THEIR HANDS TO THEMSELVES…MEN AND WOMEN!!!

BOTH OF THEM ARE GUILTY OF BEING VIOLENT…AND CHRIS CAN’T COUNTERATTACK CAUSE IT WILL MAKE HIM LOOK WORSE! HOT MESS ALL AROUND

since she knows she’s influencial why don’t her lyrics live up 2 dat????? puulleeeeezz. m so over her NEXT!!!!!!

@ CRAMPED
Uhh actually NO it’s not a shame. SHE IS STILL SHINING THE LIGHT ON A SERIOUS PROBLEM no matter what the reason is. Who cares if it helps her to sell a few more thousand cd’s? PEOPLE WHO DON’T LIKE HER WON’T BUY HER CD WHETHER SHE DOES AN INTERVIEW OR NOT..Duh! So what if she uses the publicity of a NEGATIVE AND TURNS IT INTO A POSITIVE? What the heck is wrong with that? SHE IS STILL SAVING SOMEONE’S LIFE. There is a woman somewhere in the world that saw this interview today and DECIDED TO GET OUT all because of hearing Rihanna’s words. She deserves to come out on top after all she has been through.

@ REMI
So what do you want her to START SINGING GOSPEL MUSIC NOW? Noooo sorry she is not a FAKE like that.

SO LET’S JUST SAY RIHANNA HAD SAID “YES I SLAPPED THE SH!T OUT OF CHRIS” WOULD THAT MAKE IT OK THAT HE BEAT HER THE WAY HE DID? HE DIDN’T OVERREACT JUST A LITTLE BIT?

People are getting mad saying she’s throwing him under the bus. Chris did his interview first, he had the opportunity to let it all hang out, but he chose not to say much, now you all mad at rihanna. Maybe he was not trying to protect her as we all thought. Maybe he just didn’t want to really give a detail by detail account of how he went in on ri ri, so it was convinient for him to just say for her privacy I won’t get into details.

WHAT HAS CHRIS BROWN DONE FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS? I DON’T HEAR ANYONE ASKING THAT QUESTION.

wow ppl kill me

maybe she should’ve had her mommy & lawyer present..

then she would appear more truthfull..

i dont get ppl sayin she’s lyin or this is for promotion..

she got her ass whooped.. not a slap.. not a shakin.. chrissy gave her the biz..

his lookin like a dum ass.. cant talk for ish..doin all these interviews sayin nothin..

what can ppl learn from him.. what can lil boys learn.. he needs to do a real interview tell the truth & that will set him free..

im rootin for the both of them.. they’re young black talented kids but u gotta be authentic.. her interview seems authentic from the heart.. his he could barely speak..

idk.. learn sumin from this kids.. walk away the 1st time fuck love..

………….So lemme get this str8, her decision to leave was based on embarassment
…………and her image/ “role model” position. Ummmm….yeah.

…………So I’m the only 1 who believes that Rihanna and CB are still f*@%king???

…………And CONGRATS to Riri for being #1 on Itunes

YEaa you’re rolmodel when it fits you when you want.. if you walk halfnaked than you don’t talk about rolmodel.. I never have liked Rihana and after this interview even less.. she’s just like those chocolate figures, beautifull from the outside but hollow from the inside.. She really has a speaking disability.. and this girls want to act?? Just keep being pretty cause that’s all your good for..

FUCK RHIANNA LYING ASS SHE JUST THREW CHRIS UNDER THE BUS..SHES SUCH A BIITCH Y IS SHE LYING SHE KNOWS SHE HIT CHRIS

CHRIS U SHUD HAVE JUST TOLD THE WHOLE TRUTH DIS BIITCH DNT CARE BOUT YOU.

While I do believe that she is hurt and that she needs to speak out about the situation…..I also feel like she is just promoting her album. Even though I dont like her one bit I’m glad she is out of the relationship but I still support Chris and I definitely will be picking up Graffiti!!!!!!

She rehearsed before this interview..she even gave stats on how many times women get beat before they leave…im a huge chris brown fan…team CB all the way

****I wonder if she going to come out and said how many times she kicked his butt.
*****You were not the only woman who got their behing kicked in public….
******I am not going to bother to watch it………

if rihanna really wanted to throw chris under the bus trust he would not be picking up trash in virginia right now! she kept him out of jail and i believe although she is still hurt from this situation she still loves chris and he loves her. hopefully they can rebuild their friendship.

Its saddens me to hear the negativity that comes out of some your mouth when it comes to dissing Rihanna and siding with CB…this is REAL life…I don’t give a damn whether it was said today or the day of the album release…it was something that needed to be said…and the sad part of this whole ordeal is that it is young girls that are the leaders of this negative campaign against Rihanna…many of you are insecure and unhappy in your lives and feel the need to bring those negative vibes on to others. You need to go on your knees and pray because something is seriously wrong with you!

