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November 5, 2009 Preview: Rihanna’s 20/20 Interview
Love muffins, below is the preview for Rihanna’s emotional interview with Diane Sawyer. The full interview will premiere tomorrow on 20/20 at 10pm EST. For the first time Rihanna actually speaks out on the incident and from what I can tell she’s going to be talking pretty openly. It’s so heartbreaking to watch…
On a brighter note, check out Rihanna’s new promo pic after the interview! She looks incredibly hot!
Kelsey
November 5, 2009 at 10:34 am
A lot of people are attacking her for just now speaking about the incident and saying she’s just doing it for record sales. But people fail to realize she was BEATEN….who just wants to come out in the public and talk about it, the fact that it happened is beyond embarrassing and i wouldn’t want to tell ppl about it either. She was the victim, and if you can’t tell by this interview, that this is a serious subject then you should re-evaluate yourself. This is far beyond Chris Brown record sales vs. Rihanna record sales.
The young girls out there, really need to see this, cuz they are the main ones brushing off abuse from their bf’s and going back.
BTW, And she was going to HAVE to speak at some point, if she wanted to come back out into the public and get back in the music scene.
Joe
November 5, 2009 at 10:49 am
This was so difficult to watch. I’m glad to hear her side and that she made the decision to leave because of the impact it would have for other young girls going through the same thing. I cannot see myself supporting Chris anytime soon. I never have in the pass but seeing this has only furthered my disgust in him. I wish he would have been more sincere with his apology and came out with it much sooner.
lovey
November 5, 2009 at 11:08 am
this is the result of MUCH influence by Jay-Z and anyone else he could get to talk some sense into her. She WAS back with Chris Brown immediately following that beating. she would have stayed had she not been talked to consistently. she probably felt the threat of losing her career looming large as well…
good for her for breaking free finally
Sharon
November 5, 2009 at 11:46 am
My mother was beaten everyday by my father growing up. When she finally left him after 8yrs of marriage i finally started living again. I’ve to say i know about abuse and how it can affect a woman. I was never hit by my father but it affected my relationships with men for a long time because i was always afraid that if i spoke i’d get hit. I’m glad rihanna left him and i hope she can move past this. I wish her all the best.anyone who says she’s speaking out because of record sales clearly has never gone through abuse.
Spicy Goddess
November 5, 2009 at 2:51 pm
OMG…. I really didn’t realize Ri would delve that deep into the situation…. KUDOS to Miss Rihanna…she really spoke the TRUTH and hopefully alot of these young women who believe physical/emotional abuse means love…. hopefully, they will realize that it is NOT love!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cHaZY
November 5, 2009 at 5:21 pm
She looks hot when the camera zooms out, but just her face looks like a little puppy … I know this is a hard thing to go through but I the way she talks is … just silly …
I am so sad that she had to go through something like this, but I hope it encourages people …
Elle'
November 5, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Wow. This is heartbreaking to watch. I understand her not wanting to be in her private life but I am so happy she left this situation!
Brownstone
November 5, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Kudos to Ri RI for speaking out …she had to at some point , she could not just bring back out music etc and sweep this situation under a rug, i am from Barbados, and we had heard rumours for a while that he was hitting her when while they were here.
No man has ever hit me including my father, all i know its just wrong for a man to put his hands on a woman and a woman to hit a man but it is dead ass wrong how he headloack her punched her and bit her …he thought he was hitting a man or what, but its time to put it behind and move on with here life as she is doing.
Its not a good look for him when he denied hitting her before but i wish them both the best as they are both very young.
love yah RiRi
mzmusicbusiness
November 5, 2009 at 9:06 pm
its crazy bcuz – Chris Brown and Rihanna both have interviews premiring tomorrow – CB is on MTV @ 6EST . Chris Brown is an amazinq person ! He made a mistake . Honestly – i know it was wronq and so does Chris ;
I will continue to support him regaurdless of what everyone says about him .
Derek De Vine
November 6, 2009 at 12:16 am
Rihanna is a STRONG women, I applaud her for talking about the infamous situation for others to learn from.
O-K sure...
November 6, 2009 at 2:52 am
very interesting info i just read on another gossip site and for once some other people are using their common sense….
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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
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finally…
cherika
November 6, 2009 at 11:34 am
for once someone has spoke about this situation between them two. in the beginning i thought that both were wrong not to come out and speak about it, more so Rihanna because she was the victim and because she a superstar.
i thank her for telling us, but helping all the women around the world understand that when its time to leave; leave. thats being a great role model for me. thank you
Shannon Cooper
November 16, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Everyone should see this as a wake up call!!!!!!!! I’m so sick of everyone talking about how abused women need to leave the man, and not paying any attention on how to stop the violence before it starts! That man will just be some other poor girl’s problem in the long run. This is one of the saddest things that I have dealt with growing up. I always loved my father and because of what he did to my mom, he was always made out to be a monster. Even when he bettered himself, he was never able to live it down. I’m not saying that it was ok, because IT WASN’T!!!! But I lost my father and my respect for my family, because I couldn’t understand my love for him. My mission is to help people see that {love is respect} and that instead of telling the women or man to just leave, we need to start PREVENTING it from happening, (so couples know how to treat eachother) and so (children will stop lossing their much needed fathers!!!!!!!!!!)(or mothers!!!!!!!!!!!!!)