Rihanna on Chris Brown: We Became "Dangerous" for Each Other

Us Magazine - November 4, 2009 10:42 AM PST
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In her upcoming ABC News interview, Rihanna says Chris Brown was "definitely my first big love" but their relationship slowly became self-destructive.

"The more in love we became, the more dangerous we became for each other," the singer, 21, tells ABC News' Diane Sawyer in the sit-down airing Thursday on ABC's Good Morning America and Friday on 20/20.

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In August, Brown, 20, was sentenced to five years of probation, six months of community service and one year of domestic violence counseling for leaving her bruised and bloody the night before the Grammy Awards.

This happened to me ... it can happen to anyone," Rihanna tells Sawyer.

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The singer also reflects on her difficult year in December's Glamour.

"I felt like I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day," Rihanna says. "It was like, What, there are helicopters circling my house? There are 100 people in my cul-de-sac? What do you mean, I can't go back home?"

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She says that having a photo of her surface on the Internet after Brown's attack was "humiliating."

"That is not a photo you would show to anybody," she says. "I felt completely taken advantage of. I felt like people were making it into a fun topic on the Internet, and it's my life."

Since the incident, she says she has relied on her family and on God.

"My friends and family have been extremely supportive, and everyone has been there for me. But at some point you are there alone. It's a lonely place to be -- no one can understand," she says. "That's when you get close to God."

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  • Diana
    I love both of them... I admitt Chris should have never hit Rihanna but she knows they both had a history of hitting eachother and like she said on her interview people who are blaming her for this are ingnorent, Well true but Rihanna should aswell be seen as a domestic violater since she has hit Chris Brown in the past but she is looked at as the victim! I think both need help!!!
    report abuseposted November 9, 2009 11:28 AM PST
  • A63
    Some of you people are true Morons...Chris was charged and convicted...Case Closed. They should put him in a cell and let BuhBuh have a crack at him.
    report abuseposted November 5, 2009 6:30 AM PST
  • Jim
    AHHHHH ! **S*T*O*P** ALL THIS "OPRAH" CRAP COMMENTS! YOU PEOPLE SAYING "STUNNED; GIVE HER TIME..." WIPE THE TEAR FROM MY EYE! OR "AKELIA; LET HER FIND HER WAY...."! AHHHHHHHHH ORCA-WINDFREE ON "OMG!"
    report abuseposted November 4, 2009 12:03 PM PST
  • Jim
    THE ONLY "DANGEROUS WAS IF "CHRIS CLOWN" STUCK HIS "HEAD" BETWEEN RIRI'Z THIGH'Z ! PICTURE THIS , RIRI SNEEZED AND THE CLOWN'Z HEAD EXPLODES, "BAAAAAAM"!HA,HA,HA, CLOWN JOKE!
    report abuseposted November 4, 2009 11:56 AM PST
  • lil chelle
    thats what i hate.the media and plus i think their relationship turned deadly because of jealousy and the media always up in people business u cant get privacy.i think she is speaking out now because she tired of hearing the same story and the media and everyone else all up in her face.she just speaking out to letting this bad case go to the grave and move on with their lives and take new paths.
    report abuseposted November 4, 2009 11:22 AM PST
  • lil chelle
    thats what i hate.the media and plus i think their relationship turned deadly because of jealousy and the media always up in people business u cant get privacy.i think she is speaking out now because she tired of hearing the same story and the media and everyone else all up in her face.she just speaking out to letting this bad case go to the grave and move on with their lives and take new paths.
    report abuseposted November 4, 2009 11:22 AM PST
  • Nicky
    Jaz-----This is a few paragraphs about a longer interview that was conducted for television that's airing on a prime time 'news' program. You should judge her on all of her words, not the few that this author chose to include in his piece.
    report abuseposted November 4, 2009 11:18 AM PST
  • lil chelle
    she made a big mistake by goin back to him after what he did. i still love and am a big fan of both of them and all ways will be.what i hate is that they make chris brown,domestic violence,making seem more like a bad guy and there where plenty of men,celebs, who abused their wives and girlfriends, like terrence howard, and they didnt make their cases seem really bad, but they did it to chris.
    report abuseposted November 4, 2009 11:17 AM PST
  • Akelia
    let her find her way in all of this situation.and she is right about being humiliated on the internet..its no one else's business its her life and only she should be able too spread pictures and stuff around about her self..she doesn't need anybody too help her with that...
    report abuseposted November 4, 2009 11:17 AM PST
  • Akelia
    let her find her way in all of this situation.and she is right about being humiliated on the internet..its no one else's business its her life and only she should be able too spread pictures and stuff around about her self..she doesn't need anybody too help her with that...
    report abuseposted November 4, 2009 11:17 AM PST
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