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This morning, Good Morning America aired a clip of Rihanna sitting down to talk to Diane Sawyer about the assault that she endured from ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. A full interview will be aired on 20/20 tomorrow on ABC.
It was devastating to see her talk about it. She says, “This happened to me and it can happen to anybody. There are a lot of women who’ve experienced what I did. But not in the public. So, it made it really difficult. I just felt like ‘Oh my god. There goes my little bit of privacy.’ Just exposed. It’s something that nobody wants anybody to know. So here I am with the whole world knowing.”
Diane asked Rihanna why she would be ashamed, to which she said, “Because I didn’t want people to think that that’s the kind of person I fell in love with. That’s embarrassing. That’s embarrassing that that’s the type of person I fell in love with. So far in love, so unconditional that I went back.”
Rihanna also revealed that it took her eight or nine times of abuse before leaving. She then said, “That’s not what I want to teach people.
She also said that people shouldn’t hold her on such a high pedestal, That she is a human being who makes mistakes. She reveals, “You start lying to yourself. The minute the physical wounds go away – you want this thing to go away. This is a memory you don’t want to have ever again.”
She then fought back tears as she spoke about the moment she realized that going back to Chris could mean that young girls who look up to her, could go back to an abusive boyfriend. “Even if Chris never hit me again, who’s to say that their boyfriend won’t?”
So sad. I’m so proud of her for having the courage to talk about this on television the way she has. Don’t forget to tune in tomorrow night on 20/20 to see a full interview.