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."
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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."
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When I'm in a relationship with a man, I like to know that the reason he doesn't beat me to within an inch of my life is his fear of retribution instead of, idk, any kind of fundamental human decency.
IIRC her father was completely onboard for her and Chris to get back together.
She should have just pulled a TSwift: leave the relationship and write a song about it.
I think this is the classic cycle of abuse. So sad.
Yea, Bobby was abusive but Whitney was too and most people didn't find out till after their divorce that Whitney is partly why Bobby was so fucked up on drugs. Whitney was the driver of a lot of emotional trauma in that relationship. I think they had a bad relationship before, that was definitely at least emotionally and verbally abusive. Then he beat her, and things had to change. We all know both of their PR teams assumed it'd be a cover up but Rih it was too late once the cops came. Some people are so used to those dynamics in a relationship they assume they're not being loved if they don't get it.
Right now, all we've seen is that Chris is this abusive asshole to her and Frank Ocean. That's all we have to judge him on. But somehow, she appears to think that he's changed and we should think differently of him now.
I wonder how sympathetic things will be the next time he fucks up and I really hope they don't have kids.
seems like a pretty typical thought in the cycle of abuse, right? so if he does ever lay hands on her again, she's going to be more concerned with how bad he feels about it, and what she did to make him stoop to that terrible level he never wanted to be at again, then she will be concerned about her own well being.
She won't be kind.
I know couples will get back together after horrible shit but I just worry for her. And any girl I know who's been treated badly who then decides to get back with the guy. I bet they'll break up now that he's spiralling and fighting people over parking spaces. He CLEARLY has anger problems and unless he gets in some therapy and surrounds himself with good people rather than his posse I don't see him going anywhere good.
/therapisttalk