This is such a BS interview. She’s playing your fools who actually thinks she innocent of course she’s hit him it was two way abuse. A woman does not get a free pass to abuse just like a man does not get one. White folks and Oprah has lynched this young man without a rope. Give him a chance to redeem himself. She will be back in the news within the next two years with the same mess some other guy because she has a problem.

well good for her, from a neutral standpoint this is just an interview from her side of the point, Chris told it from his, why can’t she tell it from hers, I don’t know why everyone bashing her for that.

You know, this is exactly why it should be ILLEGAL for photographers to photograph pictures of celebs, magazines/blogs to publish this pictures, and for mags/blogs to report or gossip about a celeb’s PERSONAL LIFE! This whole story got out of control. I don’t think that it’s right that Rihanna gets all of this praise and glory just because she’s a famous singer. If it had been a normal person, no one would’ve even cared! Plus, why aren’t people so concerned about all of these GUN and DUI charges that many celebs/singers/and rappers are facing? Britney Spears almost dropped her baby and drove with her baby in her lap a few years ago, and I don’t hear people still talking about how she could’ve killed her baby. It seems like you can get away with anything but HITTING a woman, which is ridiculous.

I don’t condone what Chris did, but something still seems fishy. Why isn’t it that no one cares that she THREW A BOTTLE AND FOUGHT HER BROTHERS as a teenager? Why isn’t anyone still talking about that? So you mean to tell me that she never hit Chris or yelled all up in his face? I’m not saying she’s to blame, but no one just goes off like that. Like I said, she may not hit him but provoked him and that’s wrong too. I think it’s horrible that she’s throwing him under the bus when he was careful not to say anything negative about her and he’s trying to get himself together. People are acting like he can never live his life no matter what! I’m no Chris Brown fan, but I do support him. If Chris is reading this, you should’ve or are going to have to give another interview and tell what really happened. Tell about the arguments y’all had and put her dirty business out there as well.

We shouldn’t even be discussing this. This is so embarrassing and they should’ve sued the media! How dare they put these singers’ business out there like that for people to judge??? I wonder why they aren’t suing?

—— F-LOVE!

I read a few of the comments but stopped when people started “bashing” her.
I don’t know why I “defend” her most of the time seeing as I barely like her but it get’s annoying when people talk this way about her.

Like saying she needs her a** whooped again is so wrong it’s not even funny. I’m sure if a relative of yours went through this you would not react too kindly if someone said that about them. Have some sense and stop being immature.

I’ve never been abused and I don’t think I know anyone who has been abused but me personally, I can like “disconnect” from people quite easily. Like I know a lot of women stay because they “love him” but me, I could care less about love afterwards. Once a guy lays a hand on me, I’d be gone .. for good.

Didn’t think the interview would be this serious - I wish I could watch GMA but I have an early class tomorrow so I’ma miss it! But there is suppose to be a Chris Brown interview with MTV tomorrow (I think it’s tomorrow) as well .. he’s the one who’s looking for attention.

And people need to stop being stupid .. tryna call her out for coming out now because her album is going to drop. That’s just the way it works - it’s not right but that’s what happens so I could care less. Don’t know why people care so much ..

Now can we all move on?

I guess we should all be concerned about Chris throwing dishes at his mom oh and the incident in Germany or some place overseas. Black people kill me when they want to protect our own sometimes it’s okay to say yeah he did it.

I wish Rihanna had spoken about this earlier, but better late than never. She is going to say on the second part of the interview that Chris beat and put her in a chokehold NINE times!

If Chris wants to salvage his career, and any future relationship potential, he needs to be in therapy and working on himself right now and for the next several years. That is the only way he can avoid being a repeat offender. The next time he does this (and without professional help there WILL be a next time), he will GO TO JAIL. Believe it. It happened to Iron Mike and it can happen to Chris Brown. Chris is young so if he works on himself now he can avoid a lifetime of unhappiness.

For anyone to say Rihanna might have done something to provoke Chris into hitting her, think about HOW MANY TIMES he did this to her. No matter what she did, there’s no excuse for him being that violent with her.

Most of you don’t understand the addiction part of these relationships. Women get addicted to sweet man and are terrified of the sick and violent man. When he turns from Dr. Jeykyll into Mr. Hyde you don’t know who you are dealing with. Then he turns back into Mr. Nice Guy, full of love and remorse, and you are in love again.

It doesn’t matter if you have kids or money. It’s not easy to walk away from the guy who is super charming, sweet and loving a lot of the time even if he does turn into a monster. You don’t want to believe that the monster is real or part of who he really is.

If you haven’t walked down the road yourself, you don’t know the fear and manipulation abusive men use to hold onto their VICTIMS. Yes, Rihanna is the VICTIM and Chris is the CRIMINAL. This was A CRIME. No matter how you want to sugar coat it, domestic violence is a CRIMINAL OFFENSE. PERIOD.

Good for Rihanna for speaking up. Women, old, young and in between, listen up! He will not get any better without professional help, so get out NOW, before you waste more time and have more to regret, and while you are still alive.

Remember Nicole Simpson? She got out and still got killed and OJ got away with murder! The first time a man starts trying to control you or acts jealous over something silly, get out! Then you won’t have to become a statistic later.

Love doesn’t hurt!

Samantha you are stupid