8:59 am - 01/30/2013
Rihanna on Chris Brown: 'We Know Exactly What We Have Now'
'Even if it's a mistake, it's my mistake,' the pop star tells Rolling Stone
Rihanna has opened up like never before about getting back together with her ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown, and what it means for her public image. "I decided it was more important for me to be happy," she tells contributing editor Josh Eells in the new issue of Rolling Stone, out Friday, January 31st. "I wasn't going to let anybody's opinion get in the way of that. Even if it's a mistake, it's my mistake. After being tormented for so many years, being angry and dark, I'd rather just live my truth and take the backlash. I can handle it."
The couple's public reconciliation comes less than four years since Brown assaulted Rihanna the night before the 2009 Grammy Awards. Brown plead guilty to assault and performed community service, but he remains on probation. "When you add up the pieces from the outside, it's not the cutest puzzle in the world," Rihanna says. "You see us walking somewhere, driving somewhere, in the studio, in the club, and you think you know. But it's different now. We don't have those types of arguments anymore. We talk about shit. We value each other. We know exactly what we have now, and we don't want to lose that."
And Rihanna says that if Brown were ever to display a hint of his past behavior towards her, she is ready to walk. "He doesn't have the luxury of fucking up again," she says. "That's just not an option. I can't say that nothing else will ever go wrong. But I'm pretty solid in the knowing that he's disgusted by that. And I wouldn't have gone this far if I ever thought that was a possibility."
Rolling Stone
Rihanna has opened up like never before about getting back together with her ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown, and what it means for her public image. "I decided it was more important for me to be happy," she tells contributing editor Josh Eells in the new issue of Rolling Stone, out Friday, January 31st. "I wasn't going to let anybody's opinion get in the way of that. Even if it's a mistake, it's my mistake. After being tormented for so many years, being angry and dark, I'd rather just live my truth and take the backlash. I can handle it."
The couple's public reconciliation comes less than four years since Brown assaulted Rihanna the night before the 2009 Grammy Awards. Brown plead guilty to assault and performed community service, but he remains on probation. "When you add up the pieces from the outside, it's not the cutest puzzle in the world," Rihanna says. "You see us walking somewhere, driving somewhere, in the studio, in the club, and you think you know. But it's different now. We don't have those types of arguments anymore. We talk about shit. We value each other. We know exactly what we have now, and we don't want to lose that."
And Rihanna says that if Brown were ever to display a hint of his past behavior towards her, she is ready to walk. "He doesn't have the luxury of fucking up again," she says. "That's just not an option. I can't say that nothing else will ever go wrong. But I'm pretty solid in the knowing that he's disgusted by that. And I wouldn't have gone this far if I ever thought that was a possibility."
Rolling Stone
I mean, I'm not trying to white knight CB by any means, but I feel like at this point, the media will only talk about him when he does something bad. Rihanna knows him better than most, and if she can forgive him, then we as a society need to stop bashing him every time a picture of him pulls up on the internet.
It's just a bit silly now, tbh.
Edited at 2013-01-30 03:28 pm (UTC)
Surely he can handle dissenting industry insiders and articles.
What I was saying in that comment was that at this point, the media will only focus on the bad things he does, and if and when he tries to do good things(which will "never" happen, but that's another argument), it will be overshadowed by negative media attention, so he's probably at a point where he doesn't give a shit(even more so than now.).
TL;DR - CB doesn't affect the money in my purse or the penis in my mouth, so he can do as he pleases.
But, I have defended his right to work and perform before, and I can't really clump it all together because I like his music. I really do. When he makes a new song and it's good and he gets awarded for it, I can't do anything but shrug about it because I think it's deserved. That doesn't mean he's not fucking horrible in all other aspects of his life and no one has to move on from that until he does.
what a wonderful basis for a relationship
All that says to me tbh is he won't hit her where it shows and he's still emotionally manipulative
Wow, man. That's like, so deep and shit. LOL
I really hope she dumps his ass.
It really was shit.