Rihanna sat with “20/20″ for an interview airing this Friday to describe that painful evening when her then boyfriend Chris Brown beat her till she was “battered, bleeding, swollen in [her] face” and emotionally torn.
She said all she kept thinking was, “When is it going to stop? When is it going to stop? He had no soul in his eyes. Just blank. He was clearly blacked-out. There was no person when I looked at him.”
The fight, she said, started when Brown received a text message from another woman while they were driving away from a Grammy Awards party.
“I caught him in a lie, and he wouldn’t tell the truth. And I wouldn’t drop it,” Rihanna told Diane Sawyer in the interview, portions of which aired Friday morning on “Good Morning America.”
“I couldn’t take that he kept lying to me, and he couldn’t take that I wouldn’t drop it. … It escalated into him being violent towards me. And it was ugly.”
How ugly? “I was battered, I was bleeding, I was swollen in my face,” she said.
She felt trapped. “My next option was to get out of the car and walk, start walking in a gown and a bloody face,” she said. “I didn’t have a plan. That whole night was not part of my plan.”
“Love doesn’t go away right away,” she says. “He didn’t accept that very well. Obviously he didn’t want us to be apart. But I had to make a decision for me.”
Does she hate Brown now? “No, I don’t hate him at all,” she said. “I actually love and care about him. I want him to do well, have a great career, have a great life and grow up. And just take this as something you had to go through to grow up and learn.”
In despite of her foolishly taking him back after the initial “break up” and beating, she was still strong enough to leave it at the end and speak out to the public about a very personal affair. No woman, man, young or old should ever suffer domestic abuse, from no one. People do not have the right to physically or emotional harm another person for whatever reason they feel is appropriate. Self defense is one thing but in most cases of domestic abuse, it’s out of sheer uncontrollable rage within the person.
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