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Rihanna speaks about her Brown beating

By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 1 November 2010

Rihanna has spoken in more detail about her beating at the hands of popular R&B thug-meister Chris Brown following a pre-Grammy Awards party back in early 2009. She tells Marie Claire magazine in a new interview that she felt like “an empty vessel” after then boyfriend Brown beat her unconscious, but that with hindsight she feels the altercation has made her a better person, if only by abruptly ending her relationship with the pop star wife-beater. 

She tells the magazine: “I couldn’t have been the woman I am, the friend, or the sister or the artist, or the role model I am today if I didn’t go through what I went through. It’s scary; you just lose touch of everything that you love and everything that you would normally do; how you would dress or how you would say something. I needed that wake-up call in my life. That was the only way I would have gotten out of that relationship”. 

She adds that although her split from Brown was traumatic at the time, she quickly got over the ordeal. She continues: “I remember waking up one day and I knew I was over it. I didn’t feel lonely. I felt like I wanted to get up and be in the world – that was a great, great feeling. Once you’re back on your feet… if you ever make it back on your feet, that’s the ultimate achievement”. 

Meanwhile, the pop thug himself also recently told reporters he was now in a different, more peaceful, happier place since the big beating up of Rihanna. Talking to reporters at a recent GQ event in New York, Brown said: “Everything’s good, I’m definitely – me personally and mentally – I’m a great guy now. Definitely just a person who’s promoting positivity all the time, so that’s just me. New music coming real soon, I’m in the studio, back and forth, continuously, just having fun”.